本教材旨在培养学生的英语学术能力，共分为八个单元，涉及城市规划、骄傲与、科技、经济、学术气站、医疗卫生、环境和学习行为八个主题，依托每个主题展开一个具体的学术英语能力训练；同时，该教材力求增强学生的自主学习能力、批判性思维能力，使学生能够通过批判性阅读对学术话题形成自己独立的观点。

Unit 1 Urban Planning 1
Text A Pre-reading tasks 2
Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish
“Smart City” 3
After-reading check 7
Academic writing 11
Planning essays 11
Writing an explanation essay 13
Text B Urban Resilience for a New Century 15
After-reading check 19
Academic writing 22
Nominalization: moving towards more academic writing 22
Modality: using modality in your writing 25
Critical thinking 26
Unit 2 Education 27
Text A Pre-reading tasks 28
Higher Education, Creative Destruction 29
After-reading check 33
Academic writing 36
Writing an argument essay 36
Text B Free Education: Learning New Lessons 39
After-reading check 45
Academic writing 48
Cohesion through discourse markers: addition, example,
deduction and summation 48
Writing a comparison and contrast essay 49
Critical thinking 52
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Unit 3 Science and Technology 55
Pre-reading tasks Text A 56
At 50 Years Old, the Challenge to Keep up with Moore’s Law 57
After-reading check 61
Academic writing 65
Writing a discussion essay 65
Text B The Future of Computing after Moore’s Law 69
After-reading check 73
Academic writing 76
Cohesion through markers that indicate reasons 76
Writing a cause and e ect essay 77
Critical thinking 80
Unit 4 Economy 83
Text A Pre-reading tasks 84
Wage Inequality: A Race between Education and
Technology85
After-reading check 88
Academic writing 93
Paragraph formatting 1 93
Text B Is Brexit the Beginning of the End for Globalization95
After-reading check 99
Academic writing 102
Di erences between spoken and written register 102
Critical thinking 106
Unit 5 Academic Dishonesty 107
Text A Pre-reading tasks 108
When “Exciting” Trumps “Honest”, Traditional Academic
Journals Encourage Bad Science 109
After-reading check 113
Academic writing 116
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Paragraph formatting 2 116
Text B Innovation: Time to Fix Patents 120
After-reading check 124
Academic writing 127
Interpreting and describing information from tables and gures 127
Critical thinking 130
Unit 6 Medication and Health 131
Pre-reading tasks Text A 132
Is This Antibiotic Apocalypse133
After-reading check 137
Academic writing 141
Writing to propose 141
Text B Promoting Immunology: The Future Is Here 143
After-reading check 146
Academic writing 149
Writing notes to a paper 149
Critical thinking 153
Unit 7 Environment 155
Text A Pre-reading tasks 156
Accelerating Extinction Risk from Climate Change 157
After-reading check 164
Academic writing 168
Writing research reports 168
Text B Australian Community Members’ Attitudes toward
Climate Change Impacts at the Great Barrier Reef 172
After-reading check 181
Academic writing 184
Mini-research project 184
Critical thinking 186
Unit 8 Studying Behavior 187
Pre-reading tasks Text A 188
The Linguistic Genius of Babies 189
After-reading check 193
Academic writing 197
Oral presentation skills and oral discourse markers 197
Further oral presentation skills 200
Oral presentation assignment 202
Text B Parental Involvement and Student Achievement 203
After-reading check 205
Academic writing 207
Tutorial participation skills 207
Using visual aids in presentations 209
Giving constructive criticism 211
Critical thinking 212