本书旨在提高英语语言能力的同时，通过阅读优秀的文章来拓宽视野，掌握技能，培养分析、综合和评价的思维能力。全书分为三章，每章均有5个单元，每个单元设定了三个学习目标并提供了三篇阅读文章，学习目标包括知识学习重点、语言学习重点和阅读、写作、翻译技巧；三篇文章分别为思考性阅读、应用型阅读及拓展阅读，每篇文章和技能介绍都配有相应的练习题。每个单元的最后还附有和学习、工作、技术相关的小技巧。本书的15个单元有阶段、有层次地覆盖了学习、工作、文化、科学和技术各个方面，题材丰富、内容精练。

前 言 科技的发展把世界的各个角落越来越紧密地联系在了一起，社会生活的方方面面都受到了来自不同文化的影响。21世纪的精英人才不仅仅要有扎实的专业知识、过硬的工作技能，还要具备优良的外语能力和文化理解能力。这一点对于软件行业的人才尤为重要。 信息产业是21世纪全球最重要的产业之一，充满了机遇和挑战。当今，我国的软件产业还处于人才匮乏的阶段。软件产品要想走出国门，与国际接轨，就需要既懂专业又懂管理，既能做基础工作又能做应用性工作的复合型人才。软件行业既具有全球化特点，又受到文化、地域、语言的影响，所以优秀的软件人才必须理解语言和文化对一个国家、一种产业和整个社会的影响。 本书不仅是一本语言学习的书，更要求读者通过学习语言和阅读优秀的文章来拓宽视野，掌握技能，培养分析、综合和评价的思维能力，从而学会如何把自己打造成一位更具有全球竞争力的优秀人才。 本书分为三章：Academic Success、Career Advancement和Science ＆ Technology。其中Academic Success（学术成功）强调学习能力的培养，学会如何成为一个优秀的学习者，不仅有益于在校的学习过程，更推动学习者自主地培养终身学习的能力；Career Advancement（职场进步）讲述在工作过程中那些不可或缺的能力培养，这些能力帮助读者更快、更好地适应职场环境；Science ＆ Technology（科学与技术）提供了科学研究和技术发展的前瞻，可以帮助读者学会探究未知领域、开阔学习者的思维，也为其未来选择工作研究的领域给予启示。 本书每章均有5个单元，每个单元设定了三个学习目标并提供了三篇阅读文章，学习目标包括知识学习重点、语言学习重点和阅读（第1章）、写作（第2章）、翻译（第3章）技巧；三篇文章分别为思考性阅读、应用型阅读及拓展阅读，每篇文章和技能介绍都配有相应的练习题。每个单元的最后还附有和学习、工作、技术相关的小技巧。本书的15个单元有阶段、有层次地覆盖了学习、工作、文化、科学和技术各个方面，题材丰富、内容精练。 本书不仅仅适用于学习者自主阅读，而且更适合在阅读后进行小组总结、分析、讨论及应用。每单元的拓展阅读部分精选了经典的文学作品和最新的科技文章，读者应该自主做好阅读笔记，并跟学习小组互换阅读心得。这项活动给予学习者极大的自由使用、发挥英语技能和自由思考的空间，真正做到反思性阅读。 本书可作为高级英语阅读、职场英语、商务英语、自学等的教材，可以帮助读者培养高级阅读能力、职场应用英语写作能力、翻译技巧、学习策略和学习技巧、行业沟通能力，掌握前沿科技信息。本书不仅适合软件专业高年级本科生或研究生，也适合其他理工科专业同等学历的学生使用，同时对有高级英语学习需求的在职人员的自学也有极大的帮助。 本书由多年工作在软件专业教学一线的优秀教授、副教授和讲师精心编制，编者们依据自己十余年的教学经验总结了学习者的学习能力和学习需求，结合21世纪优秀行业人才培养目标，采用了由目标-技能-内容-形式的分析方法，写成此书。 由于时间仓促和编者能力有限，本书难免有不足或者疏漏之处，欢迎广大读者和专业人士批评指正，以便再版时修订。 编 者 2016年9月于大连理工大学

Chapter One Academic Success Unit 1 Great Lectures 3 Part One：Read ＆ Think 5 Kennedy Inaugural Address 5 Part Two：Applied Skills 11 Nine Techniques to Delivering a Speech with Confidence 11 Part Three：Extended Reading 17 The Artist as a Booster of the Human Heart: 17 Tips for Academic Study 20 Top Ten Study Tips 20 Unit 2 Learning, a Lifelong Skill 21 Part One：Read ＆ Think 23 My MOOC Experience 23 Part Two：Applied Skills 29 Lifelong Learning 29 Part Three：Extended Reading 38 Grandma Moses 38 Tips for Academic Study 41 Concentration Tips 41 Unit 3 Doing Research 43 Part One: Read ＆ Think 45 Darwin and Natural Selection 45 Part Two：Applied Skills 53 Research Methodology: An Introduction 53 Part Three：Extended Reading 62 Blood, Sweat and Tears: on the Path of Treating Malaria 62 Tips for Academic Study 65 When to study 65 Unit 4 Liberal Education 67 Part One：Read ＆ Think 69 The Allegory of the Cave 69 Part Two：Applied Skills 76 Who Needs a Liberal Education? 76 Part Three: Extended Reading 84 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 84 Tips for Academic Study 89 Six Reading Myths 89 Unit 5 Be a Good Writer 91 Part One：Read ＆ Think 93 Ernest Hemingway and His Work 93 Part Two: Applied Skills 100 The Academic Writing Task 100 Part Three：Extended Reading 107 The Old Man and the Sea 107 Tips for Academic Study 110 Study Formula SQ3R 110 Chapter Two Career Advancement Unit 6 Understand People 113 Part One：Read ＆ Think 115 Personalities of Albert and Steve 115 Part Two：Applied Skills 122 Spirit of the Entrepreneur 122 Part Three：Extended Reading 129 Manage Your Boss—8 Ways to “Manage up” 129 Tips for Academic Study 133 Top 7 Tips for Understanding Why People Feel the Way They Do 133 Unit 7 Work with Others 135 Part One：Read ＆ Think 137 Importance of Teamwork in Organizations 137 Part Two：Applied Skills 143 Five Steps to Building an Organizational Culture 143 Part Three：Extended Reading 157 Twelve Cs for Team Building 157 Tips for Career Advancement 160 Observer Assessment Form for Group Exercises 160 Unit 8 Manage Your Work 163 Part One：Read ＆ Think 165 The Eisenhower Decision Matrix：How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks and Make Real Progress in Your Life 165 Part Two：Applied Skills 172 How to Communicate Effectively 172 Part Three：Extended Reading 182 Resource Management 182 Tips for Career Advancement 183 Self-management 183 Unit 9 Lead Your Work 185 Part One：Read ＆ Think 187 What Is Leadership? 187 Part Two：Applied Skills 191 How to Relieve Stress 191 Part Three：Extended Reading 197 What Is Motivation 197 Tips for Career Advancement 200 How to Become a Leader 200 Unit 10 Present Your Work 201 Part One：Read ＆ Think 203 Public Speaking 203 Part Two：Applied Skills 212 How to Make a Good Presentation 212 Part Three：Extended Reading 222 Fight Your Shyness 222 Tips for Career Advancement 225 The Art of Rhetoric 225 Chapter Three Science ＆ Technology Unit 11 Brain ＆ Neuroscience 231 Part One：Read ＆ Think 233 Right-and Left-handedness in Humans 233 Part Two：Applied Skills 238 What Happens in the Brain When You Learn a Language? 238 Part Three：Extended Reading 244 A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently 244 Tips for Reading Science Report 247 What Is a Literature Review? 247 Unit 12 Outer Space 249 Part One：Read ＆ Think 251 The Unearthly Landscapes of Mars: The Red Planet Is No Dead Planet 251 Part Two：Applied Skills 257 Incredible Technology: How to Find Life on Mars 257 Part Three：Extended Reading 262 The Threat from Outer Space 262 New Technology 265 3D Printed Car 265 Unit 13 Computer ＆ the Internet 267 Part One：Read ＆ Think 269 The Internet of Things Is Far Bigger Than Anyone Realizes 269 Part Two：Applied Skills 272 Tomorrow‘s Cities: How Big Data Is Changing the World 272 Part Three：Extended Reading 279 What Cloud Computing Really Means 279 Tesla Motors 282 Unit 14 New Energy 283 Part One：Read ＆ Think 285 The Future Battery 285 Part Two：Applied Skills 289 New Energy Sources and Inventions 289 Part Three：Extended Reading 300 You’ll never ‘be-leaf‘ what makes up this battery 300 Exploring Phosphorene, a Promising New Material 302 Unit 15 Nanotech and Material Sciences 303 Part One：Read ＆ Think 305 How Nanotechnology Works 305 Part Two：Applied Skills 310 What You Need to Know about Nano-food 310 Part Three：Extended Reading 319 The Future of Nanotechnology 319 Advanced Technology 321 VR Technology 321 References 322

张冬瑜，女，毕业于英国莱斯特大学自然语言处理/认知语言学专业，2004年至今就职于大连理工大学软件学院，杂志Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science 审稿人。