快速阅读理解精要 1
1．My University 11
2．Eight Keys to True Happiness 16
3．Olympic Mascots Take Off 21
4．Ten Ways to Lose Ten Pounds 26
5．Marketing Your Abilities:Guides for the Job Seeker 31
6．Guinness World Records 36
7．The Internet Is Changing Higher Education 40
8．Acquaintance with Tom Hanks 44
9．ABC of Walking Wisely 48
10．The Pleasure of Eating 52
11．Who's Doing the Work around the House? 56
12．Procrastination:What You Can Do about It 61
13．A Robot about the House 66
14．Single-parent Families 70
15．Magic 74
16．How to Handle a Hostile Driver 78
17．Would You Like to Work at Home? 82
18．Suicide Problem in China 87
19．White House Will Deal with Iraq 92
20．April Fool 97
21．An Embarrassment of Riches 102
22．Great First Impression 108
23．A Brief Introduction to Swimming 113
24．Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems 117
25．The Power of Forgiving 122
26．The Art of Public Speaking—Delivery 127
27．McAmerica:Fast Food Nation 132
28．Sims—The New Video Game 137
29．Many Faces of America 142
30．For Unpaid Interns,a Financial Lift 147
31．Foreign Competition in Space 151
32．With Cancer,Treatment Is Only Part of the Picture 155
33．Graveyard of the Atlantic 160
34．America's New Merchants of Death 165
35．Tornado in the Drain 170
36．Oil 174
37．Your Dreams Don't Lie 178
38．The Two-year Apple 182
39．Conversation with a Chimpanzee 186
40．What Makes the Weather? 190
41．Don't Take the Bait 194
42．How Jazz Began 199
43．The Western Modern Furniture 204
44．How to Attend a Meeting 210
45．No Kidding:Americans Acquiring Taste for Goat 214
46．Exporting 219
47．Hidden Fees You Shouldn't Pay 224
48．Boycott Mania around the Globe 229
49．Clean Living on Campus 233
50．Books for Lending,Data for Taking 238
51．From Burger Flipper to McDonald's CEO 242
52．Low-cost Lamps Brighten the Future of Rural India 246
53．What Are Sleep Disorders 251
54．Why Bam Death Toll Was So High 256
55．The City 260
56．Why We Laugh 265
57．An Observation and an Explanation 269
58．The First Ecologists 273
59．The Bright Side of Pessimism 277
60．Left-Handedness:A Sinister Story 281