本书为湖北省教育厅社会科学研究“十五”规划项目“情感因素在商务英语教学中的研究”成果之一。书中提供了各种商务实用文体及大量商务报刊文章，取材真实，体裁多样，有助于进行有效的阅读训练；技巧训练设计新颖，可操作性强，编排上有利于课堂教学和自学；同时附有BEC考试样题及题型分析，以期提高广大考生的应试能力。

全书共有八个章节，分为四大部分：第一部分是商务英语阅读基本方法训练；第二部分是商务专业阅读；第三部分详细介绍了剑桥商务英语证书初级、中级和高级考试的考试内容和应试技巧；第四部分为补充读物。

Chapter One Are You Ready?

 1.1 What Are Your Reading Habits?

 1.2 Good Habits for Business Reading

 1.3 Get Rid of Bad Reading Habits

 1.4 Identifying Skill Requirement

Chapter Two "Three T" Principle in Business Reading

 2. 1 Identify the Type of the Text

 2. 2 Find Out the Theme of the Text

 2. 3 Sort Out the Trace in the Text

 2.4 More Practice

Chapter Three Skimming

 3.1 General Consideration of Skimming

 3.2 How to Skim

 3.3 More Practice

Chapter Four Scanning

 4. 1 General Consideration of Scanning

 4.2 How to Scan

 4.3 More Practice

Chapter Five Deducing

 5.1 Guess Unknown Words

 5.2 Read Between the Lines

 5.3 More Practice

Chapter Six Charts and Tables Reading

 6. 1 Line Charts, Bar Charts & Pie Charts

 6. 2 Flow Charts

 6. 3 Organization Structures

 6. 4 Tables

 6. 5 More Practice

Chapter Seven Business Journals Reading

 7.1 How to Read Headlines -- Starting from the Top of the Pyramid

 7.2 How to Read Lead -- Sliding Down the Pyramid

 7.3 How to Read Body -- Sloping Downwards the Pyramid

 7.4 More Practice

Chapter Eight A Detailed Guide to BEC

 8.1 A Detailed Guide to BEC Preliminary

 8.2 A Detailed Guide to BEC Vantage

 8.3 A Detailed Guide to BEC Higher

Chapter Nine Supplementary Reading

 9. 1 Intensive Reading

 9.2 Reading Practice for BEC Vantage

 9.3 Extensive Reading

Appendices

 Appendix Ⅰ Sample Paper (BEC Preliminary)

 Appendix Ⅱ Sample Paper (BEC Vantage)

 Appendix Ⅲ Commercial Abbreviations

 Appendix Ⅳ 2009 Fortune Top 20

 Appendix Ⅴ Major World Media

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