CONTENTS 1
Unit One Efficient Reading 1
Lesson 1 Developing Your Reading Efficiency 2
READING SELECTION A:World English:A Blessing or a Curse? 3
READING SELECTION B:Jumble of Conflicting Language Taboos 13
Lesson 2 Developing Reading Flexibility 19
READING SELECTION A:The New School Choice 20
READING SELECTION B:We're Raising Children,Not Flowers 29
Lesson 3 Reading Rate 34
READING SELECTION A:Whupping Fat Albert 34
READING SELECTION B:Paging Dr.Carson 43
Unit Two Active Reading 49
Lesson 4 What Is Active Reading? 50
READING SELECTION A:A Whole Nation and a People 51
READING SELECTION B:The Ideal of Service 62
Lesson 5 Prereading 67
READING SELECTION A:The Functions and Effects of Music 68
READING SELECTION B:Whose Lead I Should Follow? 78
Lesson 6 Connections 82
READING SELECTION A:The Weird World of Tobacco 83
READING SELECTION B:Drunk Driver's Ed 93
Unit Three Techniques for Remembering What You Read 97
Lesson 7 Improving Your Concentration 98
READING SELECTION A:The Civil War:Repressible or Irrepressible? 99
READING SELECTION B:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast 110
Lesson 8 Increasing Your Attention Span 117
READING SELECTION A:Science and Technology 118
READING SELECTION B:It's a No-Brainer 128
Lesson 9 Remembering What You Read 133
READING SELECTION A:Death:It's What Ails You 135
READING SELECTION B:Success 143
Unit Four Techniques for Efficient Reading 149
Lesson 10 Skimming:Reading for Main Ideas 150
READING SELECTION A:American Values at the Crossroads 153
READING SELECTION B:Sports and American Values 162
Lesson 11 Scanning:Rapidly Locating Information 166
READING SELECTION A:A Case for Male Dishwashing 170
READING SELECTION B:My Wife Belongs in the House 180
Lesson 12 Techniques for Reading Faster 186
READING SELECTION A:Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale? 188
READING SELECTION B:How to Pursue Happiness 197
Unit Five Developing Your Word Power 201
Lesson 13 Expanding Your Vocabulary(1) 202
READING SELECTION A:Laws of Lasting Love 204
READING SELECTION B:Why We Love Who We Love 212
Lesson 14 Expanding Your Vocabulary(2) 217
READING SELECTION A:Why Smaller Refrigerators Can Preserve the Human Race 218
READING SELECTION B:Calculating Machine 227
Lesson 15 Aids to Vocabulary Development 232
READING SELECTION A:True Height 235
READING SELECTION B:Harry Potter 243
READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ 248
READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅱ 256