英语泛读教程(普通高等教育十五国家级规划教材)

《英语泛读教程》系受教育部委托编写的教材，供高等学校英语专业一、二年级使用，亦适用于同等程度的英语自学者。全套教材共4册。本书为第一册，共15个单元。单元一般分为四部分：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，重点介绍各种阅读技巧，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，提供和课文长度相当的语言材料，配有阅读理解题和思考题。
本教材第二版替换了旧版的部分内容，并根据难易程度调整了单元顺序，使阅读文章题材更加广泛，更具有时代感。

汇集国内一流专家，融合多年教学经验，倡导现代学习理念，提供教学解决方案。

Unit 1
　1 Text The Shadowland of Dreams
　2 Reading Skills Using the Dictionary
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Help Youself Through the Hard Times
Unit 2
　1 Text A Very Special Goose
　2 Reading Skills Dealing with Synonyms and Antonyms
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Happy Accidents
Unit 3
　1 Text Recycling
　2 Testing Fast Reading
　3 Home Reading Legislative Control Waste in Britain
Unit 4
　1 Text The Lady on Pemberton Street
　2 Reading Skills Dealing with Homonyms
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading It's Our World, Too!
Unit 5
　1 Text A Mother's Place
　2 Reading Skills Skimming
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading ToGrandmother's House We Go
Unit 6
　1 Text Fathers & Sons: the Bonding Process
　2 Testing Fast Reading
　3 Home Reading My Father's Music
Unit 7
　1 Text Numbers and Omens
　2 Reading Skills Scanning
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Red Envelopes: It's the Thought That Counts
Unit 8
　1 Text Getting Enough Sleep? Dream on
　2 Reading Skills Choosing Reading Speeds
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Three Hours to Save Your Life
Unit 9
　1 Text The Beauty and the Yak
　2 Testing Fast Reading
　3 Home Reading A New Future for Dorah
Unit 10
　1 Text Ancient Olympic Games
　2 Reading Skills Facts and Opinions
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Modern Olympic Games
Unit 11
　1 Text The Rocking-Horse Winner (I)
　2 Reading Skills Making Inferences
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading The Rocking-Horse Winner (II)
Unit 12
　1 Text Social Critic with Verve
　2 Testing Fast Reading
　3 Home Reading Janques Derrida
Unit 13
　1 Text Giving Hitler Hell (1)
　2 Reading Skills Underlining and Listing
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading Giving Hitler Hell (II)
Unit 14
　1 Text Overdue Interest
　2 Reading Skills Summarizing
　3 Testing Fast Reading
　4 Home Reading G.A. Fitch's Diary
Unit 15
　1 Text The Old Man and the Sea ( I )
　2 Testing Fast Reading
　3 Home Reading The Old Man and the Sea ( II )
Sources of Reading Materials

Previewing
Previewing means looking ahead and checking for information in advance. Before you read a book in detail, you can learn quite a bit about it by previewing. You can preview or examine specific parts of it first.
Here are steps you may follow when you begin to preview a textbook. Read the title of the book.
A title can tell you a great deal about a book. Before you read, think about what the title means.
Read the table of contents.
The table of contents appears at the beginning of a book. It is a list of the names of the chapters and the pages on which they begin. Sometimes you also find subheadings given under some chapters. If the book is divided into parts, that information also appears in the table of contents. After you study the names of the chapters and subheadings, you will know what each section of the book is about and how the topics of the sections relate to each other and to the whole book.
Read the preface.
The preface is a brief essay in which the author gives reasons for writing the book. It comes before the table of contents. From the preface you will learn for whom the book is written, the aims and the topics of the book and the best ways to use the book.
Read briefly the index, glossary, appendix, bibliography and other spe- cial supplements.
These usually appear at the back of a book. An index is an alphabetical list that tells the reader where particular topics, subjects and names of people, places or events, etc. are referred to in a book.
A glossary gives definitions to a list of difficult words or terms that appear in a book.
An appendix adds to a book extra information (charts, graphs, documents, facts, etc.) that is helpful to the understanding of the book.