本套阅读教程为《大学体验英语（第四版）综合教程》配套用书，分为基础目标上册、下册和提高目标上册、下册，阅读量和难度逐级递增。本册为提高目标下册。每册设16个单元，有助于促进大学生知识、能力与综合素质的协调发展，促进大学英语的工具性与人文性的有机融合，并提升学生的英语应用能力、跨文化交际意识与能力、自主学习能力和综合文化素养。

Introduction to Important Reading Strategies and Skills
Unit 1 Learning
Text A Learning and the Brain
Text B Prehistoric Viruses and the Function of the Brain
Unit 2 Employer and Employee Satisfaction
Text A Resisting the Depersonalization of the Work Space
Text B Stupid Jobs Are Good to Relax with
Unit 3 Social Problems
Text A Workplace Violence Is a Source of and Reaction to Stress
Text B To Arm or Not to Arm
Unit 4 Traffic and Transportation
Text A Seat Belt Usage
Text B Self-driving Cars to Test City Limits
Unit 5 New Technologies
Text A New Technologies Create New Problems
Text B How to Use Your Laptop to Locate an Earthquake
Unit 6 Competition
Text A Knowledge-based Competition
Text B How Winning Leads to Cheating
Unit 7 Energy
Text A Energy Sources and Uses
Text B What Breakthroughs Do Biofuels Need?
Unit 8 Health
Text A Should Dentists Offer Health Screenings?
Text B A New Way to Detect Parkinson's -- by Smell
Unit 9 Forest and Nature
Text A Dry, Hot and Windy
Text B Drug Trafficking Poses Surprising Threats to Rain Forests
Unit 10 Ecosystem
Text A Can Ecosystems Be Restored?
Text B Ocean Heat Waves Are Getting Worse
Unit 11 Deserts
Text A Deserts
Text B Sahara
Unit 12 Tourist Attractions
Text A Grand Canyon National Park
Text B Death Valley's Harsh Environment Home to Beauty, Wonder
Unit 13 Public Concerns
Text A Privacy, Neither Absolute nor Highly Valued
Text B FaceApp, Aging and Loneliness
Unit 14 Invention
Text A About Crittercam
Text B Steven Jobs
Unit 15 Environment
Text A European Youth Face Environmental Hazards
Text B What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?
Unit 16 Living Species
Text A Warming to Extinction
Text B Pesticides Are Killing offthe Andean Condor
Answer Keys