本教材涉及题材广泛，文章风格、体裁多样。既包括报刊阅读，也包括各类散文、杂文和文学作品的阅读。阅读内容既有与社会生活方方面面紧密联系的读物，也包括与日常生活紧密联系的文章，还包括英语文学中著名作品的赏析。体裁既包括记叙文、说明文、散文及新闻报导、传记、评论等类型，也包括日常生活中常见的各类应用文体以及不同风格的文学作品体裁。突出的特点是“大”而“泛”。除此之外，还专门设计了各种形式的阅读技巧训练，力争在每一个单元让学生掌握至少一种行之有效的方法，以科学的理论和实践切实提高学生的英语阅读理解能力。我们在每一篇阅读材料之后都精心设计了各种类型的练习题和思考题，便于学生有效地理解和欣赏作品。

Unit 1

 Section A Every Person Is a Genius

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Unicorn in the Garden

Unit 2

 Section A Emergency Aid Flooding in 5 Killed，Scores Missing in Sichuan，Hubei Mudslides

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Butterfly

Unit 3

 Section A Meeting Challenges of a Huge Population

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Midnight Visitor

Unit 4

 Section A Firms Racing into Auto Production

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

Unit 5

 Section A Technology to Ease Traffic Danger

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Luncheon

Unit 6

 Section A The Moscow Hostage Crisis

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 SectionC ADay's Wait

Unit 7

 Section A Two Cultures Draw Closer

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C Post-mortem

Unit 8

 Section A One Killed and Three Are Wounded at New Orleans School

 Section B Reading for Full Understanding

 Section C Clearing in the Sky

Unit 9

 Section A The End of the Beginning

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C Star Light

Unit 10

 Section A Travel Options Open up for Chinese

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Perfect Picture

Unit 11

 Section A Deng's Top Spin Required to Sell the Beijing Olympics

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Open Window

Unit 12

 Section A Beating the Devil

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C Why I Want a Wife

Unit 13

 Section A “Sea Turtles” Losing the Job Race

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C  How to Grow Old

Unit 14

 Section A Cloning Misconceptions

 Section B Reading for Full Understanding

 Section C A Red，Red Rose

 How Do I Love Thee？

Unit 15

 Section A Around the Globe，Elation and Tension Over Capture

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C Young Woman at a Window My Papa's Waltz

Unit 16

 Section A Appetite for War Films Seems Less Hearty

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Gettysburg Address

Unit 17

 Section A World's Nonsmokers Take up Fight for Cleaner Air

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Funeral Oration of Diana

Unit 18

 Section A New York Dealers Are Prominent on Court Case's List of Guns Tied to Crime

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Mirror

Unit 19

 Section A Remarks on Schwarzenegger's Accent Heat up Race

 Section B Part One Basic Reading Skill

 Part Two Reading Selection

 Section C The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Unit 20

 Section A Human Rights Perspective on the Right to Education

 Section B Reading for Full Understanding

 Section C Oliver Twist

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