大学英语快速阅读

Unit 1 College Life

Passage A LOL! Get Five Strategies to Lead a Great College Life!

Passage B Military-Style Life of Undergraduates at New York Maritime College

Passage C Dreamers: Hunks of Junk

Passage D Why Should I Have Stress in College Life?

Unit 2 Language Learning

Passage A Why Learn Languages?

Passage B A Solution to Bridge Seafarers' Language Gap?

Passage C Gender-speak--a New Perspective

Passage D More Americans Leam Their ABCs in Chinese

Unit 3 Famous Figures

Passage A Queen Elizabeth II's Address to the United Nations General Assembly

Passage B Voyages of Discovery-Captain Cook

Passage C Interview with Emma Thompson

Passage D Shaun Weng, First Chinese Sailing Around the World Alone

Unit 4 Climate and Weather

Passage A Tornadoes on the Soccer Field!

Passage B Time and Tide Wait for No Man

Passage C A Close Encounter with Lightning

Passage D On the Front Lines of Climate Change

Unit 5 Entertainment

Passage A Bungee Jumping: Stretching the Limits of Fear

Passage B She Guided One of the Fastest Sailing Ships

Passage C Cliffhanger; Rock Climbing as Sport and Art

Passage D Finnegan, Again

Unit 6 Food and Health

Passage A Heart Health Facts for Women

Passage B How to Eat for Good Health on a Cruise Ship?

Passage C No More Exercise

Passage D Men Can Live as Long as Women

Unit 7 Festival and Culture

Passage A Chocolate Has a History as Rich as Its Taste

Passage B Mariners' Superstition and Belief

Passage C When Is a Hat Not a Hat?

Passage D Bless the Children

Unit 8 Virtual World

Passage A Rethinking PC

Passage B Phone and Internet Tips While at Sea

Passage C The Information Age: the Internet

Passage D The Top Twelve E-Mail Mistakes That Can Sabo-tage Your Career

Key to the Exercises

《大学英语快速阅读（1）（航海类专业适用）》共8个单元，每个单元4篇文章。各单元文章都紧扣《大学英语读写教程》中相应单元的主题，其目的是使学生对同一主题从词汇量到信息量都有更多的信息“输入”，其中每单元的B篇为海事英语题材，以求强化学生对航海类专业英语的阅读能力。教材中文章大多选自近年来出版的原版英文图书、报刊及英语国家的一些主要媒体的网站。为了使文章做到难易适度、长短适宜，编者对其中一些原文进行了适当的删减，对个别超纲词汇作了同义更换或给出了中文注释。