本书根据《普通高中英语课程标准》规定的三大主题语境的主题进行选文，全面覆盖“人与自我”“人与社会”和“人与自然“三大方面。本书为高二学生提高英语阅读和素养能力，从而迎战新高考。适用于高二（上）。本书是以“阅读训练”模式呈现的，并配有两套模拟题，完全衔接高考模式，文章词数完全与高考配套。通过阅读这套书，不但能够提升阅读能力，还能够培养学生的综合素养。

林立，硕士研究生导师，英语教育专家，曾编写多部英语学习书籍，并出版《第二语言习得研究》等专著。参加研究项目：“中学生学习规律与方法研究”“听说读写中听力领先教学改革”等。

第一周 What Is Self-Confidence and Why Is It Important?
Know the Value You Bring
Start a Family
2017全国卷B（新课标2）
Hiccups
Brain Food
第二周 Healthful Sleeping
2018全国卷B（新课标2）
Don't Cut the Arts
Earworm
Feeling Blue? Play Some Music
2020全国卷B（新课标2）
What Is the Process of Personal Growth and
Development?
阅读技巧训练（一)阅读学词汇·上下文获词义
第三周 How Do You Learn Personal Growth?
The Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
2018全国卷C（新课标2）
Nouns
Sentence Fragments in a Paragraph
Contractions, Possessives, and Plurals
第四周 From Slave to Inventor
Teaching My Child a Lesson in Giving
A Plane in the Hudson River
Kristi Yamaguchi
Indian Life and Adventure
阅读技巧训练（二）阅读学词汇·构词法猜词义
第五周 The Seeing Eye
2018天津卷D
Dangerous Jobs
Everyone Loves a Bargain
Heidemarie Schwermer
A Tasty Accident
第六周 A Little Can Go a Long Way
Oil from a Stone
2016全国卷B（新课标2）
Use Your Interpersonal Skills
Satisfy Your Caller
The Strength of Family
阅读技巧训练（三）阅读与理解·扫读
第七周 A New Town Crier
Ski Patrol
Collaboration
Trading Tusks
2019全国卷B（新课标2）
Get Involved in Your Community!
第八周 Hear Ye!Hear Ye!
Lessons in Mandarin Are Preparing U. S. Kids for
the Future
The Story of the Oval Portrait
Smiling Is Infectious
The Last of the Spirits
2019天津卷D
阅读技巧训练（四）阅读与理解·寻读获取信息
第九周 The CN Tower
Like Real Life
Unfinished Work?
A Musical Prodigy
Music Truly Soothes the Soul...
第十周 Non Piu Andrai
Ancient Greek PE
Skeleton on the Ice
Skipping Through History
2020全国Ⅰ卷C
Eating the Roman Way Today
阅读技巧训练（五）阅读与理解·段落主题
第十一周 Mushing During the Klondike Gold Rush
Cooking a Turkey
2016新课标卷Ⅲ
Soldier in Disguise
Woman of the Trees
Marching to the Sea
2018浙江卷A
第十二周 Medicine for Those in Need
The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia
Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read
Expired With a License
How to Study Law
阅读技巧训练（六)阅读与理解·文章结构
第十三周 The Ransom of Red Chief
Ancient and Modern Chinese Characters
Colossus of Rhodes
Osceola and the Indian Removal Act
Ephesus
第十四周 The Media and Body Image
Why and How Do We Help?
Obesity
The English Textile Industry
The Origin of the Chinese New Year
阅读技巧训练（七）阅读与思维·做结论
第十五周 The Imperial Academy
A Mystery in Macedonia
Civilization Under the Tang Dynasty
Mercury 13: Paving the Way for Women in Space
The Effect of Technological Advancement on Society
第十六周 The Gold Rush: Rise of the Golden State
The Science of Vacuums
What's the Forecasting?
2017全国卷C（新课标2）
The High Peaks of the Himalayas
The Rugged Rockies
阅读技巧训练（八）阅读与思维·比较与对比
第十七周 Forests of Clouds and Mist
Standing Tall and Strong
Conserving and Recycling
Mountain Gorillas: Going, Going, Almost Gone
A Bread Famine
第十八周 Scientists Find that Dogs Understand What You're Saying
Journey for Survival
Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant Between
New York and San Francisco
2017全国卷D（新课标2）
Mountain Mayhem
Here's the Spin on Tornadoes
阅读技巧训练（九）阅读与思维·推测和推断
第十九周 Extreme Weather
2018天津卷A
Acid in the Sky
Flowing Underground
Secrecy at Kartchner Caverns
2020全国卷C（新课标2）
Microbes: Friends or Foes?
第二十周 Anatomy of a Cell
The End of the Dinosaurs
Underground Mysteries
Rain in Space?
The End of the World?
阅读技巧训练（十）阅读与思维·原因与结果