Unit One 1
1．A Driving Test 1
ContentS 1
2．Three Wishes 2
3．A University Town 4
4．A Luckv Customer 6
5．“Body Clocks” 7
6．How Do Men And Women Go about Buying Clothes？ 9
7．The Nobel Prize 10
8．Death of American Presidents 12
Notes and Analyses 13
Reading Guidance：大学生为什么必须具有较强的阅读外文书刊的能力？ 17
9．Radio 20
Unit Two 20
10．Smoking 21
11．A Revised Schedule of Services 22
12．The World Population 24
13．Different Forms of Communication 26
14．Finding a Needle in a Haystack 27
15．The Story of“Titanic” 29
16．A City at Sea 30
Notes and Analyses 32
Reading Guidance：大量阅读是提高阅读能力的必由之路 35
Unit Three 37
17．Public Goods 37
18．The Attack on Illiteracy 38
19．Blood Types of Human Beings 40
20．Going up 42
21．Televised Lessons 43
22．The Lost Sea： 45
23．Bike for a Better City 47
24．The New Tork Public Library in Danger 48
Notes And Analyses 49
Reading Guidance：扩大词汇量是提高阅读能力突破口 54
Unit Four 57
25．About Living on the Moon 57
26．Food and Health 58
27．The Effects of Different Environments 60
28．Zinc and Health 62
29．Balance in Education 64
30．Robots 65
31.Change 67
32.What Des an Artist Want to Do？ 68
Notes and Analyses 71
Reading Guidance：提高阅读能力的过程和规律 75
Unit Five 77
33．An Atomic City 77
34．An Argument about Population 79
35．Doctor Sanders 80
36．Pay Attention to Your Energy Cycle 82
37．How Do the Students Study in America？ 84
38．A Successful Forger 86
39．The Crime and the Month 88
40．In a Bookshop 90
Notes and Analyses 92
Reading Guidance：阅读速度是阅读能力的重要标志之 97
Unit Six 100
41．Division of Labor 100
42．Optician John Andrews 102
43．Salt and Salary 104
44．Electricity Failures in New York 106
45．At American Restaurants 108
46．Laser 110
47．Changes in the Lives of Women 112
48．The Argument over Oil in Norway 114
Notes and Analyses 116
Reading Guidance：整体阅读法 121
Unit Seven 123
49．Oil Refining 123
50．Two Groups of Scientist 124
51．Sah on the Ea rth 126
52．The Victorian and Albert Museum 128
53．Laziness 130
54．Aquaculture：New Hope for Food 132
55．The Tennessee Valley Authority 134
56．A Story of an Old Fisherman 136
Notes and Analyses 139
Reading Guidance：论说文及记叙文的特点及阅读方法 145
Unit Eight 148
57．Paper 148
58．The Roles of Men and Women in a Family 150
59．The First Men on Venus 153
60．Family 155
61.Instant Coffee 157
62．Earthquakes 159
63．Albert Einstein 162
64．Ahitude towards Work 164
Notes and Analyses 167
Reading Guidance：阅读理解题的类型 172
65．Human Needs 175
Unit Nine 175
66．How New York Became America’s Largest City 177
67．Changing Fashions 179
68．Why Don’t Girls Think Like Boys？（1） 181
69．Why Don’t Girls Think Like Boys？（2） 183
70．Healthy Eating 185
71．Visitors from Another World 187
72．Newspapers 189
Notes and Analyses 191
Reading Guidance：阅读理解题的答题方法 196
Unit Ten 198
73．A Letter 198
74．Hydroponics：Farming without Dirt 200
75．Public Transportation 202
76．Color 204
77．A Matter of Life and Death 206
78．Crime-busting Computers 208
79．About Lefties 210
80．Paper and its Uses 212
Notes and Analyses 215
Reading Guidance：时间型段 220
Unit E1even 223
81．Educating the Young 223
82．Riddles 225
83．A Ship of Ice 227
84．Icebergs for Water 229
85．Steinmetz：ElectricaI Genius 231
86．How Electicity is Made 233
87．Modern Examinations 236
Nores and Analyses 238
Reading Guidance：问答型段 242
Unit Twelve 244
88．Higher Education 244
89．Technical Vocabulary 246
90．Advertising 249
91．The Advantages and Drawbacks of the Car 251
92．Prophet Jules Verne 253
93．Hints for Reading Practice（1） 255
94．Hints for Reading Practice（2） 257
Notes and Analyses 261
Reading Guidance：分类型段 266
Unit Thirteen 269
95．Clocks through Time 269
96．Why Does Food Cost So Much？ 271
97．Complaining Is Never Easy 273
98．Electric Fish 276
99．Chopsticks 278
100．Canning Food 281
101．Blue Is the Sky 283
Notes and Analyses 285
Reading Guidance：定义型段 291
Unit Fourteen 294
102．The Police Computer 294
103．Post Office 296
104．Learning for Life 298
105．Gateway to the USA 301
106．Bringing up Children（1） 303
107．Bringing up Children（2） 305
108．Do Animals Have Culture？ 308
Notes and Analyses 311
Reading Guidance：例证型段 314
Unit Fifteen 316
109．The World Food Programme 316
110．All Fool’s Day 319
111．The Atlantic Ocean 321
112．Be Smooth and Polite 324
113．Bionics 326
114．The Students from Africa in the USA 329
115．Books 331
Notes and Analyses 334
Reading Guidance：列举型段 340
Unit Sixteen 343
116．What Makes the Weather so Hard to Forecast？ 343
117．Learning by Doing 345
118．The Problems of Youth 348
119．The New Awareness towards Energy Resources 351
120．How Americans Eat and Drink 353
121．The Essence of Good Writing 356
122．The Loch Ness Monster 359
Notes and Analyses 362
Reading Guidance：比较－对比型段 366
Unit Seventeen 369
123．Has Man A Future？ 369
124．My Life as a Student 372
125．A Mysterious Explosion in Central Siberia 375
126．Overpopulation and Social Behavior 378
127．Odd Jobs 381
128．Education in the United States 384
129．Thomas Jefferson 389
Notes and Analyses 392
Reading Guidance：综合型段 397
130．Sports and Education 400
Unit Eighteen 400
131．Pockety Women Unite 403
132．Men，Machines and Marvels 406
133．Equality：Dream or Reality？ 409
134．The Effects of TV on Children 412
135．The Midnight Visitor 416
136．The Stranger 418
Notes and Analyses 422
Unit Nineteen 426
137．Three Great UFOs 426
138．Worlds within Worlds 429
139．The Characteristics of English 434
140．Disney World 437
141．Money Makes the Mare Go 440
142．How to Avoid Foolish Opinions 444
143．Will the Resouree Sustain Life on the Earth？ 448
Notes and Analyses 452
Unit Twenty 458
144．An Observation and Explanation 458
145．The Laws of Nature 461
146．Japanese Style in Decision-making 466
147．A Robot about the House 471
148．Why We laugh 475
149．Washington D．C． 479
150．How Japan Does It 483
Notes and Analyses 488
Answers to the Comprehension Questions 496