《大学英语快速阅读教程(4)》由宋军主编,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。
本教程编写目的是,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。
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
Passage 2 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 The 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