《英语阅读技巧与实践》是为高等学校英语专业学生编写的一套阅读(以前称为泛读)教材。全套书共7册，既可供英语专业本、专科生使用，也可供教师进修学院、函授大学和夜大的英语专业学员使用。

本书为其中之一的《计时阅读2》分册。

《英语阅读技巧与实践》系高等院校英语专业阅读课系列教材，2001年获国家级教学成果二等奖；2005年获中国大学出版协会优秀教材一等奖；2006年被教育部确定为普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材。

PASSAGE 1 Hunting for Viruses on the Amazon

PASSAGE 2 Owls

PASSAGE 3 Canada 

PASSAGE 4 Climate and Vegetation

PASSAGE 5 Mass Production

PASSAGE 6 Like Father, Like Son?

PASSAGE 7 Zoos in the Past and Now

PASSAGE 8 The Balance of Nature

PASSAGE 9 A Famous Speech

PASSAGE 10 The Marketplace on the Internet

PASSAGE 11 Tips on Doing Business with the Arabs

PASSAGE 12 The British Police and the American Police

PASSAGE 13 The San Francisco Earthquake

PASSAGE 14 Television

PASSAGE 15 New England

PASSAGE 16 How Is Leather Made?

PASSAGE 17 The Pennsylvania Dutch

PASSAGE 18 Living a Long Life

PASSAGE 19 Texas

PASSAGE 20 The Female Mosquito

PASSAGE 21 A Marriage of Convenience

PASSAGE 22 Rabies

PASSAGE 23 A Library Mishap

PASSAGE 24 Dreams--What Do They Mean?

PASSAGE 25 Knowing Everybody in Bardfield by Sight

PASSAGE 26 A Meeting about a Flower Show

PASSAGE 27 The Earth's Spreading Deserts

PASSAGE 28 Alfred Nobel-a Man of Contrast

PASSAGE 29 How to Cope with Insomnia?

PASSAGE 30 Darwin's Theory

PASSAGE 31 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer?

PASSAGE 32 Down the Mine

PASSAGE 33 Shooting an Elephant

PASSAGE 34 Chinese-Americans: Success of an Ethnic Group

PASSAGE 35 Cigarettes

PASSAGE 36 Faithful Hachiko

PASSAGE 37 The Three Brothers

PASSAGE 38 The Two Generals

PASSAGE 39 The Marvels of Colour

PASSAGE 40 Pollution: a Threat to our Environment