Unit 1 Health
Reading Skills Looking for the Topic Sentence
Text 1 Do We Need Extra Vitamins
Text 2 Women and Tobacco
Text 3 Are These the Best Years of Your Life?
Unit 2 Environment
Reading Skills Scanning
Text 4 Our Disappearing Wildlife
Text 5 Pollution is a Dirty Word
Text 6 Keeping Food on the Table
Unit 3 Psychology
Reading Skills Reading for Central and Additional Information
Text 7 How to be Happy
Text 8 Never be Nervous Again
Text 9 Hey, I’m the Customer
Unit 4 Sports and Body Building
Reading Skills Reading Introductory Phrases and Clauses
Text 10 How to Camp out
Text 11 Body Image
Text 12 Baseball in America
Unit 5 Space
Reading Skills Reading for Implications
Text 13 Life on the Other Planets?
Text 14 Walking in Space
Text 15 Quake Research on Solid Ground
Unit 6 Birds and Animals
Reading Skills Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance
Text 16 Animal Education
Text 17 How Homing Pigeons Find Home
Text 18 An African Pet
Unit 7 Famous People
Reading Skills Using Context Clues to Determine the Meaning of Words
Text 19 Bill Clinton’s First Inaugural Address
Text 20 Kofi Annan’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly
Text 21 Me, Stephen William Hawking
Unit 8 Economics and Trades
Reading Skills Getting Main Ideas—Skimming and Scanning
Text 22 Bargains
Text 23 The Consumer
Text 24 More People and More Produces
Unit 9 Computers and Information Age
Reading Skills Facts or Opinions
Text 25 What are Computers?
Text 26 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life
Text 27 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life
Unit 10 Social Problems
Reading Skills Reading about Processes
Text 28 Juvenile Crime—Outlook for California
Text 29 Decent Jobs: Social Inclusion and Social Protection
Text 30 Decent Jobs: Social Inclusion and Social Protection
Unit 11 Education
Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions
Text 31 Choosing Not to Go to College
Text 32 The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Child
Text 33 Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills
Unit 12 Crime
Reading Skills Identifying and Understanding Signal Words
Text 34 Fighting the War against Computer Crime
Text 35 Juvenile Crime
Text 36 Juvenile Crime
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Appendix 1
Key to the Exercises
Appendix 2
英语阅读(二)自学考试大纲
Appendix 3
英语阅读(二)样卷
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