《21世纪大学新英语快速阅读》旨在帮助学生进行系统的、有针对性的快速阅读训练，掌握基本阅读技能，培养良好阅读习惯，提高阅读效率。选材方面，我们力求所选文章兼备时代性、信息性、趣味性以及可读性，语言难度适中，其体裁和题材体现多样性，话题涵盖中西文化、教育、生活、媒介、历史、科技、哲学、文学等。练习方面，我们主要是以现行大学英语四六级考试中快速阅读题型为主，又适当增加其他形式的题型：既有选择填空、对错判断和填空等基本题型，又有匹配、简短回答、摘要以及翻译等练习。本书由方卫等主编。

Unit 1 LOVE WORKS MIRACLES

 Passage 1 Love Works a Miracle

 Passage 2 Because I Care About You

 Passage 3 An Old Man's Love Works Ordinary Miracles

Unit 2 HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

 Passage 1 Being Happy After Losing Money

 Passage 2 How to Find Happiness Within Yourself When Life's Got You Down

 Passage 3 Ten Ways to Be Happier

Unit 3 THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED OUR LIFE

 Passage 1 How the Internet Has Changed Our Everyday Life7

 Passage 2 What the Net Has Not Changed

 Passage 3 A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks

Unit 4 THE JOY OF READING

 Passage 1 What Reading Really Means to Me

 Passage 2 One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success

 Passage 3 How Schools Are Destroying the Joy of Reading

Unit 5 GENERATION GAP

 Passage 1 Retaining Quality Gen Ys

 Passage 2 Generation Gap? "Online Gap" Widens Divide Between Parents and Children

 Passage 3 Car Generation Gap: Five Ways Our Autos Have Changed

Unit 6 POSITIVE LIFE ATTITUDE

 Passage 1 Think Positive -- Be a Success

 Passage 2 My Journey Towards a Positive Life Attitude

 Passage 3 Attitude Determines Altitude

Unit 7 RACISM AND SEXISM

 Passage 1 A Cure for Racism in America: Seeing People As Individuals

 Passage 2 Sexism in America and How You Can Stop It

 Passage 3 Not the Kind of Racism You Hear About Often

Unit 8 LIFIE'S LESSON

 Passage 1 It Doesn't Concern You7

 Passage 2 16 Critical Lessons You Didn't Learn in School

 Passage 3 The Seed

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 Keys and Answers