CONTENTS 1
Unit One Efficient Reading 1
Lesson 1 Developing Your Reading Efficiency 1
READING SELECTION A：World English：A Blessing or a Curse？ 1
READING SELECTION B：Jumble of Conflicting Language Taboos 26
Lesson 2 Developing Reading Flexibility 28
READING SEI ECTION A：The New School Choice 28
READING SELECTION B：We’re Raising Children，Not Flowers 42
Lesson 3 Reading Rate 44
READING SELECTION A：Whupping Fat Albert 44
READING SELECTION B：Paging Dr.Carson 52
READING SELECTION A：A Whole Nation and a People 55
Lesson 4 What Is Active Reading？ 55
Unit Two Active Reading 55
READING SELECTION B：The Ideal of Service 68
Lesson 5 Prereading 72
READING SELECTION A：The Functions and Effects of Music 72
READING SELECTION B：Whose Lead I Should Follow？ 85
Lesson 6 Connections 90
READING SELECTION A：The Weird World of Tobacco 90
READING SELECTION B：Drunk Driver’s Ed 113
Unit Three Techniques for RememberingWhat You Read 116
Lesson 7 Improving Your Concentration 116
READING SELECTION A：The Civil War：Repressible or Irrepressible？ 116
READING SELECTION B：Grant and Lee：A Study in Contrast 141
READING SELECTION A：Science and Technology 142
Lesson 8 Increasing Your Attention Span 142
READING SELECTION B：It’s a No-Brainer 152
Lesson 9 Remembering What You Read 153
READING SELECTION A：Death：It’s What Ails You 153
READING SELECTION B：Success 161
Unit Four Techniques for Efficient Reading 165
Lesson 10 Skimming：Reading for Main Ideas 165
READING SELECTION A：American Values at the Crossroads 165
READING SELECTION B：Sports and American Values 173
Lesson 11 Scanning：Rapidly Locating Information 175
READING SELECTION A：A Case for Male Dishwashing 176
READING SELECTION B：My Wife Belongs in the House 181
Lesson 12 Techniques for Reading Faster 185
READING SELECTION A：Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale？ 186
READING SELECTION B：How to Pursue Happiness 191
Unit Five Developing Your Word Power 194
Lesson 13 Expanding Your Vocabulary（1） 194
READING SELECTION A：Laws of Lasting Love 194
READING SELECTION B：Why We Love Who We Love 200
Lesson 14 Expanding Your Vocabulary（2） 201
READING SELECTION A：Why Smaller Refrigerators Can Preserve the Human Race 201
READING SELECTION B：Calculating Machine 205
Lesson 15 Aids to Vocabulary Development 208
READING SELECTION A：True Height 208
READING SELECTION B：Harry Potter 213
KEYS TO READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ 216
KEYS TO READING COMPREHENSION TESTⅡ 219