目录第一部分 判断阅读能力 PART ONE Diagnosing Your Reading Ability 1
Exercise 1:Diagnostic Vocabulary Test 3
Exercise 2:Diagnostic Reading Test 10
第二部分 提高辨词速度 PART TWO Increasing Your Word-Recognition Speed 18
Exercise 3:Word Recognition 20
Exercise 4:Word Recognition-Continued 23
Exercise 5:Word-Pair Recognition 26
第三部分 提高理解词义的速度 PART THREE Increasing Your Word-Comprehension Speed 29
Exercise 6:Word Comprehension 30
Exercise 7:Sames and Opposites 32
第四部分 提高理解句子的速度 PART FOUR Increasing Your Sentence-Comprehension Speed 34
Exercise 8:Sentence Completion 35
Exercise 9:Reading Sentences for General Meaning 41
第五部分 整段阅读，领会中心思想 PART FIVE Reading Paragraphs for Central Idea 45
Exercise 10:Reading for Central Idea 48
第六部分 整段阅读，全面理解 PART SIX Reading Paragraphs for Full Understanding 69
Exercise 11:Paragraph Comprehension 71
第七部分 阅读整篇文章 PART SEVEN Reading the Whole Composition 92
Exercise 12:Noah Webster 95
Exercise 13:ProfessorAgassiz andthe Fish 100
Exercise 14:Scandinavian Influence on the English Vocabulary 105
第八部分 浏览法——通过阅读来找出特定资料 PART EIGHT Reading to Locate Specific Information:Scanning 110
Exercise 15:Scanning ShortParagraphs 113
Exercise 16:Scanning an Article 124
第九部分 使用字典 PART NINE Using the Dictionary 131
Exercise 17:Finding Information in the Dictionary 133
Exercise 18:“Catchwords” 139
Key to the Exercises 143
Reading-Time Conversion Table for Exercises 2，12，13，14 148