《英语阅读》是供高等院校英语专业基础阶段阅读课程使用的系列教材，也适用于非英语专业学生和中级英语学习者。本书为第1册。

教材编写以《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》为依据，内容由浅入深，力求达到大纲所规定的阶段终点阅读要求。教材编写吸收了国内外外语教学和教材编写理念的精髓，以阅读教学理论、第二语言习得理论、自主学习理论和任务型教学法理论为指导，融入外语教学研究的最新成果。

教材涵盖社会、政治、经济、文化、历史、新闻、宗教、体育、医药、文学、风土人情、科普知识等各个领域。知识面广，阅读量大。

《英语阅读》是高等院校英语专业基础阶段阅读课程使用的系列教材，也适用于非英语专业学生和中级英语学习者。

本套教材循序渐进地构建了系统的多元化人文知识体系，时代性、经典性、哲理性、学术性、世界性并重，涵盖社会、政治、经济、文化、历史、新闻、宗教、体育、医药、文学、风土人情、科普知识等各个领域。

英英注释文章的词汇、句子、语法、修辞、文化等知识点，便于学生扩大词汇量，快速理解课文，提高英语思维能力。

练习题型多样化，旨在加强学生的语言基本功训练，提高他们的阅读理解能力与语言应用能力。书后附有难题练习的参考答案，供教师和学生参考。

课堂教学与课外拓展阅读有机整合。教材介绍了一些有效的阅读方法，每单元配有与主题相关的英语同步阅读拓展资源，促使阅读教学朝着自主式学习方向发展。

《英语阅读》系列教材让学习者徜徉在英语世界的广阔天地中，采撷芬芳，咀嚼英华，并在英文氛围中潜移默化，享受阅读带来的乐趣。

Unit One A Guide to College Life and Study

 1. High School Versus College Life

 2. College Students and Homesickness

 3. Critical Mistakes Made by Most College Freshmen

 4. How to Be a Successful Language Learner?

 5. The SQ3R Method

 6. Efficient Reading Strategies

Unit Two Learning and Reading

 1. Selected Readings from The Analects

 2. An Exhortation to Learning (excerpts)

 3. Study

 4. Professional Skill

 5. The Delights of Books

 6. Companionship of Books

 7. It is Never Too Late for Success

Unit Three People

 1. Marie Curie

 Introduction

 Marie Curie: A Biography (excerpts)

 University Life

 Marriage and Home Life

 2. Helen Keller

 Introduction

 The Story of My Life (excerpts)

 Meeting with My Teacher Anne Sullivan

 Overcoming the Difficulty

 College Life

Unit Four Arts

 1. The Holly land of the American Movie Industry —— Hollywood

 2. The Academy Awards

 3. The Most Influential Film Festivals

 4. The Big Six —— Top 6 Major Film Studios in the Movie Business

 5. The Emmy Awards

 6. The Grammy Awards

 7. Audrey Hepburn

Unit Five Polities

 1. China showcases strength, vitality on 60th founding anniversary

 2. After Shenzhou Success, China Looks to the Future

 3. Tibet celebrates Serfs Emancipation Day

 4. 85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war

Unit Six Cyberculture

 1. Websites Connect Donors to Specific Needs

 2. Kids Embrace the Spirit of Giving

 3. Woven deep into our lives

 4. Internet addiction made an official disorder in China

Unit Seven Fables, Folktales, Fairy Tales

 1. The Golden Axe

 2. Three Apples

 3. The Shepherd Boy

 4. The Most Incredible Thing

 5. The Happy Prince

Unit Eight Adventure Novels

 1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 Plot Overview

 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 Plot Overview

 3. The Little Prince

 Plot Overview

Unit Nine World History I

 1. Origins of the Earth and Humans

 2. The Middle East

 3. Ancient Egypt

 4. Ancient Greece

Unit Ten Poems

 1. Tagore's Poems

Introduction

The Home

Benediction

On the Seashore

The Gift

Strong Mercy

Lotus

Lamp of Love

 2. Dickinson's Poems

Introduction

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

If I can stop one Heart from breaking

I'm nobody! Who are you?

The Brain — is wider than the Sky —

Success is counted sweetest

Key to the Exercises

Appendix 1 Conventions for Capitalizing Words of English News Headlines

Appendix 2 Timeline of World History (I)

Websites

References