《中級英語快速閱讀（第5版）》特色：選材精心，內(nèi)容豐富。書中收錄的文章內(nèi)容新穎，知識面寬，趣味性強，題材包羅萬象：科普知識（如健康飲食及烹調(diào)，如何面對飲食失調(diào)；有關(guān)做夢的深入研究；紙的用途及其制作；能源利用及短缺，如何發(fā)展和利用可再生能源及新能源等）、科幻小品（從地球到月球；金星上的首批人）、最新科技動態(tài)（人類最有用的新型材料——塑料給人類生活帶來方便的同時又造成嚴重的白色污染；楊利偉乘神舟五號飛船首次進入太空；中國成功將北斗導航試驗通信衛(wèi)星送入太空；全球四大衛(wèi)星定位系統(tǒng)——美國GPS、歐洲“伽利略”、俄羅斯“格洛納斯”和中國北斗衛(wèi)星導航的格局逐漸顯現(xiàn)等）、奇人奇事（被稱為“樹人”的印尼男子；英國維多利亞時代出現(xiàn)的嚴重畸形的“象人”）、生物趣聞（大象及其生活習性；海豚的絕項聰明；兩岸友好使者大熊貓團團、圓圓赴臺定居，熊貓生存繁衍的理想地區(qū)——四川臥龍的概況等）、世界奇跡（埃及金字塔；人類遠古文化的寶庫——周口店遺址等）、名人軼事（獻身現(xiàn)代科技的發(fā)明家諾貝爾；兩次獲得諾貝爾獎的科學家居里夫人；世界著名作家、幽默大師馬克·吐溫的名著及生平），等等。還有英美國家的風土人情（黃皮膚、黑頭發(fā)、與蒙古人種相當?shù)膼鬯够θ�；身著飾滿羽毛和珠帶的傳統(tǒng)服飾、能歌善舞的印第安部落等）、體育愛好、醫(yī)療保健、郵政通信（手機給人們帶來的便捷與危害；被稱為全球最大搜索引擎公司的谷歌），以及內(nèi)容豐富的各種雜文（如身體形象與自尊；離婚帶來的社會問題；如何平穩(wěn)渡過青春期；“地球末日”，等等）。
《中級英語快速閱讀（第5版）》南開版“汪氏英語——快速閱讀系列”是大學英語圖書中獨樹一幟的響亮品牌，由知名英語教授汪士彬先生主持編寫，是連續(xù)多年的教學與考試的優(yōu)質(zhì)輔導教材，能有效提高速讀技能，解決占比重較大的閱讀題型的速度障礙。全套書包括：初、中、離級快速閱讀，科普版速讀，中級速讀輔導（四級）等7種共8冊。
初級本：是為準備升入四級的學生提供的預備版、入門級，套紅印刷，圖文并茂，題材新穎，能反映當代英語的最新語言特征；中級本：是專為備考四級的學生編寫的強化讀本，也是速讀系列的經(jīng)典品牌，已經(jīng)過5次修訂，可有效增強快速閱讀能力；輔導本：是與中級本配套的同步輔導，為教師備課和學生練習提供詳盡的解讀指南與參考答案；高級（上、下）：是面向通過四級后有興趣進一步深造的學生，可全面拓展考生閱讀視野，擴大詞匯量，整體提升雙語思維轉(zhuǎn)換能力和篇章分析能力；科普速讀系列：是由3個分冊組成的特色閱讀教材：初級本：為具備課外英語提高能力的高中生及高職高專備考實用英語A、B級的考生提供基礎(chǔ)性的英語科普知識文章；中級本：為大學英語四級考生提供介紹當代科技發(fā)展新知識的文章，充實和完善一般閱讀材料所缺的自然科學及各種新興及交叉學科的信息；高級本：為參加大學英語六級統(tǒng)考或研究生入學考試、托福、雅思等考試的讀者提供當代科技前沿重大發(fā)明與創(chuàng)新信息，以及與人們生活息息相關(guān)的最新科普知識。
汪士彬，南開大學教授，享受國務(wù)院政府特殊津貼，大學英語四、六級考試的知名輔導專家�，F(xiàn)任海南大學三亞學院外語分院院長。長期致力于英語教學法與測試輔導研究，在數(shù)家出版社出版了40多部與教學配套教材，包括強化訓練英語基本功的語法和詞匯指南、快捷掌握閱讀技巧的階梯速讀，以及系統(tǒng)梳理各類題型的實戰(zhàn)模擬檢測等。所編寫的四、六級考試輔導用書廣受歡迎，多次獲全國及省市優(yōu)秀暢銷書獎。
技巧篇
寫給教師——如何進行快速閱讀教學
快速閱讀的基本知識和技巧
How to Find Time to Read（如何找出時間閱讀）
經(jīng)驗篇
堅持教學改革，抓好快速閱讀，全面提高大學英語教學水平
實踐篇
Unit One The old Man and the Sea
Timed Reading：Better Known as Mark Twain
Unit Two From Earth to Moon？
Timed Reading：The First Men on Venus
Unit Three Sometimes They Seem Almost Human
Timed Reading：Elephants
Unit Four Tuan tuan and Yuanyuan：The Next Generations Commitment to Peace
Timed Reading：Nature Reserve Spells Danger for Pandas
Unit Five Healthy Eating
Timed Reading：Food and Cooking
Unit Six Alfred Nobel Man of Contrasts
Timed Reading：Madame Curie and Radium
Unit Seven Chinas First Spaceman：Yang Liwei
Simed Reading：China Launches？hixd Orbiter for Indigenous Globa Satellite Navigation System
Unit Eight Eskimos in a Changing World
Timed Reading：A Brief History of the American Indian Reservation System
Unit Nine Paper and Its Uses
Timed Reading：The Paper Making Process
Unit Ten Plastics-Mans Most Useful Material
Timed Reading：Plastic-bag Ban Paying off
Unit Eleven Pyramids
Timed Reading：Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
Unit Twelve Dreams——What Do They Mean？
Timed Reading：Understanding Your Dreams
Unit Thirteen Energy Sense Makes Future Sense
Timed Reading：Waste Not.Want Not
Unit Fourteen Wave Snakess witch on to Harness Oceans Power
Timed Reading：Wave and Tidal Power：Huge Potential Market
Unit Fifteen Bark-like Skin Getting Better on“Tree Man
Timed Reading：The Elephant Mans Bones Reveal Mystery
Unit Sixteen Eating Disorder（I）
Timed Reading：Eating Disorder（II）
Unit Seventeen Yoga
Timed Reading：Getting Started with Yoga——How to Get Started with Yoga
Unit Eighteen Who Need a Flu Shot？
Timed Reading：Flu Prevention：5 Critical Lessons from History and What They Mean Today
Unit Nineteen How to Be Safe When You Are in the Sun
Timed Reading：How to Be Safe in Ice and Snow
Unit Twenty Body Image and Self-Esteem
Timed Reading：How Can I Improve My Self-esteem
Unit Twenty-one Depression
Timed Reading：Anxiety Disorders
Unit Twenty-two Stepparents（Ⅰ）
Timed Reading：Stepparents Ⅱ）
Unit Twenty-three A Parents Guide to Surviving the Teen Years（I）
Timed Reading：A Parents Guide to Surviving the Teen Years（II）
Unit Twenty-four Cell Phone Use May Fight Alzheimers，Mouse Study Says
Timed Reading：Cell Phone Secrets：Getting the Most out of Your Phone
Unit Twenty-five Google Tracks Our Web Habits Should We Care？
Timed Reading：Why Google Is the New Pirate Bay
Unit Twenty-six 2012——End Age
Timed Reading：What Will Exactly Happen in 20127-A Look at the
Mayan Prophecy
Answer Keys
Appendix（Useful Methods for Reading Given by Students）
我學英語的“訣竅
我是怎樣學好英語的
閱讀使我受益匪淺——談我學習英語的體會
知之不如好之
淺談閱讀與寫作——八六級四級英語統(tǒng)考作文題的寫作體會
我怎樣學英語
打好基礎(chǔ)是學習英語的捷徑
興趣使然
興趣最重要
我的英語學習心得
我們“思”“飛”的路
抓好基礎(chǔ)，重視閱讀，全面提高英語教學質(zhì)量
Acknowledgements
With a Long March-II-F carrier rocket pushing Shenzhou-5 into the orbit some300 kilometers away from the Earth Wednesday morning， Yang Liwei， 38， turns outto be Chinas first astronaut in space.
At 9 a.m. Wednesday， Yang， aboard Shenzhou-5 white in color， took off fromthe Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the Gobi desert in Northwest Chinas GansuProvince.
He is expected to land somewhere on a central Inner Mongolia grassland at 7a.m. Thursday， after orbiting the earth 14 times. Yang will be traveling some500，000 kilometers in space in 21 hours， a travelers record in the worlds mostpopulous nation with a 5，000-year-old civilization.
When Shenzhou-5 entered orbit on schedule， the ground command centerreceived a message sent by Yang from outer space， saying that everything goessmoothly.His name， however， had remained unknown until 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Yang， from Liaoning Province and aged 38， is a member of the Astronaut Teamof PLA. Yang was born in June 1965 in Suizhong County of Northeast ChinasLiaoning Province and joined the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army （PLA） at 18.He graduated from the No. 8 Aviation College of the PLA Air Force in 1987 with abachelors degree and became a fighter pilot.
As a Chinese astronaut of the first generation， he was an excellent fighter pilotof PLA Air Force with the flight experience of 1，350 hours. In 1998， he was selectedas an astronaut. After five years hard training and study， he stood out excellent inall of his studies. Before the launch， the command center of the manned space flightmade the decision that Yang was to carry out the first manned flight.
At 5 a.m. sharp Wednesday， Yang was seen waving his hands to a group ofjournalists from inside a glass-shielded room at the Jiuquan launch center， with twoother astronauts sitting beside him as backups.
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