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 SEI ECTION 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

READING SELECTION A：A Whole Nation and a People

Lesson 4　What Is Active Reading？

Unit Two　Active Reading

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 RememberingWhat 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

READING SELECTION A：Science and Technology

Lesson 8　Increasing Your Attention Span

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

KEYS TO READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ

KEYS TO READING COMPREHENSION TESTⅡ