江涛、肖敏主编的《考研英语阅读题源(Ⅲ)》在选文上做到了去粗取精，紧跟考研英语阅读命题的趋势，主要着眼于近几年的《麦肯锡季刊》、《科学美国人》、《评论杂志》、《科学》、《美国新闻与世界报道》、《商业周刊》这几本国外优秀杂志，从中精选出符合考研英语阅读题型的文章，并收录了近年来从这几本报刊中节选后的考研英语阅读真题。

本书为《考研英语阅读题源(Ⅲ)》(科学美国人分册)。本书根据考研英语阅读真题的题材类型，从各个层面选择文章，分为社会类、文教类、经济类、科技类和健康类五大类，每类各包含10篇文章，每篇文章又由题源文选、词汇注解、超纲单词、重点段落译文等板块构成，帮助考生学习、理解。

Social Class社会类

Passage One Napoleon's Revenge[2008年真题PartA，Text3]

Passage Two AridLandThirsty Crops

Passage Three Can SiRing Too Much Kill You？

Passage Four Does Modest Dress Among Arab-American

Women Promote Vitamin D Deficiency？

Passage Five Baby Come Back：USInfant Mortality

Ranking Falls

Passage Six Is Accessto Clean Water a Human Right？

Passage Seven Why Do Cleaning Product-Makers

Keep Most of Their Ingredients Secret？

Passage Eight A Phone Call from Morn Reduces Stress

as Well as a Hug

Passage Nine Babies’Sex Linked to Morns’Breakfast Calories

Passage Ten One’s Enough：People Who Donate a Kidney

Live Just as Long as Those Who Don’t

Culture and Education文教类

Passage One Intelligence Considered[2007年真题PartA,Text2】

Passage Two Music and Speech Share a Code for

Communicating Sadness in the Minor Third

Passage Three Using Virtual Worlds and Video Games to

Teach the Lessons ofReality

Passage Four Population Bomb Author’s Fix for Next

Extinction：Educate Women

Passage Five Start Science Sooner

Passage Six Last 0fTheir Kind：What Is Lost When

Cultures Die？

Passage Seven Reforming Genetics Instruction for

Middle Schoolers

Passage Eight Climate Change Equals Culture Change

in the Andes

Passage Nine Babies Bom Early Are More Likely to Have

Special Education Needs

Passage Ten Hearing the Music，Honing the Mind，

Economy经济类

Passage One Economics Nobel Awarded for Efforts to

Understand and Fight Unemployment

Passage Two Microsoft’s Ballmer to CES：Keep Investing

in Tech Despite Economic Woes

Passage Three Indonesia’s Palm Oil Economy Drives Human

Fortunes and Orangutan Misfortunes

Passage Four Asia Light Years Ahead of the USin Clean

Tech Investment--Financial and Economic

Consequences

Passage Five Can the Green Economy Survive in a Policy

Vacuum？

Passage Six Republicans Fighting for Bad Market

Practices

Passage Seven Rethinking the Global Money Supply

Passage Eight Extreme Weather Helps Drive Food Prices

to New Highs

Passage Nine USAsks World Bank to Stop Funding Coal-Fired

Power Plants in Developing Countries

Passage Ten Japan Economic Priority Is Supply Chain

Science and Technology科技类

Passage One Who’S Your Daddy？The Answer May Be

at the Drugstore[2009年真题Part A，Text 2】

Passage Two How to Preserve the Breadth ofLife on

the Planet

Passage Three A Bicycle Built for None：What Makes a

Riderless Bike Stable？

Passage Four Device Analyzes Radiation Exposure Through

Teeth and Nails

Passage Five Will a Highly Customized Shoe Help You

Run Better？

Passage six Automatic Auto：a Car That Ddves Itself

Passage Seven Easy Flier

Passage Eight Highway Robbery：Car Computer Controls

Could Be Vulnerable to Hackers

Passage Nine Electric Car Popularity May Depend

on Home Energy Management

Passage Ten How National Security Depends

on Better Lithium Barteries

Health健康类

Passage One Climate Change Extends Allergy Season

in North America

Passage Two How Significant Is the Impact of Ecofriendly

Organic Bedding and Clothing on a

Child’s Health？ 

Passage Three Wood Smoke Wafts up Health Concerns

Passage Four How Old Is Your Cancer？

Passage Five Can a Good Night’s Sleep Prevent a Cold？

Passage Six The Truth About Cell Phones and Cancer

Passage Seven Curing the Common Cold

Passage Eight Fear and Its Consequences：Why States

Should Get Tough with Vaccinations

Passage Nine Our Big Pig Problem

Passage Ten When Photos Are Painkiners