本书是新编大学英语快速阅读教程的修订版，第4版，主要根据中西部地区大学一年级学生第二学期的公共英语教学实际有针对性编写而成，旨在提高大学生的英语快速阅读能力，全书在已有基础之上，根据大学英语教学大纲和中西部地区大学英语教学的实际，梯度设计，难易适中，材料新颖，内容丰富多彩，贴近实际，是提升大学英语阅读能力的上佳教程。

Unit 1
SectionA Passage 1 Healthy Eating
Passage 2 Obtaining Fresh Water from Icebergs
SectionB Passage 1 You Are What You Eat
Passage 2 Food in the 21st Century
Unit 2
SectionA Passage 1 A Cup of Coffee with Salt
Passage 2 Night Watch
SectionB Passage 1 The Beginning of Drama
Passage 2 A Funny Thing Happened to Me
Unit 3
SectionA Passage 1 Megatrends in Education
Passage 2 Standardized Tests
SectionB Passage 1 Different Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Passage 2 Is College Education Overvalued?
Unit 4
SectionA Passage 1 The Decline of Dating Apps
Passage 2 Clothing for Communication
Passage 1 Make Your Resume Shine
Passage 2 The Key to a Problem-Free Life
Unit 5
SectionA Passage 1 Tornadoes
Passage 2 Conservation
SectionB Passage 1 The Balance of Nature
Passage 2 Icebergs
Unit 6
SectionA Passage 1 Agriculture and the Development of Civilization
Passage 2 Telecommuting
Passage 1 Time and Human Society
Passage 2 New Methods of Payment
Unit 7
SectionA Passage 1 Statistics
Passage 2 Botany
SectionB Passage 1 Why Machine Translation Cannot Replace Human Translation
Passage 2 Cohesion-tension Theory
Unit 8
SectionA Passage 1 Essay on Positive and Negative Impacts of Cashless Economy
Passage 2 Fall Guy
Passage 1 Current Attitudes toward Physical Fitness
Passage 2 Exploding the Myths about the American Family
Unit 9
SectionA Passage 1 Getting the Most from Online Shopping
Passage 2 What Is Money and What Are Its Functions?
SectionB Passage 1 Serial Returners
Passage 2 Going Back. Wise Choice for Some
Unit 10
SectionA Passage 1 Multinationals Readjustment for Investment in China
Passage 2 Coal-fired Power Plants
SectionB Passage 1 Telecommunication via Satellite
Passage 2 The Salinity of Ocean Waters
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