随着国际化进程的日益加快，我国对外科技交流的层次和规模也不断提升，对国际化、复合应用型人才的需求越来越迫切。《大学英语课程教学要求》对学有余力、英语基础较好的大学生设置了较高要求和更高要求。根据此教学要求，张丽、李京南等组织一线骨干教师重新修订编写了《大学英语阅读教程》(4)，并更名为《大学英语阅读教程(科技篇第2版大学英语立体化网络化系列教材十二五普通高等教育本科国家级规划教材)》，目标在于为基础较好的学生提供学习素材和策略指导，帮助他们进一步提高科技类英语文章阅读能力，为阅读原版科技文献打下良好语言基础。

张丽、李京南主编的《大学英语阅读教程（科技篇第2版大学英语立体化网络化系列教材十二五普通高等教育本科国家级规划教材）》选取国际主流科技期刊的文章为主要素材，以阅读策略和技巧训练贯穿全书，通过“读”“讲”“练”有机结合，既注重以内容为基础，帮助学生掌握和积累科技英语词汇和语篇知识，又重视语言阅读策略和应用能力的培养。

《大学英语阅读教程（科技篇第2版大学英语立体化网络化系列教材十二五普通高等教育本科国家级规划教材）》可供高等学校非英语专业二年级本科生作为四级后选修课教材使用，也适用于大学和研究生阶段英语阅读类的课程，或供水平相当的英语爱好者自学使用。

Lesson 1 What Is Science?

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Lesson 2 Ignorance and Science

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Lesson 3 An Ocean of Data

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Lesson 4 Data Scientist

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Lesson 5 How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

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Lesson 6 Social Media Offers Opportunities and Challenges

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Lesson 7 Tuning in to the Universe

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Lesson 8 A Distant Glimpse of Alien Life

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Lesson 9 The Solar Energy

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Lesson 10 Bioenergies

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Lesson 11 A Decade on from Dolly

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Lesson 12 Gene Therapy Helps Depressed Mice

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Lesson 13 Are Languages Shaped by Culture or Cognition?

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Lesson 14 Talk of the Tone

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Lesson 15 Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer

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Lesson 16 The Solution to the Innovator's Dilemma

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