《零起点托福渐进教程》坚持以“方法引入为主，范例展示为辅”的编写理念。各内容点的讲解做到层层剖析和逻辑推导，摈弃直接以答案和成品范义呈现内容的方法。

《零起点托福渐进教程》由听、说、读、写四册构成。各册教材既有各技能的中心内容点和不同训练策略，独立成一系统，又相互补充和交叉，方便单独或成套配合使用。

本书为该系列之一的《阅读理解》分册。

Part I Basic Skills Building

Unit 1 Skimming and Scanning

Unit 2 Understanding Vocabulary in Context

Unit 3 Understanding Facts and Details

Unit 4 Locating Referents

Unit 5 Recognizing Coherence

Unit 6 Summarizing Main Ideas

Unit 7 Making Inferences

Unit 8 Determining Purpose

Unit 9 Comprehensive Test 1

Unit 10 Comprehensive Test 2

Unit 11 Comprehensive Test 3

Unit 12 Comprehensive Test 4

Unit 13 Comprehensive Test 5

Part II TOEFL Skills Developing

Unit 14 Paraphrase：Identifying Topics

Unit 1 5 Square Sentence Insertion：Recognizing Coherence

Unit 16 Inference：Reasoning on Given Evidence

Unit 17 Details and Facts：Finding Factual Information

Unit 18 Words and Phrases：Meaning in the Context

Unit 1 9 Reference：Recognizing Substitution Relations

Unit 20 Schematic Table：Completing SummariesI

Unit 2 1 Prose Summary Items：Creating Tables and Charts

Unit 22 Comprehensive TOEFL Test 6

Unit 23 Comprehensive TOEFL Test 7

Unit 24 Comprehensive TOEFL Test 8

Unit 25 Comprehensive TOEFL Test 9

Unit 26 Comprehensive TOEFL Test 10

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