Unit 1　 Health 　　　　　　　

Reading Skills　 Looking for the Topic Sentence 　　　　

Text 1 Do We Need Extra Vitamins?

Text 2 Women and Tobacco

Text 3 Are These the Best Years of Your Life?

Unit 2 Environment

Reading Skills Scanning

Text 4 Our Disappearing Wildlife

Text 5 Pollution is a Dirty Word

Text 6 Keeping Food on the Table

Unit 3 Psychology

Reading Skills Reading for Central and Additional Information

Text 7 How to be Happy

Text 8 Never be Nervous Again

Text 9 Hey,I'm the Customer

Reading Skills Reading Introductory Phrases and Clauses

Unit 4 Sports and Body Building

Text 10 How to Camp out

Text 11 Body Image

Text 12 Baseball in America

Unit 5 Space

Reading Skills Reading for Implications

Text 13 Life on the Other Planets?

Text 14 Walking in Space

Text 15 Quake Research on Solid Ground

Unit 6 Birds and Animals

Reading Skills Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance

Text 16 Animal Education

Text 17 How Homing Pigeons Find Home

Text 18 An African Pet

Unit 7 Famous People

Reading Skills Using Context Clues to Determine the Meaning of Words

Text 19 Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address

Text 20 Kofi Annan's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly

Text 21 Me,Stephen William Hawking

Unit 8 Economics and Trades

Reading Skills Getting Main Ideas—Skimming and Scanning

Text 22 Bargains

Text 23 The Consumer

Text 24 More People and More Produces

Unit 9 Computers and Information Age

Reading Skills Facts or Opinions

Text 25 What are Computers?

Text 26 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life

Text 27 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life

Unit 10 Social Problems

Reading Skills Reading about Processes

Text 28 Juvenile Crime—Outlook for California

Text 29 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection

Text 30 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection

Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions

Unit 11 Education

Text 31 Choosing Not to Go to College

Text 32 The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Child

Text 33 Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills

Unit 12 Crime

Reading Skills Identifying and Understanding Signal Words

Text 34 Fighting the War against Computer Crime

Text 35 Juvenile Crime

Text 36 Juvenile Crime

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Appendix 1

Key to the Exercises

Appendix 2

英语阅读（二）自学考试大纲

Appendix 3

英语阅读（二）样卷

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