郭杰克主编的《全新版大学英语快速阅读》在内容设计上每单元围绕一个反映当代生活实际的主题展开，同时兼顾语言知识、应用技能、学习策略和跨文化交际等方面内容的有机融合，指导学生全面深入地获取并掌握与各主题有关的语言文化知识及丰富的语料，并针对该现实主题充分进行语言综合应用能力、特别是听说能力的培养和训练。

Unit 1

  Text A-1 What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

  Text A-2 William H. Gates -- Chairman and Chief Software Architect,Microsoft Corporation

  Text B-1 Willis Haviland Carrier --the Father of Cool

  Text B-2 Thomas Adams and the Invention of Chewing Gum

Unit 2

  Text A-1 Metropolitan Life Insurance

  Text A-2 What American Consumers Like?

  Text B-1 How Postoptics Gets 58% of Its Online Sales through Google

        Advertising

  Text B-2 Two Kinds of American Business Heroes

Unit 3

  Text A-1 I Don't Know,

  Text A-2 The Old Bag Lady

  Text B-1 Some Shed Light

  Text B-2 Help a Li'l Bit

Unit 4

  Text A-1 How to Find Meaning in Your Work and Your Life

  Text A-2 Staying Happy

  Text B-1 Journalist Rewarding, but Very Polmcal

  Text B-2 A University Diploma

Unit 5

  Text A-1 Online Database Pinpoints Plagiarism

  Text A-2 The Brain Revolution and Ethics

  Text B-1 Survey: Many.Students Say Cheating's OK

  Text B-2 The Commercialization of Higher Education

Unit 6

  Text A-1 Doctors to Decide on Right to Die

  Text A-2 Terminally Ill Woman Fights for Right to Die

  Text B-1 The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz

  Text B-2 A Nurse Speaks Out!

Unit 7

  Text A-1 The Bounty of the Sea

  Text A-2 Man and Nature

  Text B-1 Trash Troubles

  Text B-2 Naturalist Has Whale of a Time in Alaska

Unit 8

  Text A-1 At Century's End, a Nostalgic Glance Back

  Text A-2 Flight. An !nvemion that Shrank the World

  Text B-1 The Digital Age

  Text B-2 The Creation of the Automotive World

Appendix

  Key to Comprehension Exercises