《中级英语快速阅读（第5版）》特色：选材精心，内容丰富。书中收录的文章内容新颖，知识面宽，趣味性强，题材包罗万象：科普知识（如健康饮食及烹调，如何面对饮食失调；有关做梦的深入研究；纸的用途及其制作；能源利用及短缺，如何发展和利用可再生能源及新能源等）、科幻小品（从地球到月球；金星上的首批人）、最新科技动态（人类最有用的新型材料——塑料给人类生活带来方便的同时又造成严重的白色污染；杨利伟乘神舟五号飞船首次进入太空；中国成功将北斗导航试验通信卫星送入太空；全球四大卫星定位系统——美国GPS、欧洲“伽利略”、俄罗斯“格洛纳斯”和中国北斗卫星导航的格局逐渐显现等）、奇人奇事（被称为“树人”的印尼男子；英国维多利亚时代出现的严重畸形的“象人”）、生物趣闻（大象及其生活习性；海豚的绝项聪明；两岸友好使者大熊猫团团、圆圆赴台定居，熊猫生存繁衍的理想地区——四川卧龙的概况等）、世界奇迹（埃及金字塔；人类远古文化的宝库——周口店遗址等）、名人轶事（献身现代科技的发明家诺贝尔；两次获得诺贝尔奖的科学家居里夫人；世界著名作家、幽默大师马克·吐温的名著及生平），等等。还有英美国家的风土人情（黄皮肤、黑头发、与蒙古人种相当的爱斯基摩人；身着饰满羽毛和珠带的传统服饰、能歌善舞的印第安部落等）、体育爱好、医疗保健、邮政通信（手机给人们带来的便捷与危害；被称为全球最大搜索引擎公司的谷歌），以及内容丰富的各种杂文（如身体形象与自尊；离婚带来的社会问题；如何平稳渡过青春期；“地球末日”，等等）。
《中级英语快速阅读（第5版）》南开版“汪氏英语——快速阅读系列”是大学英语图书中独树一帜的响亮品牌，由知名英语教授汪士彬先生主持编写，是连续多年的教学与考试的优质辅导教材，能有效提高速读技能，解决占比重较大的阅读题型的速度障碍。全套书包括：初、中、离级快速阅读，科普版速读，中级速读辅导（四级）等7种共8册。
初级本：是为准备升入四级的学生提供的预备版、入门级，套红印刷，图文并茂，题材新颖，能反映当代英语的最新语言特征；中级本：是专为备考四级的学生编写的强化读本，也是速读系列的经典品牌，已经过5次修订，可有效增强快速阅读能力；辅导本：是与中级本配套的同步辅导，为教师备课和学生练习提供详尽的解读指南与参考答案；高级（上、下）：是面向通过四级后有兴趣进一步深造的学生，可全面拓展考生阅读视野，扩大词汇量，整体提升双语思维转换能力和篇章分析能力；科普速读系列：是由3个分册组成的特色阅读教材：初级本：为具备课外英语提高能力的高中生及高职高专备考实用英语A、B级的考生提供基础性的英语科普知识文章；中级本：为大学英语四级考生提供介绍当代科技发展新知识的文章，充实和完善一般阅读材料所缺的自然科学及各种新兴及交叉学科的信息；高级本：为参加大学英语六级统考或研究生入学考试、托福、雅思等考试的读者提供当代科技前沿重大发明与创新信息，以及与人们生活息息相关的最新科普知识。
汪士彬，南开大学教授，享受国务院政府特殊津贴，大学英语四、六级考试的知名辅导专家。现任海南大学三亚学院外语分院院长。长期致力于英语教学法与测试辅导研究，在数家出版社出版了40多部与教学配套教材，包括强化训练英语基本功的语法和词汇指南、快捷掌握阅读技巧的阶梯速读，以及系统梳理各类题型的实战模拟检测等。所编写的四、六级考试辅导用书广受欢迎，多次获全国及省市优秀畅销书奖。
技巧篇
写给教师——如何进行快速阅读教学
快速阅读的基本知识和技巧
How to Find Time to Read（如何找出时间阅读）
经验篇
坚持教学改革，抓好快速阅读，全面提高大学英语教学水平
实践篇
Unit One The old Man and the Sea
Timed Reading：Better Known as Mark Twain
Unit Two From Earth to Moon？
Timed Reading：The First Men on Venus
Unit Three Sometimes They Seem Almost Human
Timed Reading：Elephants
Unit Four Tuan tuan and Yuanyuan：The Next Generations Commitment to Peace
Timed Reading：Nature Reserve Spells Danger for Pandas
Unit Five Healthy Eating
Timed Reading：Food and Cooking
Unit Six Alfred Nobel Man of Contrasts
Timed Reading：Madame Curie and Radium
Unit Seven Chinas First Spaceman：Yang Liwei
Simed Reading：China Launches？hixd Orbiter for Indigenous Globa Satellite Navigation System
Unit Eight Eskimos in a Changing World
Timed Reading：A Brief History of the American Indian Reservation System
Unit Nine Paper and Its Uses
Timed Reading：The Paper Making Process
Unit Ten Plastics-Mans Most Useful Material
Timed Reading：Plastic-bag Ban Paying off
Unit Eleven Pyramids
Timed Reading：Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
Unit Twelve Dreams——What Do They Mean？
Timed Reading：Understanding Your Dreams
Unit Thirteen Energy Sense Makes Future Sense
Timed Reading：Waste Not.Want Not
Unit Fourteen Wave Snakess witch on to Harness Oceans Power
Timed Reading：Wave and Tidal Power：Huge Potential Market
Unit Fifteen Bark-like Skin Getting Better on“Tree Man
Timed Reading：The Elephant Mans Bones Reveal Mystery
Unit Sixteen Eating Disorder（I）
Timed Reading：Eating Disorder（II）
Unit Seventeen Yoga
Timed Reading：Getting Started with Yoga——How to Get Started with Yoga
Unit Eighteen Who Need a Flu Shot？
Timed Reading：Flu Prevention：5 Critical Lessons from History and What They Mean Today
Unit Nineteen How to Be Safe When You Are in the Sun
Timed Reading：How to Be Safe in Ice and Snow
Unit Twenty Body Image and Self-Esteem
Timed Reading：How Can I Improve My Self-esteem
Unit Twenty-one Depression
Timed Reading：Anxiety Disorders
Unit Twenty-two Stepparents（Ⅰ）
Timed Reading：Stepparents Ⅱ）
Unit Twenty-three A Parents Guide to Surviving the Teen Years（I）
Timed Reading：A Parents Guide to Surviving the Teen Years（II）
Unit Twenty-four Cell Phone Use May Fight Alzheimers，Mouse Study Says
Timed Reading：Cell Phone Secrets：Getting the Most out of Your Phone
Unit Twenty-five Google Tracks Our Web Habits Should We Care？
Timed Reading：Why Google Is the New Pirate Bay
Unit Twenty-six 2012——End Age
Timed Reading：What Will Exactly Happen in 20127-A Look at the
Mayan Prophecy
Answer Keys
Appendix（Useful Methods for Reading Given by Students）
我学英语的“诀窍
我是怎样学好英语的
阅读使我受益匪浅——谈我学习英语的体会
知之不如好之
浅谈阅读与写作——八六级四级英语统考作文题的写作体会
我怎样学英语
打好基础是学习英语的捷径
兴趣使然
兴趣最重要
我的英语学习心得
我们“思”“飞”的路
抓好基础，重视阅读，全面提高英语教学质量
Acknowledgements
With a Long March-II-F carrier rocket pushing Shenzhou-5 into the orbit some300 kilometers away from the Earth Wednesday morning， Yang Liwei， 38， turns outto be Chinas first astronaut in space.
At 9 a.m. Wednesday， Yang， aboard Shenzhou-5 white in color， took off fromthe Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the Gobi desert in Northwest Chinas GansuProvince.
He is expected to land somewhere on a central Inner Mongolia grassland at 7a.m. Thursday， after orbiting the earth 14 times. Yang will be traveling some500，000 kilometers in space in 21 hours， a travelers record in the worlds mostpopulous nation with a 5，000-year-old civilization.
When Shenzhou-5 entered orbit on schedule， the ground command centerreceived a message sent by Yang from outer space， saying that everything goessmoothly.His name， however， had remained unknown until 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Yang， from Liaoning Province and aged 38， is a member of the Astronaut Teamof PLA. Yang was born in June 1965 in Suizhong County of Northeast ChinasLiaoning Province and joined the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army （PLA） at 18.He graduated from the No. 8 Aviation College of the PLA Air Force in 1987 with abachelors degree and became a fighter pilot.
As a Chinese astronaut of the first generation， he was an excellent fighter pilotof PLA Air Force with the flight experience of 1，350 hours. In 1998， he was selectedas an astronaut. After five years hard training and study， he stood out excellent inall of his studies. Before the launch， the command center of the manned space flightmade the decision that Yang was to carry out the first manned flight.
At 5 a.m. sharp Wednesday， Yang was seen waving his hands to a group ofjournalists from inside a glass-shielded room at the Jiuquan launch center， with twoother astronauts sitting beside him as backups.
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