本书精选60篇文章供学生阅读，让学生在阅读与欣赏的过程中增长知识、提高修养、了解英语语言和文化。

本书分7个版块组织文章，有引人入胜、耐人寻味的故事，有情绪激昂的演说，有励志的名人轶事和传记，也有富有哲理让人掩卷深思的散文，还有与人类息息相关的高新科技和脍炙人口的英美诗歌，等等。文章长度、难度适中，注重思想性、知识性、趣味性和欣赏性，内容健康向上。每篇文章附有适当的注释和难句翻译，免去学生阅读过程中因查找生词而造成的许多不便。此外，对文中精彩之笔进行适当点评，帮助学生理解学习和欣赏。本书是学生课余生活的良师益友，具有收藏价值。也是教师检查学生课外阅读的一本理想的辅助配套教材。

Part One Interesting Stories

1. The Watch

2. The Beau Catcher

3. Fool's Paradise

4. The Perfect Match

5. Written in the Stars

6. A Sandpiper to Bring You Joy

7. My First Job

8. After Twenty Years

9. Selfless Support

10. A Good Heart to Lean On

Part Two Biographies of Celebrated Persons

l. Whatever Love Means--Diana

2. I Live Entirely in My Music--Beethoven

3. Bill Gates in His Boyhood

4. Humorous Franklin

5. Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln

6. Alfred Nobel--A man of Contrasts

7. For Blooming in Wards--Nightingale

8. The God in Youth--Michael Jordan

9. Gift for Music--Leonard Bernstein

10. Whose Lead Should I Follow?

Part Three Famous Speeches

 l. Our Family Creed

2. An Open Letter to My Daughter

3. Owning Books

4. Students, You Represent Our Best Hope

5. Bush's Victory Speech (excerpt)

6. First Inaugural Address (excerpt)

7. Remarks to Students and Community of Beijing University(excerpt)

8. Five Traits of the Educated Man

9. The Road to Success

10. I Have a Dream

Part Four Literary Masterpieces

1. Pride and Prejudice (excerpt)

2. Jane Eyre(excerpt)

3. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(excerpt)

4. The Old Man and the Sea (excerpt)

5. The Scarlet Letter(excerpt)

6. Romeo and Juliet

7. Sense and Sensibility (excerpt)

8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( Chapter I1 )

9. Treasure Island ( Chapter V )

10. Gone with the Wind( Chapter 63 )

Part Five Elegant Proses

1. Learning How to Be Roommates

2. If the Dream Is Big Enough, the Facts Don't Count

3. The Best Kind of Love

4. Education Does Count

5. Attitude Is Everything

6. Of Study

7. Why I Teach?

8. What Successful People Have in Common

9. Three Days to See

10. The First Snow

Part Six Classic Poems

1. A Red, Red Rose

2. My Grandmother's Love Letters

3. The Daffodils

4. She Walks in Beauty

5. Meeting at Night

Part Seven Science and Technology

1. How to Fight Fatigue?

2. Artificial Intelligence

3. The Secret of Getting Taller

4. Body Talk

5. Too Fast?

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