本系列教材是以《教学指南》为准则，在参考国内外多种英语快速阅读教材的基础上，根据编者多年从事大学英语快速阅读教学的经验，以及我国非英语专业本科生目前整体英语水平和实际英语能力编写而成。
教材共分五册，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，培养良好的阅读习惯，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、媒体、历史、科技、哲学、文学等。练习方面，我们主要以现行大学英语四六级考试中长篇阅读题型为主，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。目的是使学生在学习完本套教材后提高快速阅读部分的应试能力，同时又增强他们的信息搜索能力。每册书后附有本册练习的答案供师生参考。
本书共分八个单元，每个单元由Text A、Text B和Text C三篇文章组成。Text A和Text B供课堂使用，Text C供学生课外阅读。

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 Life?
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 LrFE 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 LIFE'S LESSON
Passage 1 It Doesn't Concern You?
Passage 2 Critical Lessons You Didn't Learn in School
Passage 3 The Seed
APPENDIX
Keys and Answers