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 COLLEGE LIFE
Passage 1 Once a Goal, Then a Reality
Passage 2 Getting Along with Your Teachers
Passage 3 Can College Friendship Last Forever?
Unit 2 LANGUAGE LEARNING
Passage 1 You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours
Passage 2 Variety Makes Learning English Enjoyable
Passage 3 Confident Body Language for the Woman of Today
Unit 3 TECHNOLOGY
Passage 1 I Have to Catch up
Passage 2 Smartphone: A Splendid Way to Improve Your English
Passage 3 How Technology Is Making Us Fatter?
Unit 4 CAREER PLANNING
Passage 1 Choosing the Ideal Career
Passage 2 Career Planning Tips
Passage 3 My Career Planning
Unit 5 LIFE PHILOSOPHY
Passage 1 10 Timeless Ways to Live a Happy Life
Passage 2 The Key to Wealth Is Being Satisfied with What You Already Have
Passage 3 My Life Philosophy: Love, Live and Learn
Unit 6 FAMILY
Passage 1 Family Stories with Morals: What Is a Family?
Passage 2 Raising a Child with Down Syndrome
Passage 3 Family
Unit 7 NO CROSS NO CROWN
Passage 1 Hold Your Head up High
Passage 2 Power to Inspire: Love Doesn't Stop
Passage 3 Rainbow After the Storm
Unit 8 CREATIVE WISDOM FROM MISTAKES
Passage 1 Writing Down the Fear of Making Mistakes
Passage 2 Just One Success in Life
Passage 3 Being Successful Through Mistakes
APPENDIX
Keys and Answers