大学英语快速阅读教程

阅读常用技能

Unit One Sports

Reading 1 An Ugly and Violent Month for Soccer

Reading 2 Why China Fails at Football

Reading 3 Wanted: More Wimbledons

Unit Two Tales of Life

Reading 1 Life Lessons

Reading 2 Big Red

Reading 3 The Kindness of Strangers

Unit Three Business

Reading 1 Are Work Suits on the Way Out?

Reading 2 Steve Jobs and the Cultural Apple

Reading 3 East Meets West, But It Takes Some Practice

Unit Four Current Affairs

Reading 1 Asia's Lonely Hearts

Reading 2 Media and Moral Values

Reading 3 The SEAL Sensibility

Unit Five Pop Science

Reading I Form and Function in the Office

Reading 2 Virtual and Artificial, But 58,000 Want Course

Reading 3 Warning: Extreme Weather Ahead

Unit Six Education

Reading 1 Are Strict Chinese Mothers the Best?

Reading 2 New MIT Undergraduate Program

Reading 3 The Great Schools Revolution

Unit Seven Reflections on Life

Reading 1 The "Busy" Trap

Reading 2 No Friends? Then You're One of Life's Losers

Reading 3 Happiness: a Buyer's Guide

Unit Eight Focus on China

Reading 1 Cooperation Is Emphasized as Biden Opens Talks in China

Reading 2 China's Rise Isn't Our Demise

Reading 3 In China, Gauging Happiness Is All the Rage

Unit Nine East and West

Reading 1 Changing Conceptions of the American Dream

Reading 2 Buying Books Galore in America

Reading 3 The Schooling Story

Unit Ten Assorted Articles

Reading 1 Writing the Declaration of Independence

Reading 2 The Shadow of Leadership

Reading 3 Chattering Classes

Key

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