本书是强化高中生短文阅读的英语学习书，由上海重点中学教师精心策划。该书是根据教育部制订的普通高中英语课程标准、并按照现行高考试卷的题型编写的，目的在于帮助高中学生迅速提高英语听力和阅读能力，顺利通过高考。(随书附赠光盘短文阅读2)

在英语高考听力和阅读试题中，短文的听力测试和阅读测试难度最高。如果通过系统训练，将英语短文的听读能力激活，那么其他方面的问题就会迎刃而解。

《高中英语能力激活》正是以英语短文的听读训练为特色，旨在培养学生正确理解语言难度中等的英语短文，通过一定的分析、推理和判断，掌握中心大意，了解作者观点。这对学生在高考中取得高分至关重要。

1．Business Organizations

2．Social Security(1)

3．Social Security(2)

4．Carlos Gutierrez

5．Lenovo Moves Up

6．Disney’S New Chief

7．Economic News(1)

8．Economic News(2)

9．Canning Food

10．Helping Children

11．AnnVeneman

1 2．Riecken Foundation

 Libraries

13．Gares Foundation

14．Fight Cholera

15．World Population Report

16．Save Babies

17．Solar Cookers

18．Fight Against Hunger

19．World Bank Plan

20．Calls for Health Workers

21．Some Conditions Worsening

22．Freezing Food

23．GoodYearfor U．S．Farmers

24．Locust Swarms

25．Integrated Pest

Management

26．Mixing Plants

27．No—Till Farming

28．Pure—line Breeding

29．Biotech Crops

30．Sugar Subsidies

31．Cafieine Withdrawal

32．Cancer Survival Rates

33．Moderate Alcohol Use

34．Smoke and Children

35．AIDS Vaccine Study

36．Plague Outbreak

37．Lead and Violence

38．Aspirin

39．World Tuberculosis Day

40．Prostate Gland

41．World Health Dav

42．Big Killer of Babies

43．Deadly Flu Virus

44．Vaccination Week

45. Meningitisn

46. Malaria Vaccine

47. Cell Phones and

Benign Tumors

48. Traffic and Heart Attacks

49. New Heart Drug

50. Flu Pandemic

51. World AIDS Day

52. Ozone Pollution

53. Sleep and Weight

54. Safety about Drugs

55. Helping Depressed

Mothers

56. Top News Stories

57. Aid for Tsunami Victims

58. Middle East Peace Prospects

59. Bush Second Term

60. Iraqi Elections

61. Debate About End-of-Life

62. Reduce Energy Costs

63. Increase in Violence

64. Oil-for-Food Program

65. Ukraine's Election

66. UN Reform Plan

67. Update on the Congo

68. Put Books on the Internet

69. Presidential Inaugurations

70. Einstein's Year

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