内容提要
本册是大学英语四级阅读课本，包括8个单元，2个阶段复习。每单元分两部分，
PARTA为精读，课文前有思考题，文后有第一、二次读后阅读理解题，其他习题包
括词汇与语法结构、完形填空、翻译、口语与写作等项；PARTB为泛读，用来扩大阅
读量和训练阅读流利程度。

CONTENTS
UNIT 1
PART A Why People Work
PART B 1 Job Hunting
1 Choosing a Career
B Four Minutes That Get You Hired
UNIT 2
PART A Clothes Make the Man
PART B 1 Fashion Merchandising
1 Do Clothes Make the Man?
1 Success Means Never Feeling Tired
UNIT 3
PART A Preface to "Service America!'
PART B 1 The Stock Exchange
1 The Risks of Investment
B The Cash-free Society
UNIT 4
PART A The Method of Scientific Investigation
PART B 1 Save the Jungle-Save the World
1 Old and New Buildings
B Making Artificial Diamonds
REVIEW 1
1 . Reading Comprehension
1 . Vocabulary and Structure
B Cloze
UNIT 5
PART A Understanding Americans
PART B 1 No Handshaking, Please!
1 How People Communicate
1 The Day Language Came Into My Life
UNIT 6
PART A Superstitious? Here's Why!
PART B 1 Asbestos in Schools
B Mind Power Breakthrough i
1 War of Wits
UNIT 7
PART A Clear Only If Known
PART B 1 Our Kindest City
1 U. S. Having Fewer Bad Air Days
B Chance or Probability
UNIT 8
PART A How to Avoid Foolish Opinions?
PARt B 1 Nature of Psychology
1 And Now, the Age of Light
1 The Man Who Saved London
REVIEW 2
1 . Reading Comprehension
1 . Vocabulary and Structure
III Cloze
VOCABULARY
PHRASES
APPENDIX