王尚阁主编的《魅力英语：阅读（第2册）》本着扩大知识面和增强英语阅读水平的目标，为学生提供全面而系统的阅读技巧、阅读材料和习题训练，指导学生掌握多种阅读方法，学会快速而准确地寻找有效信息，并通过习题训练来培养判断、归纳、推理等逻辑思维能力。全书共计十六个单元，按照阅读方法分编成组。供高等学校英语专业一、二年级泛读课教学使用。

本教材紧跟时代的步伐，体现了新世纪英语教学的新特点，具有独特性、新颖性、创新性、实用性以及信息量大、趣味性强等优势。

Reading Skill: Finding Out the Main Idea

Unit 1 Education--StudyAbroad

 Section A Consider Studying Abroad

 Section B

 Section C Study Abroad--Myths & Misconceptions

Unit 2 Career

 Section A How to Beat the Competition and Get That Job!

 Section B

 Section C How to Create a Vision for Your Career

Unit 3 International Financial Organizations

 Section A The IMF at a Glance

 Section B

 Section C The Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Reading Skill: Reading Between the Lines (Drawing Inferences)

Unit 4 Culture Shaping the West

 Section A The Holy Bible

 Section B

 Section C Impact of Greek Mythology on Western Culture

Unit 5 Body Language

 Section A Using Body Language

 Section B

 Section C While You're Talking, What Is Your Body Saying?

Unit 6 Military

 Section A Russian Spy Scandal: Stranger Than Fiction

 Section B

 Section C Top 10 Famous Spies

Reading Skill: Distinguishing Facts from Opinions

Unit 7 News

 Section A Scientists Try to Calm "2012" Hysteria

 Section B

 Section C Top 10 Most Terrifying Natural Disasters in History

Unit 8 The U.S. Constitution

 Section A The Road to the U.S. Constitution

 Section B

 Section C Individual Rights and Liberties

Unit 9 A Healthy Lifestyle

 Section A Can Exercise Keep You Young?

 Section B

 Section C China's Health Care System

Reading Skill: Long and Complicated Sentences

Unit 10 Political System

 Section A Three Pillars of Government

 Section B

 Section C Pluralism and Democracy

Unit 11 Energy

 Section A Fat's Chance as a Renewable Diesel Fuel

 Section B

 Section C World Energy Needs and Nuclear Power

Unit 12 People Around Us

 Section A Turning THE PAGE

 Section B

 Section C My Unexpected Teacher

Unit 13 Environment

 Section A What Is Global Warming?

 Section B

 Section C New Gulf Oil Seeps Tied to Another Well

Reading Skill: Understanding Figurative Language

Unit 14 Safe Traveling

 Section A Travelwise: How to Eat Healthy on the Road

 Section B

 Section C Accidents & Hazards

Unit 15 Powerful Voice

 Section A Inaugural Address

 Section B

 Section C Obama Should Continue Tucson Speech Themes in State of the Union.

Unit 16 Prose

 Section A The Good Life

 Section B What I Lived For

Appendix

 Glossary