本书共收录近年托福考场上被高频考查到的阅读篇目50篇。书中的核心词汇、学术词汇、长难句分析用于为将来篇章阅读做基本的词汇储备和语言能力训练。文章概览及结构图、全文翻译及题目解析则从宏观到微观帮助考生既能理解全文框架结构，又能细致入微地学习每句话、每道题。同时，书中对于每个题目进行了细致的讲解而非只是给出参考答案，给冲刺阶段有大量做题需求的考生提供了有反馈的“刷题”工具，帮助考生知其然也能知其所以然，从根本上提升做题能力。

Unit 1 天文学和气象学
Passage 01 Determining the Ages of the Planets and the Universe
Passage 02 Alaska and Bark Beetles
Passage 03 Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
Passage 04 The Climate of Japan
Unit 2 地质学
Passage 05 Saving Soil and Cropland
Passage 06 Early Theories of Continental Drift
Passage 07 How Soil is Formed
Passage 08 Earthquake Prediction
Unit 3 艺术
Passage 09 Cave and Rock Art
Passage 10 Historical Trends in European Urban Design
Passage 11 Mexican Mural Art
Passage 12 Olmec Art
Passage 13 Portraits as Art
Passage 14 The Early History of Motion Pictures
Unit 4 海洋生物
Passage 15 Bioluminescence in Marine Creatures
Passage 16 Coral Reef Communities
Passage 17 Sea Turtle Hatchling Strategies for Navigation
Passage 18 Temperature Regulation in Marine Organisms
Passage 19 The Brain Size of Bottlenose Dolphins
Unit 5 动物学和植物学
Passage 20 Bird Colonies
Passage 21 Bison and Humans
Passage 22 Dinosaurs and Parental Care
Passage 23 Human Impacts on Biogeography
Passage 24 The Cambrian Explosion
Passage 25 The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
Passage 26 The First Eyes
Passage 27 The Geographical Distribution of Gilding Animals
Passage 28 Vocalization in Frogs
Passage 29 Preventing Overgrowth among Tree Branches
Unit 6 人类学、商业和心理学
Passage 30 Art and Culture of Pacific Northwest Communities
Passage 31 Domestication
Passage 32 Hunting and the Setting of Inner Eurasia
Passage 33 Origins of the Megaliths
Passage 34 Consolidated Industry in the United States
Passage 35 Costs of Quitting a Job
Passage 36 Controversy about Causing Emotion
Passage 37 Motor Development in Children
Unit 7 古代文明
Passage 38 Documenting the Incas
Passage 39 Mesopotamian and Egyptian Settlement Patterns
Passage 40 The Collapse of the Mayas
Passage 41 The Emergence of Civilization
Passage 42 The Multiplier Effect
Passage 43 The Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century
Unit 8 历史
Passage 44 Newspaper in Western Europe
Passage 45 Effects of the Commercial Revolution
Passage 46 Europe Context of the Scientific Revolution
Passage 47 Farming New England in Colonial Times
Passage 48 Population Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Passage 49 The British Economy under the Roman Empire
Passage 50 Written Records