本书注重阅读技能和阅读理解能力的培养，在选材上注意更加贴近生活，增加趣味性、知识性和实用性。帮助英语学习者掌握合理的方法、扩大文化视野。本书由十个单元和三套综合测试题及答案构成。每个单元包括阅读技巧、课文及练习、练习答案以及开心园地等内容。

本教材注重阅读技能和阅读理解能力的培养，在选材上注意更加贴近生活，增加趣味性、知识性和实用性。帮助英语学习者掌握合理的方法、扩大文化视野。本书由十个单元和三套综合测试题及答案构成。每个单元包括阅读技巧、课文及练习、练习答案以及开心园地等内容。

Unit 1

 Reading Skill : Word Formation : Prefix

 Text Reading: Conversations with a Gorilla

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 A Joke

Unit 2

 Reading Skill : Word Formation: Suffix

 Text Reading: Bricklayer's Boy

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 A poem

Unit 3

 Reading Skill: Word Formation: Stems

 Text Reading: Denmark Inherits the Wind

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

Unit 4

 Reading Skill: Restatement, Untrue Statement and Inference (Part I)

 Text Reading: Was There a Golden Age?

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Quotations

Unit 5

 Reading Skill: Restatement, Untrue Statement and Inference (Part II)

 Text Reading: The Art of Making a Serious Conversation

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Jokes

Unit 6

 Reading Skill: Prediction

 Text Reading: The Midnight Visitor

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 A poem

Unit 7

 Reading Skill. Skimming

 Text Reading: Another Reason to Be Nice: It'll Get You Far on the Job

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Idioms

Unit 8

 Reading Skill: Scanning

 Text Reading: Elizabeth I

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Important Events in American History

Unit 9

 Reading Skill : Outlining

 Text Reading: Managing the Rainforests

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Quotations

Unit 10

 Reading Skill: A Review

 Text Reading : Two Ways of Looking at Life

 Background

 Vocabulary

 Text

 Notes

 Practice

 Translation

 Key

 Supplementary Reading

Integrated Tests

Key to Integrated Tests