本套教材旨在通过系统、科学的阅读，较快地提高学生的英语水平。课文全部选自近年来国内外出版的书籍、报刊，题材广泛，内容新颖，注重实践，还提供了数十套中级阅读测试题，并附有答案。适用于大学英语专业一、二年级的学生，参加自学考试、培训的学生以及欲在短期内提高阅读及应试能力，具有中等以上水平的广大英语学习者。

Unit 1 Text A Galileo

Text B Lessons fuom Onerseas

Text C

Unit 2 Text A The Story of Money

Text B Who Smokes?

Text C

Unit 3 Text A Etiquette Today

Text B When to Arrive and Leave

Text C

Unit 4 Text A Africa:Way of Life

Text B A Million Lawyers

Text C

Unit 5 Text A Life in the Sahara Desert

Text B Cowboys

Text C

Reading Skill I Get Rid of Bad Reading Habits

Unit 6 Text A Beat Cops Girls in Green

Text B Ballet Dancers

Text C

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Elizabeth was a very pretty girl,and her parents were rich.Quite a lot of the young men in the town wanted to marry her,but she was not satisfied with any of them.