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內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:　　迄今國(guó)內(nèi)絕大多數(shù)高校及大多數(shù)專業(yè)都開(kāi)設(shè)了專業(yè)英語(yǔ)課程，但已有的相關(guān)教材和課程教學(xué)內(nèi)容幾乎均僅限于專業(yè)文獻(xiàn)的選讀，這樣既限制學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)課程的興趣也影響教學(xué)質(zhì)量?！掇r(nóng)業(yè)與生物科學(xué)專業(yè)英語(yǔ)》是作者對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)和教授專業(yè)英語(yǔ)課程的經(jīng)驗(yàn)與教學(xué)成果的總結(jié)，其內(nèi)容和編排系統(tǒng)都較新穎。全書(shū)內(nèi)容分為9章，第1章概述專業(yè)英語(yǔ)的相關(guān)概念、課程內(nèi)涵及學(xué)習(xí)策略；第2章講述英文詞匯學(xué)與詞匯快速擴(kuò)充方法；在第3章介紹提高文獻(xiàn)閱讀效率的技巧之后，第4章選編8篇農(nóng)學(xué)與生物學(xué)文獻(xiàn)供學(xué)生進(jìn)行閱讀實(shí)踐；第5～7章討論英語(yǔ)的寫(xiě)作基本理論知識(shí)，包括文章的組織結(jié)構(gòu)與銜接、常見(jiàn)寫(xiě)作錯(cuò)誤與校正及重要的語(yǔ)言程式；第8～9章分別討論事務(wù)信函和科研論文的寫(xiě)作。每章都附有中文提要和練習(xí)題，書(shū)末附有不規(guī)則動(dòng)詞和名詞、常用拉丁語(yǔ)詞組及英語(yǔ)詞綴等重要參考知識(shí)。
　　《農(nóng)業(yè)與生物科學(xué)專業(yè)英語(yǔ)》可作為農(nóng)林、生物和環(huán)境等學(xué)科各專業(yè)的本科教材使用，也可作為其他專業(yè)學(xué)者和英語(yǔ)愛(ài)好者的參考用書(shū)。

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目錄:前言
Chapter 1 An Introduction toAcademic English
1．1 Concept of academic English
1．2 Academic English course
1．3 The academic English course book
1．4 Organizing your study
1．5 Strategies for English learning

Chapter 2 Learning New Words and Extending Your Vocabulary
2．1 General strategies and skills for learning new words
2．2 English word formation
2．2．1 Conversion of words
2．2．2 Word compounding
2．2．3 Abbreviation
2．2．4 Affixation
2．3 Word roots
2．3．1 Some common roots
2．3．2 Exploring the basics of roots
2．4 Word element
2．4．1 Origin of word elements
2．4．2 Some words and their element forms

Chapter 3 Techniques for Improving Efficiency of Reading English Literatures
3．1 Reading with a purpose
3．2 Using the title
3．3 Surveying a book
3．4 Surveying a text using first few lines of paragraphs
3．5 Surveying a text using the first and the last paragraphs
3．6 Scanning
3．7 Knowing meaning of words or phrases in context
3．8 Multiple reading skills by knowing the text organization

Chapter 4 Selected Readings in Biology and Agriculture
4．1 Microorganism
4．1．1 History
4．1．2 Classification and structure
4．1．3 Habitats and ecology
4．1．4 Importance
4．2 Agriculture
4．2．1 Etymology and terminology
4．2．2 History
4．2．3 Workforce
4．2．4 Safety
4．2．5 Agricultural production systems
4．2．6 Production practices
4．2．7 Crop alteration and biotechnology
4．2．8 Environmental impact
4．2．9 Agricultural economics
4．2．1 0Agriculture policy
4．3 Systematics， taxonomy and classification
4．3．1 The importance of biological classification
4．3．2 Taxonomic hierarchies
4．3．3 The goals of classification systems
4．3．4 Phenetic systematics
4．3．5 Cladistic systematics
4．3．6 Constructing phylogenies
4．3．7 Taxonomic keys
4．3．8 Summary
4．4 Weed management in organic crop production
4．4．1 Prevention
4．4．2 Sanitation
4．4．3 Cultural control
4．4．4 Crop competition
4．4．5 Mechanical control by tillage
4．4．6 Harvest management
4．4．7 Other control methods
4．4．8 Allelopathy
4．4．9 Biological weed control
4．4．1 0Conclusion
4．5 Genetically modified crops
4．5．1 Gene transfer in nature and traditional agriculture．．
4．5．2 History
4．5．3 Methods
4．5．4 Types of genetic engineering
4．5．5 Business of GM crops
4．5．6 Uses， actual and proposed
4．5．7 Extent of worldwide use of GM crops
4．5．8 Examples of genetically modified crops
4．5．9 Effects on farming practices
4．5．1 0Regulation
4．5．1 1Controversy
4．6 Archaea： the life's extremists
4．6．1 Archaea fossil record
4．6．2 Archaea ecology
4．6．3 Archaea systematics
4．6．4 Archaea morphology
4．7 Plant genomics - sowing the seeds of success
4．7．1 Crop genomics： growing potential
4．7．2 Model behavior： lessons from Arabidopsis and Brachypodium
4．7．3 Sensing change： responses to the environment
4．7．4 The tree of life
4．7．5 Concluding remarks
4．8 Lichens： an alliance between kingdoms
4．8．1 Fossil record of lichens
4．8．2 Life history and ecology
4．8．3 Systematics of lichens
4．8．4 More on morphology of lichens

Chapter 5 Awareness and Correction of Errors in Writing
5．1 Some common causes of error
5．2 Errors and corrections in standard usage
5．2．1 Cases of nouns and pronouns
5．2．2 Agreement of verb with subject
5．2．3 Agreement of pronoun with antecedent
5．2．4 Agreement of denominative adjective with its object
5．3 Unity and coherence in the sentence
5．3．1 Unity of thought
5．3．2 Unity of structure
5．3．3 Coherence
5．4 Errors and correction in spelling
5．4．1 Some effective ways of reducing misspelling
5．4．2 Some principles of spelling
5．5 Correct use of vocabulary and grammar
5．6 Writing styles
5．7 Writing tentativeness

Chapter 6 Structural Organization and Cohesion of General Texts
6．1 AND type connectives
6．2 OR type connectives
6．3 BUT type connectives
Chapter 7Language Function
7．1 Language function one： description
7．1．1 Describing the size of things
7．1．2 Describing shape and orientation
7．1．3 Describing climate
7．1．4 Describing process
7．2 Language function two： definition
7．2．1 General definition
7．2．2 Reduced definition
7．2．3 Definition of academic subjects
7．3 Language function three： exemplification
7．4 Language function four： classification and analysis
7．4．1 Classification
7．4．2 Analysis
7．5 Language function five： comparison and contrast
7．5．1 Comparison
7．5．2 Contrast
7．5．3 Superlative
7．5．4 Comparative
7．6 Language function fix： cause and effect
7．7 Language function seven： generalization and qualification
7．8 Language function eight： interpretation of data
7．9 Language function nine： argumentation
7．10 Language function ten： drawing conclusions

Chapter 8 Writing Business Letters
8．1 The form of business letters
8．2 Parts of a business letter
8．2．1 Regular parts
8．2．2 Special parts of a letter
8．3 Parts of the envelope
8．3．1 Regular parts of an envelope
8．3．2 Special parts of an envelope
8．4 Some principles of writing contents of the business letter
8．5 Special types of business letters
8．5．1 Letter of enquiry
8．5．2 Order letter
8．5．3 Letter of applications and resume
8．6 Concluding remarks

Chapter 9 Whiting a Research Paper
9．1 Title of a paper
9．1．1 The topic
9．1．2 The authors and their addresses
9．2 The abstract
9．2．1 Informative abstracts
9．2．2 Indicative abstracts
9．2．3 Structured abstracts
9．2．4 Key words
9．3 Introduction
9．4 Materials and methods
9．4．1 Materials
9．4．2 Methods
9．5 Results
9．6 Discussion
9．7 Conclusions
9．8 Acknowledgements
9．9 References
Appendix Ⅰ Groups of Affixes of English Words
Appendix Ⅱ Common Group of Irregular Verbs
Appendix Ⅲ List of Irregular Nouns
Appendix Ⅳ Some Common Latin Phrases in English Literatures
Appendix Ⅴ Some New or Unfamiliar Words and Phrases in this Book
Appendix Ⅵ mportant References