Unit 1 1
Text A What s in a Textbook?(课本里面是什么) 1
Text B American Space,Chinese Place(美国人爱动，中国人好停) 5
Text C What I Lived For(我为什么而活着) 10
Unit 2 13
Text A Organization and Reading(文章组织与阅读理解) 13
Text B Helen Keller(海伦·凯勒) 16
Text C Charlie Chaplin,Creator of Comedy(喜剧大师查理·卓别林) 22
Unit 3 26
Text A Rate and Comprehension(阅读速度与阅读理解) 26
Text B Computers and Humans(电脑与人脑) 30
Text C A Man Who Had No Eyes(瞎子) 36
Unit 4 42
Text A The Reading Process(阅读过程) 42
Text B How to Grow Old(长寿秘诀) 47
Text C The Transaction(议事录) 53
Unit 5 59
Text A Improving Your Reading Rate(提高阅读速度) 59
Text B Language(语言) 63
Text C Why I Want a Wife(谁不欲娶妻) 70
Text A Skimming(略读) 75
Unit 6 75
Text B It s Never Too Late for Success(要成功永远不会晚) 80
Text C Straddling Cultural Divides with Grace(轻松跨越文化鸿沟) 87
Unit 7 92
Text A How to Skim?(如何略读) 92
Text B Wealth(财富) 97
Text C The Use of Force(强行诊治) 103
Unit 8 111
Text A Finding Main Ideas(寻找大意) 111
Text B The Affectionate Machine(含情脉脉的机器) 116
Text C The Listener(天涯知音) 123
Unit 9 130
Text A Finding Topic Sentences and Locating Thesis Statements(查找段落主题句与文章主题句) 130
Text B Is Speed Reading Overrated?(快速阅读是否是在沽名钓誉) 134
Text C Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx(在卡尔·马克思墓前的讲话) 141
Unit 10 146
Text A Scanning(掠读) 146
Text B What s in the Cards?(卡片之中有什么) 150
Text C Give Us 15 Minutes a Day(每天给我们15分钟) 157
Text A How to Scan?(如何掠读) 164
Unit 11 164
Text B Office Automation(办公自动化) 169
Text C Good Friends(好朋友) 175
Unit 12 181
Text A Reading for Information(寻找信息) 181
Text B The Job of the President(总统的职责) 186
Text C What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?(什么知识最有价值) 194
Unit 13 199
Text A Sorting Out Major and Minor Details(区分主要事实与次要事实) 199
Text B Forecasting Life in the 21st Century(21世纪生活展望) 204
Text C What Makes a Leader?(领导者的素质) 210
Unit 14 215
Text A Making Inferences(推断) 215
Text B Clearing in the Sky(天随人愿) 219
Text C Robots and Supertelevision(机器人与超级电视) 229
Unit 15 236
Text A Fact and Opinion(事实与观点) 236
Text B Your Name is Your Destiny(名字可能决定命运) 241
Unit 16 253
Text A Drawing Conclusions and Predicting Outcomes(总结与预测) 253
Text B An Essay on War(论战争) 258
Text C Solitude(隐居) 268
Unit 17 273
Text A Generalizing(概括) 273
Text B Honesty:Is It Going Out of Style?(诚实：是否已不再时髦) 278
Text C The Olympic Spirit(奥林匹克精神) 287
Unit 18 293
Text A Marking and Underlining Textbooks(标记与下划线) 293
Text C John F.Kennedy s Inaugural Address(An Excerpt)(约翰·F·肯尼迪就职演说〖节选〗) 294
Text B Conflict and Cooperation(冲突与合作) 298
Text C Sun,Sea and English(阳光、海滩与英语) 304
Unit 19 309
Text A Taking Reading Notes(做读书笔记) 309
Text B Secrets in Stone(石头的秘密) 313
Text C The Story of An Hour(一小时的故事) 320
Unit 20 326
Text A Summarizing Reading Texts(总结阅读文章) 326
Text B A Ride Down the Information Highway(信息高速公路之行) 331
Text C Time to Give Reading a Break(留点时间给读书) 337
Keys 342
Bibliography 347