本书从语篇结构、作者观点、写作风格、思维方法等方面多角度、全方位地提高学生的阅读技巧和思辨能力,同时符合科学的认知规律。为了对阅读效果进行综合全面的检验,每道习题后面都有相应的分值计算方法,每单元后还附有单元评测表,学生可以进行自测自评。
它既授人以鱼,又授人以渔,不仅从知识的角度,更是从思维技能的角度出发,从根本上改善中国学习者的阅读方法和技巧,综合提高阅读能力。因此本套教材可以是快读,也可以是泛读,更可以是精读,关键在于读者及各级各类学校的选择。
Unit 1
Lesson 1 What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
Lesson 2 The Truth About the Tasaday
Lesson 3 Lost for 16 Years
Lesson 4 The Weird World of Howard Hughes
Lesson 5 The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Lesson 6 "I Buried Paul"
Unit Summarizing 1
Unit 2
Lesson 7 The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Lesson 8 The Strange Case of Mr. Wright
Lesson 9 Ghost Ship in the Sky
Lesson 10 Lost in the Arctic
Lesson 11 The Curse of the Hope Diamond
Unit Summarizing 2
Unit 3
Lesson 12 The Last Flight of the Star Tiger
Lesson 13 The Tragic Donner Party
Lesson 14 Courage in the Face of Evil
Lesson 15 Death on Mount Everest
Lesson 16 Did Anastasia Survive?
Unit Summarizing 3
Appendix
Answer Key