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1)

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. SpaceShipOne

2. Mother' s Day

3. Pale Male

4. Texas Rangers

5. Online Education

6. American Flag

7. Black History Month

8. A Liquid Crop

9. Highways and Freeways

10. Popular Books

11. "Gone With the Wind"

12. Valentine' Day

13. Cherry Trees

14. "Living Fossil"

15. Americans on the Move

16. May Day in America

17. Personal Postage Stamps

18. World Environment Day

19. Food Safety in America

20. Trial by Jury

21. McDonald' s Anniversary

22. New Year' s Eve Ball

Drop

23. Top Movies

24. TOEFL

25. Military Colleges

26. Medical School

27. Harvard University

28. M.I.T.

29. Cost to Study in the U.S.

30. Health Insurance

31. Where to Live

32. Teaching Assistants

33. Alcohol Ban at University

34. Universities in the U.S.

35. IPod Experiment at Duke

36. Act Against Education Law

37. Compare Education

Systems

38. Jobs for New Graduates

39. Teachers or Tutors

40. Freshman Fifteen

41. Steve Fossett

42. The facebook.com

43. "Chronicles,Volume One"

44. Makeover Home Edition

45. April Fool's Day

46. Children to Children

47. Abraham Lincoln

48. Unusual Laws

49. World Series of Poker

50. Last "Star Wars" Movie

51. Most Populous State

52. Turkeys and Thanksgiving

53. Simple Mousetrap

54. Solar Food Dryer

55. Raising Sheep

56. Identity Theft

57. When Give Back Money

58. Carbon Trading

59. Personal Bankruptcy

60. When Newspapers Lie

61. Pilots' Pension

62. Strengthening the Agency

63. "Most Powerful

Woman in Business"

64. Top the Fortune 500

65. NYSE for Electronic

66. Investigate Competition

67. The Great Crash

68. Boeing and Airbus

69. Sears and Kmart

70. Holiday Shopping

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