Unit 1 1
Text A Making Adjustments(中学→大学·调整) 1
Text B Higher Education in the USA(美国的高等教育) 4
Text C The Story ofCreation(创世故事) 11
Unit 2 16
Text A Planning a Schedule(制定学习计划) 16
Text B Being on Time(守时准则) 20
Text C The Garden ofEden(伊甸园) 25
Unit 3 29
Text A Study and Reading(学习与阅读) 29
Text B Working Hard or Hardly Working?(工作努力还是几乎不工作) 32
Text C Is It Love or Infatuation?(是爱恋还是迷恋) 37
Unit 4 41
Text A Purposes ofReading(阅读目的) 41
Text B Dreams That Came True(愿望成真) 44
Text C The Pleasure ofReading(阅读乐趣) 49
Unit 5 54
Text A Reading Can Be Made Easy(阅读并不难) 54
Text B Loneliness(寂寞) 57
Text C A Laconic Answer(简洁的回答) 62
Text A How to Become an Effective Reader?(如何有效阅读) 65
Unit 6 65
Text B CanStress Make You Sick?(压力是否会带来疾病) 68
Text C Address at Gettysburg(葛底斯堡演说) 74
Unit 7 77
Text A Introducing SQ3R(SQ3R导言) 77
Text B Linguistics(语言学) 80
Text C Hinduism and Buddhism(印度教与佛教) 86
Unit 8 90
Text A SQ3R(预测、提问、阅读、检查、背诵) 90
Text B Ancient Artifacts and Ancient Air(出土文物与保护措施) 94
Text C Lincoln s Autobiography(林肯自传) 99
Unit 9 103
Text A Building Your Vocabulary(扩大词汇量) 103
Text B HistoryofBiology(生物学简史) 106
Text C The Cop and the Anthem(警察与赞美诗) 112
Unit 10 118
Text A Learning New Words:3 Methods(学习新词的三种方法) 118
Text B Are Books an Endangered Species?(书籍会消失吗?) 123
Text C A True Instinct for the Beautiful(让爱美的天性常在) 128
Text A Vocabulary in Context(上下文中的词汇) 131
Unit 11 131
Text B Who Are the British?(英国人的来历) 134
Text C The Ambitious Guest (抱负远大的客人) 140
Unit 12 146
Text A Context Clues(上下文线索) 146
Text B The Growth ofthe USA(美国的成长) 150
Text C The Secret ofTrue Happiness(真正幸福的密诀) 156
Unit 13 161
Text A Word Structure(构词法) 161
Text B Animal Language(动物语言) 166
Text C SirWalterRaleigh(沃尔特·雷利爵士) 173
Unit 14 179
Text A Meanings ofWords(词汇的意义) 179
Text B Cooperative Efforts in the World(携手共进) 184
Text C A Lesson ofLiving(生活教训) 190
Unit 15 194
Text A Denotation and Connotation(字面意思和引申意思) 194
Text B The Kremani Prophecies(克莱曼尼预言) 198
Text C The Unicorn in the Garden(花园里的独角兽) 204
Text A Using a Dictionary(如何使用词典) 208
Unit 16 208
Text B Mom,You Never Told Me(妈妈,你从未告诉过我) 212
Text C Salvation(拯救) 217
Unit 17 222
Text A Reading with Comprehension(阅读理解) 222
Text B The Land ofthe Lock(锁之国) 226
Text C The Handsome and Deformed Leg(漂亮的腿和畸形的腿) 231
Unit 18 236
Text A Main Ideas in Paragraphs(段落大意) 236
Text B The Open Window(敞开的窗户) 241
Text C The Spell(咒语) 249
Unit 19 255
Text A How to Read a Paragraph?(如何读懂段落) 255
Text B How to Sell Yourself with a Résumé?(如何自我推销) 258
Text C Charles(顽童“查尔斯”) 266
Unit 20 275
Text A Recognizing Paragraph Patterns(识别段落模式) 275
Text B Ethnocentrism(民族优越感) 280
Text C Clothes Make the Man(人靠衣裳马靠鞍) 287
Keys 292
Bibliography 299