阅读能力的培养是大学英语教学的一个重要目标，快速、准确地从阅读材料中获得所需的信息更是每一个外语学习者所应该具备并孜孜以求的外语技能之一。新一轮的大学英语教学改革特别强调培养学生实际使用英语的能力，尤其是通过多种阅读渠道获得知识和信息的能力。该书可供大学英语四级水平以上、有较高阅读需求的读者使用，并引导学生享受阅读，强化阅读技能，提高阅读速度，扩大知识面，增强思辨能力，培养自主学习能力。

Unit One The Value of Education

 Text 1 What True Education Should Do

 Text 2 Is Prestige Worth It?

 Text 3 How Much That College Degree Is Really Worth

Unit Two Food Choices

 Text 1 Yesterday Today

 Text 2 "Slow Food" Movement Aims at Restoring the Joy of Eating

 Text 3 What Else Influences Eating?

Unit Three E-mail

 Text 1 We've Got Mail -- Always

 Text 2 The Insidious Evil of Spam

 Text 3 E-mail Is Ruining My Life!

Unit Four Mysteries

 Text 1 The Bermuda Triangle --A Mystery of the Ocean

 Text 2 The Nazca Lines

 Text 3 Mysteries of Egypt

Unit Five Chinese Calligraphy

 Text 1 The Origin of Chinese Characters

 Text 2 Chinese Calligraphy

 Text 3 Calligraphy Sage Wang Xizhi

Unit Six Animals

 Text 1 Top Animal Cheats

 Text 2 A Meeting

 Text 3 Can Animals Think about Themselves?

Unit Seven Money

 Text 1 Money Changes Everything

 Text 2 Rich Dad, Poor Dad

 Text 3 The Role of Money in Our Life

Unit Eight War

 Text 1 The Atom Bomb, Einstein and Me

 Text 2 Women and Children in the Silent War

 Text 3 War's Impact at Home Falls Hard on Relative Few

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