本书在汇聚中外英语教学专家多年研究成果的基础上，为英语学习者提供了一条提高英语阅读能力和英语考试成绩的新途径。书中阐述了阅读的策略和实用方法，为从事英语阅读教学的教师和具有中级英语阅读水平的大学生全面系统地熟悉和掌握英语阅读策略和术语词汇，进一步提高阅读水平而著的。本书对英语阅读策略进行了逐一揭示，对如何写检验图、词汇表和页边注释，如何概述文章要点和摘要的方法进行了详细介绍。每章末尾都附有一篇原版的阅读材料，并且对所学的阅读策略进行复习和评价。阅读本书，不仅可以轻松地发现丰富多彩的英语阅读技巧，提高英语阅读能力，而且还可领略丰富多彩的异域文化，以加深对英语文化的了解与理解，培养文化意识。

Chapter One

Learn to Vary Your Reading Speed Whenever You Can

 Identify the Level of Difficulty of a Reading Assignment

Some Ways for Increasing Reading Speed

Efficient Reading: Five Strategies

 Reading Practice

 Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Chapter Two

Increase Your Reading Vocabulary

Motivations to Increase Your Vocabulary

The Basics of Vocabulary Improvement

Increasing Reading Vocabulary: Four Strategies

Reading Practice

Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Chapter Three

Recognize the Organization of Ideas

Some Common Formats 

Some Common Organizational Patterns

Make the Organization Visible on Maps or Outlines

Recognize Format and Organization: Four Strategies

Reading Practice

Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Chapter Four

Understand Main Ideas and Details

Reading and Understanding Sentences

How Authors Connect Sentences and Related Ideas

Reading and Understanding Paragraphs

Understanding the Main Ideas: Five Strategies

  Reading Practice

Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Chapter Five

Understand the Context, Purpose, Point of View

 A Shift of Focus 

 How to Recognize Argument

 Some Ways to Predict Controversy and Argument

 Understanding Context, Purpose, Point of View

 Five Strategies

 Reading Practice

Review and Evaluate the Strategies 

Chapter Six

Make Inferences and Analyze Values and Befiefs

Authors Expect You to Supply Both Literal

 Meaning and Inferential Meaning

 Make Inferences That Change the Literal Meaning

 Infer the Author's Values and Beliefs

 Making Inferences and Analyzing Assumptions:

 Five Strategies

Reading Practice

 Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Chapter Seven

 Organize a Study Reading Process, and Take Exams

 What Will You Study for Exams?

 How Will You Study for Exams?

 Getting Organized And Taking Exams: Four Strategies

 Reading Practice

 Review and Evaluate the Strategies

Answer Key for Exam on the Selection

Glossary

Bibliography