本教程共15 个单元，单元分为4部分。第一部分为阅读课文及练习，练习包括判断课文中心思想、阅读理解、课堂讨论题和词汇练习；第二部分为阅读技巧，系统介绍阅读技巧，并配有相应的练习；第三部分为快速阅读练习，提供 3 篇短文，要求在规定的时间内完成；第四部分为课外阅读，提供与课文长度相当的语言材料，配有阅读理解题和思考题。 第四版在第三版的基础上，收入反映近年来社会进步和技术发展的文章，根据难易程度调整了单元顺序，对文章和练习进行了优化设计，融入中华优秀文化元素，通过二维码内嵌线上学习链接，更适合教和学的需求。

前辅文
UNIT 1
  PART ① Text The Shadowland of Dreams
  PART ② Reading Skills Using the Dictionary
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading Help Yourself Through the Hard Times
UNIT 2
  PART ① Text Critical Thinking
  PART ② Reading Skills Dealing with Synonyms and Antonyms
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading Happy Accidents
UNIT 3
  PART ① Text The Lady on Pemberton Street
  PART ② Fast Reading
  PART ③ Home Reading It’s Our World, Too!
UNIT 4
  PART ① Text A Mother’s Place
  PART ② Reading Skills Dealing with Homonyms
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading To Grandmother’s House We Go
UNIT 5
  PART ① Text Fathers & Sons: the Bonding Process
  PART ② Reading Skills Skimming
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading My Father’s Music
UNIT 6
  PART ① Text Forming a New Nation
  PART ② Fast Reading
  PART ③ Home Reading Winning the American Civil War
UNIT 7
  PART ① Text Numbers and Omens
  PART ② Reading Skills Scanning
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading The Concept of Culture
UNIT 8
  PART ① Text Getting Enough Sleep? Dream On
  PART ② Reading Skills Choosing Reading Speeds
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading Three Hours to Save Your Life
UNIT 9
  PART ① Text Invented Words
  PART ② Fast Reading
  PART ③ Home Reading A History of English
UNIT 10
  PART ① Text Invisible Scaffolding: Carl Friedrich Gauss
  PART ② Reading Skills Facts and Opinions
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading Master of the Way: Liu Hui
UNIT 11
  PART ① Text The Rocking-Horse Winner (I)
  PART ② Reading Skills Making Inferences
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading The Rocking-Horse Winner (II)
UNIT 12
  PART ① Text Social Critic with Verve
  PART ② Fast Reading
  PART ③ Home Reading Jacques Derrida
UNIT 13
  PART ① Text Cells
  PART ② Reading Skills Underlining and Listing
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading DNA
UNIT 14
  PART ① Text Overdue Interest
  PART ② Reading Skills Summarizing
  PART ③ Fast Reading
  PART ④ Home Reading G. A. Fitch’s Diary
UNIT 15
  PART ① Text The Old Man and the Sea (I)
  PART ② Fast Reading
  PART ③ Home Reading The Old Man and the Sea (II)
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