Steps & Skills系列包括阅读、写作、听力、口语等分册,旨在帮助学习者循序渐进地提高英语语言技能。本系列全部为原版引进,作者均为在语言教学与教材编写领域有丰富经验的专家。教材编排新颖,讲解生动,由浅入深,有助于学习者打下扎实的语言基础,同时增强英语思维能力。本系列既可用于课堂教学,也适合自学提高。注重基础,系统性强:介绍提高英语阅读能力的十大技巧,由基础阅读向**阅读过渡,配有大量练习与测试题。材料丰富,趣味性强:选篇难度适中,内容引人入胜,辅以形式多样的阅读活动,帮助学习者加深理解。锻炼思维,挑战性强:系统的阅读训练与启发性的思考活动有助于学习者提高推理、分析与判断能力。使用方便,实用性强:讲解**部分配有中文,便于学习者理解和掌握。各章内容安排合理,从讲解、举例、练习到测试,便于教学与评估。

Preface: To the Instructor
INTRODUCTION 绪论
1 How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker 如何更好地阅读和思考
2 Reading for Pleasure and Power 为乐趣和力量而阅读
3 Some Quick Study Tips **学习的捷径
PART Ⅰ TEN STEPS TO IMPROVING COLLEGE READING SKILLS 提高大学英语阅读技巧的十个步骤
1 Vocabulary in Context 语境中的词汇
Reading: Night Watch Roy Popkin
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2 Main Ideas 主题思想
Reading: Here's to Your Health Joan Dunayer
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3 Supporting Details 支持性细节
Reading: Child-Rearing Styles Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds
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4 Implied Main Ideas and the Central Point 隐含的主题思想和**论点
Reading: Rowing the Bus Paul Logan
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5 Relationships Ⅰ 语句或段落间的关系(一)
Reading: Students in Shock John Kellmayer
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6 Relationships Ⅱ 语句或段落间的关系(二)
Reading: l Became Her Target Roger Wilkins
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7 Fact and Opinion 事实和观点
Reading: New Respect for the Nap, a Pause That Refreshes Jane E. Brody
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8 Inferences 推理
Reading: Gender Inequality in Health Care and in the Workplace
James M. Henslin
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9 Purpose and Tone 目的和语气
Reading: The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas
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10 Argument 论证
Reading: In Praise of the F Word Mary Sherry
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PART Ⅱ TEN READING SELECTIONS 十篇精选阅读文章
1 The Yellow Ribbon Pete Hamill
2 Urban Legends Beth Johnson
3 Sha me Dick Gregory
4 The Bystander Effect DorothyBarkin
5 The Real Story of Flight 93 Karen Breslau, EleanorClift, and Evan Thomas
6 Coping with Nervousness Rudolph F. Verderber
7 Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say Yes Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, and David O. Sears
8 Lizzie Borden James Kirby Martin and others
9 Nonverbal Communication AnthonyF. Grasha
10 Preindustrial Cities Rodney Stark
PART Ⅲ FOR FURTHER STUDY 拓展学习
1 Combined-Skills Tests
2 Propaganda
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3 More About Argument: Errors in Reasoning
4 Writing Assignments
Acknowledgments
Index
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