本书针对《中国英语能力等级量表》中提高级别阅读能力的发展级别而编写。选材的篇幅、词汇量都大于前面三册。其主旨在于培养训练学生的阅读能力及阅读策略，使他们熟悉国内外阅读测试的题型及测试策略。学生通过参与一系列读写一体的语言学习活动，达到量表对于提高级别的语言能力描述。

Unit 1 Short Stories
Text A The Kiss
Text B The Open Window
Unit 2 Beliefs and Taboos
Text A The Worship of Trees
Text B Names Tabooed
Unit 3 Classics
Text A The Book of Songs : Poems That Helped
Shape Chinese Thought
Text B Geoffrey Chaucer
Unit 4 The Appeal of Stories
Text A The Greatest Tale Ever Told
Text B Our Fiction Addiction : Why Humans Need
Stories
Unit 5 Great People
Text A Brothers Grimm
Text B Why Is Picasso So Popular in Asia?
Unit 6 Great Speeches
Text A I Have a Dream
Text B We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Unit 7 Philosophy: Meaning and Reality
Text A Stimulus Meaning
Text B A Causal Theory of Reference: Proper
Names
Unit 8 Journalism
Text A A Preface to The Elements of Journalism
Text B Whig Press History as Political Mythology
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