本书文章全部选自2003年—2005年的the 21st Century和China Daily英文报刊，详细介绍阅读实践中遇到的各种技巧，内容新颖，时代感强。本书可作为大学本、专科英语专业一年级学生，业余大学、网络大学和成人高校英语专业自学考试学员的阅读教材，也可供非英语专业学生及广大英语爱好者使用。

Unit 1 The Reading Process/1
Unit 2 Broadening Eye Span/6
Unit 3 Avoiding Vocalization and Inner Speech/12
Unit 4 Reading in Thought Groups/18
Unit 5 Faster Effective Reading/25
Unit 6 Obstacles to Faster Effective Reading/32
Unit 7 Hints for Reading Practice(I) /37
Unit 8 Hints for Reading Practice(Ⅱ)/42
Unit 9 Looking for the Topic Sentence/48
Unit 10 Context Clues(I) /55
Unit 11 Context Clues(II)/60
Unit 12 Stems and Affixes/65
Unit 13 Sentence Reading /71
Unit 14 Reading Beyond the Lines/77
Unit 15 Reading for Implied Meanings/82
Unit 16 How to Scan(I)/86
Unit 17 How to Scan(II)/92
Unit 18 Recognizing Direction Words/99
Unit 19 How to Identify Reference and SubStitution/108
Unit 20 How to Skim/113
Unit 21 Understanding the Main Idea/120
Unit 22 Recognizing bnmportant Facts or Details/128
Unit 23 Discovering the Author’s Purpose/137
Unit 24 Making Inferences/140
Unit 25 Drawing Conclusions/147
Unit 26 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion/153
Unit 27 Making Judgments/159
Unit 28 How to Idemify the Tone of a Passage/165
Unit 29 Critical Reading-Questioning．Comparing & Evaluating/172
Unit 30 How to Use a Dictionary /176
Unit 31 Increasing Word Power/182
Unit 32 How To Read Newspaper Headlines/187
Unit 33 Preparing Outlines and Book Reports /191
Unit 34 Test Taking/195
Key to the exercises/198