由郭杰克主编的《全新版大学英语<第2版>快速阅读1》是普通高等教育十一五**级规划教材,是*****使用的大学外语类教材。它的目的在于提高英语阅读速度,以适应目前信息量日益膨胀的现状。全书共分八个单元,其中每个单元由A-1、A-2和B-1、B-2四篇短文组成。每个单元的A-1和B-1供课堂使用,A-2和B-2供课外阅读。本书主要供修读一般要求的学生使用。

Unit 1
Text A-1 Welcome Letter for New First-Year Students
Text A-2 Student Opinion
Text B-1 A Day in the Life of Jane Wesley
Text B-2 Tipsfor First-Year Students
Unit 2
Text A-1 Making Friends
Text A-2 Black and White
Text B-1 Friends
Text B-2 Friendship
Unit 3
Text A-1 Stephen Hawking
Text A-2 Can Computers Replace People?
Text B-1 The Scientific Method (1)
Text B-2 The Scientific Method (2)
Unit 4
Text A-1 A Country of Immigrants
Text A-2 Andrew Carnegie
Text B-1 The Automobile in American Life
Text B-2 I.M. Pei
Unit 5
Text A-1 The Waitress
Text A-2 My First Job
Text B-1 Jump
Text B-2 The Death Car
Unit 6
Text A-1 Cyclingfor Air -- With Love
Text A-2 Internet Love Can Work
Text B-1 The Woman of His Dreams
Text B-2 Early Autumn
Unit 7
Text A-1 Alex, the Talking Parrot
Text A-2 Do Animals Think?
Text B-1 Natural and Applied Science
Text B-2 The Link Between Pure and Applied Science
Unit 8
Text A-1 Adult Education in the U.S
Text A-2 Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's
Text B-1 Continuing Education Classes
Text B-2 Biological Clocks
Appendix
Key to Comprehension Exercises