《致用英语阅读教程》是供高职高专英语专业各个方向的学生使用的阅读教材。共有上下两册，每册18个单元。《致用英语阅读教程(上高职高专英语专业系列教材)》(主编宁毅)为其中的上册。在选材上该书注重阅读材料的趣味性、知识性，练习丰富，每单元设计了阅读技能讲解及练习，有助于扩大学生词汇量和知识面，提高阅读技能。

《致用英语 阅读教程》共两册。旨在通过大量的阅读实践、实用的阅读技能训练，全面提高学生的阅读能力。

每册包括10个主题单元和两个综合训练。

每单元包括和主题相关的两篇主课文和一篇补充阅读，使学生在完成基本的阅读训练的同时，接触多种题材和体裁的阅读文章，拓展知识面，扩充词汇量。

系统讲解阅读技巧，并结合课文中的实例进行练习和巩固，有效提高学生的阅读技能。

练习形式丰富多样，启发性强，注重培养学生的批判性思维能力。

《致用英语阅读教程(上高职高专英语专业系列教材)》为其中的上册。

《致用英语阅读教程(上高职高专英语专业系列教材)》的主编是宁毅。

Unit 1 College Education

 Passage A The Value of a College Education

 Passage B Another Education in University

 Reading Skills Skimming

 Supplementary Reading Universities and Their Function

Unit 2 Happiness

 Passage A Happiness Index

 Passage B Who Are the Happiest People？

 Reading Skills Scanning

 Supplementary Reading Black Beauty (Excerpt)

Unit 3 Sources of Beauty

 Passage A Is This Seat Taken？

 Passage B Reach for the Light

 Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Context

 Supplementary Reading The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpt)

Unit 4 Build up Blogs

 Passage A Tips on Writing Content for Your Blog

 Passage B Comments？ Comments... Comments！

 Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Word-building

 Supplementary Reading Ten Things I've Learned about Blogging

Unit 5 Kids and Family

 Passage A The Ring

 Passage B Driving Lesson

 Reading Skills Recognizing Words That Connect Ideas

 Supplementary Reading King Grisly-Beard (Excerpt)

Comprehensive Practice I

Unit 6 Touch of Life

 Passage A Everyday Is a Gift

 Passage B Letting Go of Yesterday

 Reading Skills Getting Ideas Sorted out by Critical Thinking

 Supplementary Reading Detour to Romance

Unit 7 Friendship

 Passage A In Praise of Best Friends

 Passage B A Friend Is

 Reading Skills Searching for the Main Idea

 Supplementary Reading Encounters with Manners (Excerpt)

Unit 8 Biography

 Passage A Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs (Excerpt)

 Passage B Bill Gates in His Boyhood

 Reading Skills Understanding References and Making Inferences

 Supplementary Reading The Master of Investment: Warren Buffett

Unit 9 Sports

 Passage A Coming a Long Way, in More Ways than One

 Passage B The Football Game

 Reading Skills Recognizing Patterns

 Supplementary Reading Around the World in Eighty Days (Excerpt)

Unit 10 Health

 Passage A A Simple Guide to Eating out Without Putting on Weight

 Passage B Vitamin Supplements--A Pill Is Not Always the Answer

 Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions

 Supplementary Reading Caught in the Web of the Internet

Comprehensive Practice II

Key to Exercises