大学英语（预备级）快速阅读

Unit1 Growing Up

Passage A Addressing My Awkward Narcissistic 16，Year-Old self

Passage B Adrift

Passage C My Fourteenth's Summer

Passage D The Daffodil Principle

Unit2 Getting Along With People

Passage A Change of Heart

Passage B Communications in Navigation

Passage C People Come into Your Life for a Reason， a Season， or a Lifetime

Passage D How to Deal with Difficult People

Unit3 Education

Passage A Community College in the United States

Passage B World Maritime University

Passage C What Online Teens Consider "Research"

Passage D Universities Branch Out

Unit4 Values

Passage A A Precious Lesson

Passage B The Old Man and the Sea

Passage C Cheating?

Passage D A Chat with God

Unit5 Careers

Passage A Motherhood Is a Career to Respect

Passage B Bright Career Prospects at Sea

Passage O Don't Work for Money

Passage D Career Choices

Unit6 Health

Passage A 5 Ways to Slow Down Aging and Look Young All the Time

Passage B Ships and Public Health

Passage O Does Counting Sheep Really Help You Fall Asleep?

Passage D How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia

Unit7 Entertainment

Passage A "Football" Versus "Soccer"

Passage B How to Choose the Right Cruise

Passage O American Music and Culture

Passage D Hollywood

Unit8 Environment

Passage A Solutions to Environmental Pollution

Passage B 1969 Oil Spill

Passage O Recycling E-Waste

Passage D Fresh Air Can Kill

Key to the Exercises

《大学英语快速阅读》是《大学英语（预备级）》的重要组成部分。全书共设8个单元，各涉及一个主题，每单元4篇文章。其中每单元的B篇为海事英语题材，旨在使学生初步熟悉与航海有关的简单词汇和场景。A、C、D三篇文章难度逐篇增加。为了使文章做到难易适度、长短适宜，编者对部分原文进行了适当删减，对个别超纲词汇做了同义替换或中文解释，对涉及文化、地理、社会、专业等难以用简单的中文解释清楚的词汇在页末加入了脚注。基于《大学英语快速阅读（航海类专业适用预备级）》为快速阅读训练教材的性质，书内加入的注释力求简单明了。每篇文章后面均附有文章长度、建议用时和实际阅读用时记录。需要说明的是，建议用时的设置不仅考虑了文章长度，还兼顾了文章的实际难度。