Unit 1 Health 1
Reading Skills Looking for the Topic Sentence 1
Text 1 Do We Need Extra Vitamins? 3
Text 2 Women and Tobacco 10
Text 3 Are These the Best Years of Your Life? 21
Unit 2 Environment 34
Reading Skills Scanning 34
Text 4 Our Disappearing Wildlife 36
Text 5 Pollution is a Dirty Word 43
Text 6 Keeping Food on the Table 52
Unit 3 Psychology 64
Reading Skills Reading for Central and Additional Information 64
Text 7 How to be Happy 65
Text 8 Never be Nervous Again 71
Text 9 Hey,I'm the Customer 81
Reading Skills Reading Introductory Phrases and Clauses 94
Unit 4 Sports and Body Building 94
Text 10 How to Camp out 96
Text 11 Body Image 103
Text 12 Baseball in America 115
Unit 5 Space 129
Reading Skills Reading for Implications 129
Text 13 Life on the Other Planets? 131
Text 14 Walking in Space 137
Text 15 Quake Research on Solid Ground 148
Unit 6 Birds and Animals 164
Reading Skills Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance 164
Text 16 Animal Education 166
Text 17 How Homing Pigeons Find Home 173
Text 18 An African Pet 183
Unit 7 Famous People 196
Reading Skills Using Context Clues to Determine the Meaning of Words 196
Text 19 Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address 198
Text 20 Kofi Annan's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly 208
Text 21 Me,Stephen William Hawking 221
Unit 8 Economics and Trades 235
Reading Skills Getting Main Ideas—Skimming and Scanning 235
Text 22 Bargains 237
Text 23 The Consumer 243
Text 24 More People and More Produces 256
Unit 9 Computers and Information Age 269
Reading Skills Facts or Opinions 269
Text 25 What are Computers? 271
Text 26 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life 278
Text 27 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life 290
Unit 10 Social Problems 304
Reading Skills Reading about Processes 304
Text 28 Juvenile Crime—Outlook for California 305
Text 29 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection 317
Text 30 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection 328
Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions 340
Unit 11 Education 340
Text 31 Choosing Not to Go to College 342
Text 32 The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Child 350
Text 33 Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills 361
Unit 12 Crime 374
Reading Skills Identifying and Understanding Signal Words 374
Text 34 Fighting the War against Computer Crime 376
Text 35 Juvenile Crime 385
Text 36 Juvenile Crime 397
后记 411
Appendix 1 413
Key to the Exercises 413
Appendix 2 427
英语阅读（二）自学考试大纲 427
Appendix 3 435
英语阅读（二）样卷 435
后记 455