CONTENTS

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 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 Active Reading

Lesson 4 What Is Active Reading?

READING SELECTION A:A Whole Nation and a People

READING SELECTION B:The Ideal of Service

Lesson 5 Prereading

READING SELECTION A:The Functions and Effects of Music

READING SELECTION B:Whose Lead I Should Follow?

Lesson 6 Connections

READING SELECTION A:The Weird World of Tobacco

READING SELECTION B:Drunk Driver's Ed

Unit Three Techniques for Remembering What You Read

Lesson 7 Improving Your Concentration

READING SELECTION A:The Civil War:Repressible or Irrepressible?

READING SELECTION B:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast

Lesson 8 Increasing Your Attention Span

READING SELECTION A:Science and Technology

READING SELECTION B:It's a No-Brainer

Lesson 9 Remembering What You Read

READING SELECTION A:Death:It's What Ails You

READING SELECTION B:Success

Unit Four Techniques for Efficient Reading

Lesson 10 Skimming:Reading for Main Ideas

READING SELECTION A:American Values at the Crossroads

READING SELECTION B:Sports and American Values

Lesson 11 Scanning:Rapidly Locating Information

READING SELECTION A:A Case for Male Dishwashing

READING SELECTION B:My Wife Belongs in the House

Lesson 12 Techniques for Reading Faster

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