CCONTTEENTTSSUnit 1 Urban Planning .................................................... 1Text A Pre-reading tasks .....................................................................................................................2Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish“Smart City” ..............................................................................................................3After-reading check ..............................................................................................................7Academic writing ....................................................................................................................11? Planning essays ............................................................................................................................. 11? Writing an explanation essay ................................................................................................13Text B Urban Resilience for a New Century .....................................................15After-reading check ...........................................................................................................19Academic writing ...................................................................................................................22? Nominalization: moving towards more academic writing ..................................22? Modality: using modality in your writing .........................................................................25Critical thinking .......................................................................................................................26Unit 2 Education ............................................................ 27Text A Pre-reading tasks ..................................................................................................................28Higher Education, Creative Destruction .....................................................29After-reading check ...........................................................................................................33Academic writing ...................................................................................................................36? Writing an argument essay ....................................................................................................36Text B Free Education: Learning New Lessons .....................................................39After-reading check ...........................................................................................................45Academic writing ...................................................................................................................48? Cohesion through discourse markers: addition, example,deduction and summation .....................................................................................................48? Writing a comparison and contrast essay ....................................................................49Critical thinking ........................................................................................................................52iv综合学术英语 教程Unit 3 Science and Technology ................................... 55Pre-reading tasks Text A ..................................................................................................................56At 50 Years Old, the Challenge to Keep up with Moore’s Law ......57After-reading check ...........................................................................................................61Academic writing ...................................................................................................................65? Writing a discussion essay .....................................................................................................65Text B The Future of Computing after Moore’s Law ...................................69After-reading check ...........................................................................................................73Academic writing ...................................................................................................................76? Cohesion through markers that indicate reasons ....................................................76? Writing a cause and e ect essay .......................................................................................77Critical thinking ........................................................................................................................80Unit 4 Economy ............................................................. 83Text A Pre-reading tasks ..................................................................................................................84Wage Inequality: A Race between Education andTechnology? .........................................................................................................85After-reading check ...........................................................................................................88Academic writing ...................................................................................................................93? Paragraph formatting 1..............................................................................................................93Text B Is Brexit the Beginning of the End for Globalization? .................95After-reading check ...........................................................................................................99Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 102? Di erences between spoken and written register...............................................102Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 106Unit 5 Academic Dishonesty ...................................... 107Text A Pre-reading tasks ............................................................................................................... 108When “Exciting” Trumps “Honest”, Traditional AcademicJournals Encourage Bad Science ........................................................109After-reading check .........................................................................................................113Academic writing .................................................................................................................116vContents 　? Paragraph formatting 2 .......................................................................................................... 116Text B Innovation: Time to Fix Patents .............................................................120After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 124Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 127? Interpreting and describing information from tables and gures ...............127Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 130Unit 6 Medication and Health ..................................... 131Pre-reading tasks Text A ............................................................................................................... 132Is This Antibiotic Apocalypse? ................................................................133After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 137Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 141? Writing to propose ....................................................................................................................141Text B Promoting Immunology: The Future Is Here ................................143After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 146Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 149? Writing notes to a paper .......................................................................................................149Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 153Unit 7 Environment ..................................................... 155Text A Pre-reading tasks ............................................................................................................... 156Accelerating Extinction Risk from Climate Change .................157After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 164Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 168? Writing research reports ......................................................................................................168Text B Australian Community Members’ Attitudes towardClimate Change Impacts at the Great Barrier Reef ..................172After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 181Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 184? Mini-research project ............................................................................................................184Critical thinking ..................................................................................................................... 186Unit 8 Studying Behavior ........................................... 187Pre-reading tasks Text A ............................................................................................................... 188The Linguistic Genius of Babies ............................................................189After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 193Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 197? Oral presentation skills and oral discourse markers ...........................................197? Further oral presentation skills ..........................................................................................200? Oral presentation assignment ...........................................................................................202Text B Parental Involvement and Student Achievement .....................203After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 205Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 207? Tutorial participation skills ....................................................................................................207? Using visual aids in presentations ...................................................................................209? Giving constructive criticism .............................................................................................. 211Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 212