本套教材旨在通过系统、科学的阅读，较快地提高学生英语水平。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 Standing Room Only

Unit 2 Text A Life of a Chinese Scholar in Toronto

Unit 3 Text A Adolf Hitler

Unit 4 Text A Florence Nightingale

Unit 5 Text A Pharaoh's Dreams

Unit 6 Text A The Heroine of Lime Rock

Unit 7 Text A Educating England

Unit 8 Text A A15-Year Cover-Up in Britain

Unit 9 Text A The North of England

Unit 10 Text A Knownig London Inside Out

Unit 11 Text A Bronte Sisters and Their Brother

Unit 12 Text A In Developing Nations,Transporation

Unit 13 Text A World Food and Natural Resources Outlook in 2000

Unit 14 Text A Beavers

Unit 15 Text A The Panda Stands for WWF and for Thousands of Other Animals

Unti 16 Text A Dealing with Dyslexia

Unit 17 Text A Panels of Love

Unit 18 Text A Doll

Unit 19 Text A Samson and Delilah

Unit 20 Text A World Trade

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For most children,dolls seem to have always been important companions and playthings.