朗文英语快速阅读进阶是一套旨在提高学生的阅读兴趣、扩展学生的词汇量、帮助学生掌握阅读技巧的非常系统的英语阅读丛书。该丛书的最大特点是选材新颖，融知识与趣味于一体。该丛书是按照初级、中级、中高级至高级四个阶段进行编排的。本书为中级篇。
本书共分8个单元。每单元由三四篇相同主题的阅读文章组成，有助于学生对同一主题从不同的视角进行探究，从而提高学生的分析能力和思辨能力。高效的词汇技能练习拓展学生的词汇量，从而使学生从容的应对新词汇。阅读技能练习指导学生掌握阅读策略，从而使学生成功的阅读不同风格和流派的文章！读和写有机的结合在一起全面提高语言应用技能！
Introduction
UNIT 1 CROSS－CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
1.Kissing Your Way around the Worid
2.International Gesture Dictionary
3.The Bean Cake and the Broom
Tying It All Together
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UNIT 2 PLAYING TO WIN
1.Looking Back
2.Following a Dream
3.On Top of Her Game
4.The Olympic Games
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UNIT 3 UNIVERSAL MYSTERlES
1.The Mystery Statues of Easter Island
2.The Nazca Lines
3.Frozen in Time
4.NASA Listens for Space Aliens
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UNIT 4 OUR FRAGILE PLANET
1.One Family with the Earth
2.Too Many Mouths to Feed?
3.Our Endangered Wildlife
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UNIT 5 GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
1.Levi's Gold
2.Smells Sell!
3.The Gender-Spender Gap
4.Nothing but the Truth
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UNIT 6 THE POWER OF MUSlC
1.Slow Music Soothes the Savage Appetite
2.HOW Muzak Manipulates You
3.Ray Charles
4.Music's Surprising Power to Heal
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UNIT 7 ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS?
1.Superstitions
2.Knock on Wood
3.What Will Tomorrow Bring?
4.It's Jinxed!
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UNIT 8 OUR SHRINKING WORLD
1.Jobs in a Shrinking World
2.Franglais?NO Way!
3.The Benefits of Multilingualism
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