《英语阅读发展教程2/新世纪大学英语系列教材(第2版)》系《英语阅读提高教程》的延展,仍紧扣《大学英语教学指南》,旨在达到指南所规定的教学目标。本教程的难度和教学要求高。
教程力求体现以下特色:1.培养通过阅读获取信息的能为。这主要通过阅读课文和完成练习的方式来实现。练习围绕理解**大意、主要事实和有关细节来设计,形式与《英语阅读提高教程》相近,以体现延续性。
2.训练以正常速度阅读的能力。按每分钟70~90个词的阅读速度,主要选文中标出了每10分钟需要完成的阅读量,使学生做到心中有数,知道自己的阅读速度是否已经达标。
3.训练阅读过程中注意力的持久性。本教程选文的长度远远超过前几册,目的在于训练学生的阅读耐心,为将来工作时阅读参考文献作好准备。

Unit One
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: Animal Minds
Exercises
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: What Now for Our Feverish Planet?
Exercise
Text 2: Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning
Exercise
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading
Beware of the Dog
Exercises

Unit Two
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: The Adventure of the Dying Detective.
Exercises
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: Detective Story
Exercise
Text 2: The Guarded Secrets
Exercise
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading
The Message
Exercises

Unit Three
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: 2008 Presidential Debates
Exercises
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: The Surprising Causes of Those College Tuition Hikes
Exercise
Text 2: Hip-Hop Nation
Exercise
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading.
Talk in the Intimate Relationship." His and Hers
Exercises

Unit Four
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: Bleeding Jungle
Exercises ,
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: Return of the Time Lord
Exercise ,
Text 2: What Makes Us Moral
Exercise ,
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading
How Soon Can I Leave ?
Exercises

Unit Five
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: An Analysis of Quality of Work Life and Career-Related Variables
Exercises
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: Is This the Greenest City in the World?
Exercise
Text 2: To Catch an Identity Thief
Exercise
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading
Romantic Jealousy
Exercises

Unit Six
Part Ⅰ Reading for Information
Pre-reading Questions
Text: Gimpel the Fool
Exercises,
Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure
Text 1: The Exit Meeting
Exercise
Text 2: Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)
Exercise
Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading
From Brain Drain to Bright Future
Exercises
Appendix I Glossary
Appendix H Key to Test Your Reading