新21世紀大學英語．快速閱讀(第三冊)（簡體書）

《新21世紀大學英語快速閱讀(第3冊)》為普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規劃教材,新21世紀大學英語系列之一。

Unit 1
Reading 1 Photographing History
Reading 2 John F. Kennedy Jr.:What Would He Have Made of His Life?
Reading 3 The San Francisco Earthquake

Unit 2
Reading 1 Nursery School Children Gone Online
Reading 2 CAI Programs
Reading 3 Online Education: A Virtual Boom

Unit 3
Reading 1 American Men Don't Cry
Reading 2 Gender Differences in Friendship
Reading 3 Men and Women: Do They Speak the Same Language?

Unit 4
Reading 1 Variation in Language
Reading 2 Early Foreign Language Education
Reading 3 English Emerging as World Language

Unit 5
Reading 1 Pablita Velarde: Artist Who Led the Way
Reading 2 George Gershwin: A Tribute to America's Greatest Composer
Reading 3 The Functions and Effects of Music

Unit 6
Reading 1 Italy Eyes Concept of Selling Sun's Energy
Reading 2 Is Anybody out There?
Reading 3 The Priceless Feeling: Weightless Above the Atlantic Ocean

Unit 7
Reading 1 Why a Liberal Arts Major Makes Business Sense
Reading 2 American Schools and Minority Students
Reading 3 BA '85: The Unlucky Journey of a Young Classicist-Cum-Clerk

Unit 8
Reading 1 Too Fabulous for Marriage?
Reading 2 Money Is a Sign
Reading 3 My Father's Gift of Magic

Appendix
Key to Exercises

Brady's assistants adjusted the reflectors that kept shadows from appearing on the sitter's face. Then they brought up the head and body clamps. Taking a picture in those days wasn't done in an instant, as it is today. Even with good light, the subject had to stand perfectly still for many seconds.To make sure Lincoln's head wouldn't move, they would tighten an iron clamp around the back of his head where it wouldn't show. A second clamp would hold his back.
But here was a problem Brady hadn't encountered before. Lincoln was so tall that the adjustable stand on which the head clamp rested wouldn't reach high enough. They all smiled at this. Lincoln was used to jokes about his height. He may have told one while an assistant looked for a stool to set the head clamp on. The camera was moved forward a bit. The photograph would have to show Lincoln from the knees upward to keep the stool out of the picture.
Perhaps the delay or the false backdrop made Lincoln grow stiff and nervous as the camera was readied. The formal setting may have seemed out of place to him. Brady later recalled, "I had great trouble making a natural picture."
Brady's assistant lifted the black cloth on the back of the camera and ducked under it. He peered at the upside-down image of Lincoln that the lens projected onto the ground glass. Brady's eyes were not as good as they once were. He probably wouldn't have done the actual photographing himself. A number of skilled operators did the daily work of the busy gallery.
The operator wasn't quite pleased. Lincoln had a long neck that looked bony on the ground glass.Brady suggested Lincoln adjust his collar a little. Lincoln knew what Brady meant. "Ah, I see you want to shorten my neck," Lincoln said with a smile. The photographer and the politician looked at each other. "That's just it," Brady said. Both men laughed.