朗文英语快速阅读进阶是一套旨在提高学生的阅读兴趣、扩展学生的词汇量、帮助学生掌握阅读技巧的非常系统的英语阅读丛书。该丛书的最大特点是选材新颖，融知识与趣味于一体。该丛书是按照初级、中级、中高级至高级四个阶段进行编排的。本书为中级篇。

本书共分8个单元。每单元由三四篇相同主题的阅读文章组成，有助于学生对同一主题从不同的视角进行探究，从而提高学生的分析能力和思辨能力。高效的词汇技能练习拓展学生的词汇量，从而使学生从容的应对新词汇。阅读技能练习指导学生掌握阅读策略，从而使学生成功的阅读不同风格和流派的文章！读和写有机的结合在一起全面提高语言应用技能！

Introduction

UNIT 1 CROSS－CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

 1.Kissing Your Way around the Worid

　2.International Gesture Dictionary

　3.The Bean Cake and the Broom

　Tying It All Together

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UNIT 2 PLAYING TO WIN

　1.Looking Back

　2.Following a Dream

　3.On Top of Her Game

　4.The Olympic Games

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UNIT 3 UNIVERSAL MYSTERlES

　1.The Mystery Statues of Easter Island

　2.The Nazca Lines

　3.Frozen in Time

　4.NASA Listens for Space Aliens

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UNIT 4 OUR FRAGILE PLANET

　1.One Family with the Earth

　2.Too Many Mouths to Feed?

　3.Our Endangered Wildlife

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UNIT 5 GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

　1.Levi's Gold

　2.Smells Sell!

　3.The Gender-Spender Gap

　4.Nothing but the Truth

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UNIT 6 THE POWER OF MUSlC

　1.Slow Music Soothes the Savage Appetite

　2.HOW Muzak Manipulates You

　3.Ray Charles

　4.Music's Surprising Power to Heal

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UNIT 7 ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS?

　1.Superstitions

　2.Knock on Wood

　3.What Will Tomorrow Bring?

　4.It's Jinxed!

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UNIT 8 OUR SHRINKING WORLD

　1.Jobs in a Shrinking World

　2.Franglais?NO Way!

　3.The Benefits of Multilingualism

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