《大学英语快速阅读教程(4)》由宋军主编，是根据教育部新颁布的《大学英语课程教学要求》编写而成，适用于大学二年级(下)非英语专业学生或具有同等英语水平的阅读爱好者。

本教程编写目的是，通过积极主动的快读训练，帮助学生扩大英语词汇量，提高快速浏览能力、准确猜词能力、独立分析能力和归纳总结能力。

Unit 1

 Passage 1 My Life on the Court

 Passage 2 Your Airline Wants to Get to Know You

 Passage 3 More than One Way to the Square

 Passage 4 Can Nurses Care Too Much?

Unit 2

 Passage 1 Obama

 Passage 2 Margaret Thatcher

 Passage 3 Bill Gates

 Passage 4 Diana, Princess of Wales

Unit 3

 Passage 1 The Internet—the Best Place to Learn English

 Passage 2 Quality Schools

 Passage 3 Successful Job Interviews

 Passage 4 Thinking Revolution

Unit 4

 Passage 1 Delivering Food in a College Community

 Passage 2 Tips to Maximizing Your College Budget

 Passage 3 Landing a Part-time Job

 Passage 4 Do You Need a Gap Year?

Unit 5

 Passage 1 April Fool's Day

 Passage 2 Hello, Everybody

 Passage 3 The End of an Era

 Passage 4 Bridal Showers

Unit 6

 Passage 1 Phelps's Mother Helps Her Son Find Gold-Medal Focus

 Passage 2 Jet Li's One Foundation

 Passage 3 Saving Private Ryan

 Passage 4 Civil Rights Movements

Unit 7

 Passage 1 Gender Issues in Health & Medicine

 Passage 2 Prenuptial Agreements

 Passage 3 Ethics Issue for Citizen Snappers

 Passage 4 Euthanasia

Unit 8

 Passage 1 Difficult Behavior in Adolescents

 Passage 2 Anxiety: How to Deal with it

 Passage 3 Saying No to the Net

 Passage 4 Up the Ladder, Step by Step

Unit 9

 Passage 1 Growing Cities and their Environment

 Passage 2 Fighting over Freshwater

 Passage 3 Climate Change in Action

 Passage 4 The Next Generation of Biofuels

Unit 10

 Passage 1 The Dream of Geophysicists

 Passage 2 The Unpredictable Computer

 Passage 3 Fight Stress and Keep the Weight Off

 Passage 4 The Future of Man--How Will Evolution Change Humans? ~

Key to Comprehension Exercises