要提高阅读速度，就要采取正确的方法，摒弃那些不利于提高阅读速度的不良习惯，如阅读时嘴巴随视线的移动而逐词默读或轻轻地将每个词读出声来，因为这样会大大影响阅读速度。同样，用手指指着单词逐一地往前移也是不可取的，因为这和逐词默读一样也会使我们的阅读速度减慢。郭杰克编著的《全新版大学英语(附光盘快速阅读3第2版十二五普通高等教育本科国家级规划教材)》共分为8个单元，其中每个单元由A-1、A-2和B-1、B-2四篇短文组成。每个单元的A-1和B-1供课堂使用，A-2和B-2供课外阅读。

Unit 1

 Text A-1  Why I Love the City

 Text A-2  People on the Move

 Text B-1  Caution: Bumpy Road Ahead

 Text B-2  Memory Lane lsn't What lt Used to Be

Unit 2

 TextA-1 Frederick Douglass

 TextA-2 Best of Friends,Worlds Apart

 TextB-1 Coming to an Awareness of Language

 TextB-2 She Wanted to Teach

Unit 3

 Text A-1  Brave New World of Biometrics

 Text Ao2  Fingerprints Instead of Credit Cards

 Text B-1  Black Box Tells Its Secrets

 Text B-2  The Deli

Unit 4

 TextA-1 Everything Equals E=mc2

 TextA-2 Black Holes

 TextB-1 The Cosmos

 TextB-2 Stars

Unit 5

 Text A-1  The Cost-Benefit Principle

 Text A-2  The Economics of Product Design

 Text B-1  Lawyers and Professors and Cars and Clothing

 Text B-2  Why Do 'Almost New" Used Cars Sell for So Much Less

Than Brand-new Ones?

Unit 6

 TextA-1 The First Read

 TextA-2 The Gift

 TextB-1 Peanuts Creator Schulz Dies on Eve of Last Strip

 TextB-2 Linda's New Friend

Unit 7

 Text A-1  Starting Your Own Business

 Text A-2  A Team Leader

 Text B-1  Working for Fun and Profit

 Text B-2  The Carpet Fitter

Unit 8

 TextA-1 Atree Project Helps the Genes of Champions Live On

 TextA-2 Cloning

 TextB-1 Engineers Ask Nature for Design Advice

 TextB-2 Flowers in the Desert?

Appendix

Key to Comprehension Exercises