楊躍、高霄、李玉萍主編的《大學英語快速閱讀
(3第4版)》是非英語專業快速閱讀教材，適用於大學
一、二年級非英語專業學生或者具有高中以上英語水
平的閱讀愛好者。
本教材旨在通過積極主動的閱讀訓練，幫助讀者
擴大英語詞彙量，提高快速閱讀的瀏覽能力、準確猜
詞能力、獨立分析能力和歸納總結能力。
本教材編寫嚴謹，具有高度的科學性、合理性和
實用性。選材注重信息性、趣味性和時代性。題材廣
泛、內容豐富，涉及科學教育、網絡技術、風俗人情
、飲食文化、假日旅遊、語言知識和社會熱點等各個
方面。
本教材練習題型設計與四六級新題型掛鉤，能在
很大程度上提高學生的備考能力。

Unit 1
Passage 1 Japanese and American Workers: Two Casts of Mind
Passage 2 The English Character
Passage 3 I' m Sorry. I Won' t Apologize
Passage 4 Chinese, English Speakers Vary at Math
Unit 2
Passage 1 The Western: The Legend and the Cardboard Hero
Passage 2 Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
Passage 3 Gold Is the Devil
Passage 4 Learning to Save Can Be Challenging
Unit 3
Passage 1 A Message to Garcia
Passage 2 Thin Is "In," Fat Is "Out"
Passage 3 Confessions of a Sports Morn
Passage 4 One Number Doesn' t Fit All
Unit 4
Passage 1 Happy People
Passage 2 Biological Parents and Adoptive Parents
Passage 3 Salty Coffee
Passage 4 Dad Beats up Mum. What Can a Child Do?
Unit 5
Passage 1 The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Mafia
Passage 2 The First American
Passage 3 The Rise of Asian Women
Passage 4 My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish
Unit 6
Passage 1 Take This Fish and Look at It
Passage 2 STM
Passage 3 Don't Fear Failure
Passage 4 If at First You Don't Succeed Enough
Unit 7
Passage 1 The Greenland Viking Mystery
Passage 2 The Biological Clock
Passage 3 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer?
Passage 4 Showing Emotion Is a No-Can-Do among Men
Unit 8
Passage 1 Whatever' s Happened to the Weather?
Passage 2 A Practical Mind
Passage 3 Energy Sense Makes Future Sense
Passage 4 Japan Tries to Cut Down on Plastic Bags
Key to Comprehension Exercises