Unit One PEOPLE

Reading A Elizabeth Ⅱ

Reading B More People and More Products

Reading C A Nation of Shoppers

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Alfred Nobel:A Man of Peace

阅读技能系列讲座（1）：What Is Reading Comprehension?

Unit Two FOOD

Reading A The New Food Fight

Reading B The Pleasures of Eating

Reading C Food Preservation

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:A Healthy Diet for Everyone

阅读技能系列讲座（2）：Classroom Procedures

Unit Three HOUSE

Reading A Building a House

Reading B A Roof over Our Heads

Reading C Flats

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:5 Biggest Home Repair Rip-Offs

阅读技能系列讲座（3）：Surveying the Chapter or Article

Unit Four SHOPPING

Reading A An English Christmas

Reading B Junk Hunting

Reading C How to Be a Powerful Consumer?

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:New Ways to Make a Bundle

阅读技能系列讲座（4）：What Are Some of the Organization Patterns That Authors Use?

Unit Five TRANSPORT

Reading A Just Plane Dangerous?

Reading B Artificial Waterways

Reading C Transportation

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Motoring Offences

阅读技能系列讲座（5）：How Do Authors Connect Sentences and Relate Ideas?

Unit Six ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Reading A Wars for Water?

Reading B Homeless on the Range

Reading C The Changing Face of the Arctic

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Ancient Artifacts and Ancient Air

阅读技能系列讲座（6）：What You Need to Do to Make Inferences

Unit Seven THE NATURAL WORLD

Reading A The Forest

Reading B The Whale

Reading C The Elephant

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Mars:Our Neighbor in Space

阅读技能系列讲座（7）：What You Need to Do to Make References

Unit Eight WEATHER AND CLIMATE

Reading A Air and Wind

Reading B What Makes the Weather

Reading C Meteorology

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Saving Lives with Weather Forecasting

阅读技能系列讲座（8）：What You Need to Do to Discover Persuasive Purpose,Controversy,and Point of View

Unit Nine ADMINISTRATION

Reading A Aristotle Got It Right

Reading B The Federal System of Government

Reading C Local Government in Britain

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Maps:The Keys to Our World

阅读技能系列讲座（9）：What You Need to Do to Analyze and Evaluate the Persuasive Techniques and Methods of Reasoning

Unit Ten THE MEDIA

Reading A Reuter

Reading B Informing the World

Reading C Television

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Lessons from Billy Graham

阅读技能系列讲座（10）：What You Need to Do to Improve Predicting,Previewing and Anticipation(1)

Unit Eleven CRIME

Reading A America's Dumbest Criminals

Reading B An Accident or a Crime?

Reading C Purse Snatching

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Solving Crimes with Modern Technology

阅读技能系列讲座（11）：What You Need to Do to Improve Predicting,Previewing and Anticipation(2)

Unit Twelve SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Reading A The Age of Cloning

Reading B Digital Divide

Reading C Industrial Automation

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:The World Expo

阅读技能系列讲座（12）：What You Need to Do to Improve Skimming and Scanning

Unit Thirteen ENTERTAINMENT

Reading A Biggest Season

Reading B Magic

Reading C Film

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:The Ancient Olympic Games

阅读技能系列讲座（13）：What You Need to Do to Improve Reading Speed and Flexibility(1)

Unit Fourteen ECONOMY

Reading A How the WTO Differs from the GATT

Reading B The Achievements of the Reform in China

Reading C Saving Money

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:The Paradox of Happiness

阅读技能系列讲座（14）：What You Need to Do to Improve Reading Speed and Flexibility(2)

Unit Fifteen HEALTH

Reading A Stress Busters That Can Save Your Life

Reading B How Nice to Be Clean

Reading C Obesity

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:Has Stress Pushed You into the Danger Zone?

阅读技能系列讲座（15）：Types of Reading Question

Unit Sixteen EDUCATION

Reading A Degrees of Prudence

Reading B Education out of School

Reading C The Development of Multiple-Choice Testing

USE OF ENGLISH

Topics for Discussion and Writing:A Cultural Difference:Being On Time

阅读技能系列讲座（16）：What You Need to Do to Take Tests

Key to Exercise

附录

阅读理解自测题（1）

自测题参考答案（1）

阅读理解自测题（2）

自测题参考答案（2）

阅读理解自测题（3）

自测题参考答案（3）

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