《21世纪大学新英语快速阅读》旨在帮助学生进行系统的、有针对性的快速阅读训练,掌握基本阅读技能,培养良好阅读习惯,提高阅读效率。选材方面,我们力求所选文章兼备时代性、信息性、趣味性以及可读性,语言难度适中,其体裁和题材体现多样性,话题涵盖中西文化、教育、生活、媒介、历史、科技、哲学、文学等。练习方面,我们主要是以现行大学英语四六级考试中快速阅读题型为主,又适当增加其他形式的题型:既有选择填空、对错判断和填空等基本题型,又有匹配、简短回答、摘要以及翻译等练习。本书由方卫等主编。
Unit 1 LOVE WORKS MIRACLES
Passage 1 Love Works a Miracle
Passage 2 Because I Care About You
Passage 3 An Old Man's Love Works Ordinary Miracles
Unit 2 HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE
Passage 1 Being Happy After Losing Money
Passage 2 How to Find Happiness Within Yourself When Life's Got You Down
Passage 3 Ten Ways to Be Happier
Unit 3 THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED OUR LIFE
Passage 1 How the Internet Has Changed Our Everyday Life7
Passage 2 What the Net Has Not Changed
Passage 3 A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks
Unit 4 THE JOY OF READING
Passage 1 What Reading Really Means to Me
Passage 2 One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success
Passage 3 How Schools Are Destroying the Joy of Reading
Unit 5 GENERATION GAP
Passage 1 Retaining Quality Gen Ys
Passage 2 Generation Gap? "Online Gap" Widens Divide Between Parents and Children
Passage 3 Car Generation Gap: Five Ways Our Autos Have Changed
Unit 6 POSITIVE LIFE ATTITUDE
Passage 1 Think Positive -- Be a Success
Passage 2 My Journey Towards a Positive Life Attitude
Passage 3 Attitude Determines Altitude
Unit 7 RACISM AND SEXISM
Passage 1 A Cure for Racism in America: Seeing People As Individuals
Passage 2 Sexism in America and How You Can Stop It
Passage 3 Not the Kind of Racism You Hear About Often
Unit 8 LIFIE'S LESSON
Passage 1 It Doesn't Concern You7
Passage 2 16 Critical Lessons You Didn't Learn in School
Passage 3 The Seed
APPENDIX
Keys and Answers