刘砚主编分这本《高中英语拓展读本》可以配合现行通用的教材，通过欣赏美文、品味经典、解析语言结构、扩充词汇量、加强听力训练、扩大信息输入等途径，满足同学们拓展知识面、提升英语素养的需求。读本包含12个单元，每个单元包括两个阅读篇章和一个经典选段欣赏。每个单元呈现一个主题，涉及理想信念、家庭情感、户外旅游、文化艺术、礼仪风俗、动物植物、学校教育、体育精神、伟人生平、现代科学等。所选文本内容与现行通用的教材不重复，而在信息输入量上有明显增加，以起到拓宽眼界，增加阅读量和词汇量之目的。在每个单元的开始，由两个思考题将同学们引入主题，以帮助大家做好阅读前的准备。为方便同学们的学习，在所有阅读篇章后附有单词表、词组表及注解。

Chapter One Live Your Dreams
Text A How to Realize Your Dream?
Text B Never Too Old to Live Your Dream
Text C "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
Chapter Two Human Feelings
Text A My Mother' s Desk
Text B The Brotherly Love(Excerpt)
Text C What I Have Lived For(Excerpt)
Chapter Three Positive Attitude
Text A Let Yourself Go!
Text B Become More Patient
Text C True Nobility
Chapter Four Great Outdoors
Text A Great Outdoors in the United States
Text B New Zealand--A Fairyland
Text C The Daffodils
Chapter Five Glimpse of Culture
Text A American Car Culture
Text B Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue !
Text C Thoughts From Gandhi(Excerpt)
Chapter Six Animals and Plants
Text A Do Fish Sleep?
Text B What Makes Fall So Colorful?
Text C The Period(Excerpt)
Chapter Seven World of Arts
Text A Van Gogh at the National Gallery
Text B How Jazz Began
Text C I Have As Much Soul As You(Excerpt)
Chapter Eight School Education
Text A The Greatest Teacher
Text B 21st Century Skills
Text C Book-friends(Excerpt)
Chapter Nine Sports and Spirits
Text A 2002 FIFA World Cup: Asia's First Finals
Text B On Marion Jones' Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs
Text C Sonnet 18
Chapter Ten Colorful Mediums
Text A Reading A Newspaper Is Cool
Text B Advertising Is Creeping Onto Cell Phones
Text C What Is Happiness(Excerpt)
Chapter Eleven Great People
Text A Biography of Martin Luther King
Text B My Experience with ALS(Excerpt)
Text C I Have A Dream(Excerpt)
Chapter Twelve Science and Technology
Text A Black Boxes
Text B Can We Travel Back in Time? (Excerpt)
Text C Of Studies(Excerpt)
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