Unit One Efficient Reading 3
Lesson 1 Developing Your Reading Efficiency 3
Reading Selection A:World English:A Blessing or a Curse? 4
Reading Selection B:Jumble of Conflicting Language Taboos 15
Lesson 2 Developing Your Reading Flexibility 21
Reading Selection A:The New School Choice 22
Reading Selection B:We're Raising Children,Not Flowers 32
Lesson 3 Reading Rate 37
Reading Selection A:Whupping Fat Albert 37
Reading Selection B:Paging Dr.Carson 47
Unit Two Techniques for Efficient Reading 55
Lesson 4 Skimming:Reading for Main Ideas 55
Reading Selection A:The Transformation of Marriage 58
Reading Selection B:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast 69
Lesson 5 Scanning:Rapidly Locating Information 76
Reading Selection A:Science and Technology 81
Reading Selection B:Should We Improve Our Genome? 91
Lesson 6 Techniques for Reading Faster 98
Reading Selection A:Thank God It's Monday 100
Reading Selection B:Success 111
Unit Three Active Reading 119
Lesson 7 What Is Active Reading? 119
Reading Selection A:A Whole Nation and a People 120
Reading Selection B:The Ideal of Service 132
Lesson 8 Prereading 137
Reading Selection A:The Functions and Effects of Music 139
Reading Selection B:Whose Lead I Should Follow? 148
Lesson 9 Connections 153
Reading Selection A:The Weird World of Tobacco 154
Reading Selection B:Drunk Driver's Ed 164
Unit Four Techniques for Remembering What You Read 171
Lesson 10 Improving Your Concentration 171
Reading Selection A:American Values at the Crossroads 172
Reading Selection B:Sports and American Values 182
Lesson 11 Increasing Your Attention Span 187
Reading Selection A:A Case for Male Dishwashing 188
Reading Selection B:My Wife Belongs in the House 199
Lesson 12 Remembering What You Read 205
Reading Selection A:Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale? 207
Reading Selection B:How to Pursue Happiness 217
Unit Five Developing Your Word Power 223
Lesson 13 Expanding Your Vocabulary(1) 223
Reading Selection A:Laws of Lasting Love 225
Reading Selection B:Why We Love Who We Love 234
Lesson 14 Expanding Your Vocabulary(2) 239
Reading Selection A:Why Smaller Refrigerators Can Preserve the Human Race 240
Reading Selection B:Calculating Machine 249
Lesson 15 Aids to Vocabulary Development 254
Reading Selection A:True Height 257
Reading Selection B:Harry Potter 266
READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ 271
READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅱ 279