宋军主编的《新编大学英语快速阅读》(第4册)是根据教育部新颁布的《大学英语课程教学要求》编写而成，适用于大学二年级(下)非英语专业学生或具有同等英语水平的阅读爱好者。本册教材编写目的是，通过积极主动的快读训练，帮助学生扩大英语词汇量，提高快速浏览能力、准确猜词能力、独立分析能力和归纳总结能力。本册教材编写严谨，具有高度的科学性、合理性和实用性。

Unit 1

Passage 1 My Life on the Court

Passage 2 Your Airline Wants to Get to Know You

Passage 3 More than One Way to the Square

Passage 4 Can Nurses Care Too Much?

Unit 2

Passage 1 Obama

Passage 2 Margaret Thatcher

Passage 3 Bill Gates

Passage 4 Diana, Princess of Wales

Unit 3

Passage 1 The Internet--the Best Place to Learn English

Passage2 Quality Schools

Passage 3 Successful Job Interviews

Passage 4 Thinking Revolution

Unit 4

Passage 1 Delivering Food in a College Community

Passage 2 Tips to Maximizing Your College Budget

Passage 3 Landing a Part-time Job

Passage 4 Do You Need a Gap Year?

Unit 5

Passage 1 April Fool's Day

Passage 2 Hello, Everybody

Passage 3 End of an Era

Passage 4 Bridal Showers

Unit 6

Passage 1 Phelps's Mother Helps Her Son Find Gold-Medal Focus

Passage 2 Jet Li's One Foundation

Passage 3 Saving Private Ryan

Passage 4 Civil Rights Movements

Unit 7

Passage 1 Gender Issues in Health & Medicine

Passage 2 Prenuptial Agreements

Passage 3 Ethics Issue for Citizen Snappers

Passage 4 Euthanasia

Unit 8

Passage 1 Difficult Behavior in Adolescents

Passage 2 Anxiety: How to Deal with it

Passage 3 Saying No to the Net

Passage 4 Up the Ladder, Step by Step

Unit 9

Passage 1 Growing Cities and their Environment

Passage 2 Fighting' over Freshwater

Passage 3 Climate Change in Action

Passage 4 The Next Generation of Biofuels

Unit 10

Passage 1 The Dream of Geophysicists

Passage 2 The Unpredictable Computer

Passage 3 Fight Stress and Keep the Weight Off

Passage 4 The Future of Man--How Will Evolution Change Humans?

Key to Comprehension Exercises