技巧篇 3
使用说明 3
How to Frnd Time to Read(如何找出时间阅读)Louis Shores 12
经验篇 19
我学英语的“诀窍” 王跃 19
阅读使我受益匪浅——谈我学习英语的体会 王玮 23
知之不如好之 翁宇华 25
浅谈阅读与写作——八六级四级英语统考作文题的写作体会 李旭洋 27
我是怎样学好英？ 胡昭玲 30
抓好基础，重视 ？高英语教学质量 汪士彬 33
实践篇 41
Unit One The Old Man and the Sea 41
Unit Two From Earth to Moon 48
Unit Three The First Men on Venus 55
Unit Four Elephants 63
Unit Five Sometimes They Seem Almost Human 71
Unit Six Healthy Eating 78
Unit Seven Plastics—Man's Most Useful Material 86
Unit Eight Sports Around the World 94
Unit Nine Madame Curie and Radium 101
Unit Ten Learning Science 108
Unit Eleven Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen 116
Unit Twelve The Prince and the Judge 126
Unit Thirteen The Tragedy from the Californian Gold Rush 135
Unit Fourteen A Ship of Ice 142
Unit Fifteen Nature Recycles Water 149
Unit Sixteen Paper and Its Uses 156
Unit Seventeen Pyramids 164
Unit Eighteen Tokyo 172
Unit Nineteen Eskimos in a Changing World 181
Unit Twenty Cultural Survival,Inc. 189
Unit Twenty-One Energy Sense Makes Future Sense 197
Unit Twenty-Two Waste Not，Want Not 205
Unit Twenty-Three Money 213
Unit Twenty-Four Talk Returns to the Doctor's Office 221
Unit Twenty-Five Dreams—What Do They Mean? 229
Unit Twenty-Six Have You Ever S？g Saucer? 236
Unit Twenty-Seven Computers Concein You 245
Unit Twenty-Eight Early Birds 253
Unit Twenty-Nine Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrasts 261
Unit Thirty The Tramp and the Philosopher 268
Unit Thirty-One Better Known as Mark Twain 276
Unit Thirty-Two Education in the United States 287
Unit Thirty-Three Transportation 297
Unit Thirty-Four Communications 306
Unit Thirty-Five American Food and Drink 317
Unit Thirty-Six Graveyard of the Atlantic 328
SUPPLEMENTARY SPEED READING MATERIAL 338
1.Fire Making 338
2.The Development of Textile Fibres 341
3.East or West 346
4.A Chimp in Space 350
5.Geography of the United States 357
6.The Weather 362
7.Country Living 366
8.Food and Cooking 370
9.Vacations 374
10.Sports in America 380
11.Medical Treatment 385
12.Postal Services 390
13.Weights and Measures 394
14.Libraries 398
15.Expert Says Arctie Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea 401
16.The Wizard of Menlo Park 406
ANSWERS 414
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 461