PASSAGE 1 Yellow Fever

PASSAGE 2 Intelligence in Animals

PASSAGE 3 Electronic Burglar Alarms

PASSAGE 4 America's New Recession

PASSAGE 5 The Discovery of a Sunken Ship

PASSAGE 6 Man Hunters of the USA

PASSAGE 7 Frank Turner

PASSAGE 8 The Interaction of Body and Mind

PASSAGE 9 The Land and the People

PASSAGE 10 Supermarkets

PASSAGE 11 Sex on the Job

PASSAGE 12 From the Other Side of the Generation Gap

PASSAGE 13 A Virtual University

PASSAGE 14 WTO Finds US Trade Damaged by EU Beef Import Ban

PASSAGE 15 Two Major Parties in Britain

PASSAGE 16 Reeds, Pens and Beyond

PASSAGE 17 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth

PASSAGE 18 How Hurricanes Get Their Names

PASSAGE 19 Indo-European Languages

PASSAGE 20 Death.a Part of Life

PASSAGE 21 Tame Volcanoes

PASSAGE 22 The Secret Language of Barrier Signals

PASSAGE 23 The Birth of Jesus

PASSAGE 24 The Man with the Jade Mask

PASSAGE 25 The Piece of String

PASSAGE 26 Robert Baden-Powell, Secret Agent

PASSAGE 27 Stuck on Stamps

PASSAGE 28 The American Tax System

PASSAGE 29 We Are Not a Nation of Tax Cheats

PASSAGE 30 Insurance

PASSAGE 31 Investment Banking Companies

PASSAGE 32 Weather Catastrophe-Then and Now?

PASSAGE 33 Bittersweet Companions

PASSAGE 34 Safeguarding Life

PASSAGE 35 The Red Data Books

PASSAGE 36 The First Ecologists

PASSAGE 37 Twins,Genes and Environment

PASSAGE 38 The Antler Riddle

PASSAGE 39 Beneath the Canopy

PASSAGE 40 Paralinguistic Communication

APPENDIX Keys, Notes and Vocabulary

《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年获中国大学出版社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。

　　本册的重点是运用第一册学到的基本阅读技巧，千方百计扩大词汇量，提高阅读速度和理解率。本册每篇文章后都注明有单词数，以便教师按教学大纲规定的阅读速度组织教学。首先教师要求学生在规定的时间里读完课文并做完第一大练习题（理解题），然后检查答案。课文后还有很多其他练习题，除了快速阅读以外，教师在本册中要特别注重cloze test，因为它是对学生语言能力的综合检测。在做这道题时，教师不能只对答案，而应教给学生如下技巧：上下文线索、习惯搭配、语法知识及常识。利用好这四条技巧，做题时一般能做对70％～80％。同时也要重视综合改错题，做改错题的技巧与做完形填空题的技巧基本相同。