本书是普通高等教育“ 十一五”**级规划教材,供高等学校英语专业一、二年级使用,也适用于同等程度的英语自学者。本书共15个单元。 单元一般分为四部分:**部分为阅读课文及练习,练习包括判断课文**思想、阅读理解、课堂讨论题和词汇练习;第二部分为阅读技巧,**介绍各种阅读技巧,并配有相应的练习;第三部分为快速阅读练习,提供3篇短文,要求在规定的时间内完成;第四部分为课外阅读,提供和课文长度相当的语言材料,配有阅读理解题和思考题。 本书替换了第二版的部分内容,并根据难易程度调整了单元顺序,使阅读文章题材更加广泛、更具有时代感。

Unit 1 Text Love Reading Skills Previewing (Ⅰ) Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading A Wonderful Present Unit 2 Text Little House in the Big Woods Reading Skills Previewing (Ⅱ) Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The American Cowboy Unit 3 Text Young William Sbakespeare Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The Best Playwright in England Unit 4 Text Migratory Birds and Coffee Reading Skills Undetanding the Topic Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Iects Unit 5 Text Cheating Reading Skills Determining the Main Idea Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Stolen Day Unit 6 Text Fool's Paradisc Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed H0me Reading Sleeping Ugly Unit 7 Text The Call of the Wild (Ⅰ) Reading Skills Guessing tbe Meaning of VVords from the Context (Ⅰ) Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The Call of the Wild (Ⅲ) Unit 8 Text Two Boxes of Gold (Ⅰ) Reading Skills Guessing the Meaning of Words from the Context (Ⅱ) Tesdng Your Rcading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Two Boxes of Gold (Ⅱ) Unit 9 Text Techniques That Might Smile upon Mona Lisa Tesring Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Shanghai Expo Tur Spotlight 0n Natio Unit 10 Text London Reading Skills Recognising Organisation and Seeing Relatiohip (Ⅰ) (Sequence of Events) Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Great Britain Unit 11 Text The All-American Slurp Reading Skills Recognising Organisation and Seeing Relatiohip (Ⅱ) (Undetanding Supporting Details) Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The Dinner Party Unit 12 Text On the Wrong Side of the Global Divide Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading Protect Youelf Agait AIDS Unit 13 Text Your College Experience Reading Skills Finding the Point of View Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The American College in American Life Unit 14 Text The Confidence Game Reading Skills Guessing the Meaning of Words from Word-formation Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading My Way to Success Unit 15 Text Starting Over at 85 Testing Your Reading Compreheion and Speed Home Reading The Divine Ms H Sources of Reading Materials

本书由刘乃银主编,是普通高等教育“十一五”**级规划教材,供高等学校英语专业一、二年级使用,也适用于同等程度的英语自学者。教材旨在提高学生英语阅读理解能力,扩大学生词汇量,介绍基本的阅读技巧。