Unit One Efficient Reading

Lesson 1 Developing Your Reading Efficiency

Reading Selection A:World English:A Blessing or a Curse?

Reading Selection B:Jumble of Conflicting Language Taboos

Lesson 2 Developing Your Reading Flexibility

Reading Selection A:The New School Choice

Reading Selection B:We're Raising Children,Not Flowers

Lesson 3 Reading Rate

Reading Selection A:Whupping Fat Albert

Reading Selection B:Paging Dr.Carson

Unit Two Techniques for Efficient Reading

Lesson 4 Skimming:Reading for Main Ideas

Reading Selection A:The Transformation of Marriage

Reading Selection B:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast

Lesson 5 Scanning:Rapidly Locating Information

Reading Selection A:Science and Technology

Reading Selection B:Should We Improve Our Genome?

Lesson 6 Techniques for Reading Faster

Reading Selection A:Thank God It's Monday

Reading Selection B:Success

Unit Three Active Reading

Lesson 7 What Is Active Reading?

Reading Selection A:A Whole Nation and a People

Reading Selection B:The Ideal of Service

Lesson 8 Prereading

Reading Selection A:The Functions and Effects of Music

Reading Selection B:Whose Lead I Should Follow?

Lesson 9 Connections

Reading Selection A:The Weird World of Tobacco

Reading Selection B:Drunk Driver's Ed

Unit Four Techniques for Remembering What You Read

Lesson 10 Improving Your Concentration

Reading Selection A:American Values at the Crossroads

Reading Selection B:Sports and American Values

Lesson 11 Increasing Your Attention Span

Reading Selection A:A Case for Male Dishwashing

Reading Selection B:My Wife Belongs in the House

Lesson 12 Remembering What You Read

Reading Selection A:Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale?

Reading Selection B:How to Pursue Happiness

Unit Five Developing Your Word Power

Lesson 13 Expanding Your Vocabulary(1)

Reading Selection A:Laws of Lasting Love

Reading Selection B:Why We Love Who We Love

Lesson 14 Expanding Your Vocabulary(2)

Reading Selection A:Why Smaller Refrigerators Can Preserve the Human Race

Reading Selection B:Calculating Machine

Lesson 15 Aids to Vocabulary Development

Reading Selection A:True Height

Reading Selection B:Harry Potter

READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ

READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅱ