束定芳、秦秀白編著的《長篇閱讀(4第2版新世
紀大學英語繫列教材)》為參考四級考試新題型而設
計編寫的長篇閱讀，包含匹配、多項選擇、填空等題
型，作為新世紀大學英語繫列教材的補充。選文體裁
題材多樣，題型豐富，尤其是包含了全國大學英語四
六級考試閱讀類題型，能有效地幫助學生提高閱讀速
度，從容應對國家級考試。

Unit 1 Arts
Passage A The Voice of God
Passage B Canadian Arts and Crafts
Passage C Chinese Painting
Unit 2 Sleep and Dreams
Passage A Sleep Less, Live Longer
Passage B What Do Animals Dream About?
Passage C Enough Sleep for Teens
Unit 3 Genetic Engineering
Passage A Rice Genome Sequence Means More Food
for the Future
Passage B Genetically Modified Foods: Toxins and
Reproductive Failures
Passage C Medicine and Ger~etic Research
Unit 4 Speeches
Passage A A Speech of Tribute
Passage B Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Passage C We Are What We Choose
Unit 5 Career
PassageA How to Find a Job You'll Love
Passage B Blogs Review: The YouthUnemployment
Crisis
Passage C The Path to Becoming a CEO
Unit 6 Literature
Passage A The Immigration Experience in Asian
American Literature
Passage B Alice Munro Wins Literature Nobel
Prize
Passage C Why Literature
Unit 7 The Internet and Computers
Passage A Vulnerability of Information in the Digital
Age
Passage B Illiteracy in the Information Age
Passage C The ***0 IT Disasters of All Time
Unit 8 Politics
Passage A Political Scandals in the U.S.A.
Passage B Commons War Debates of the Past
Passage C Why Are American Politics a Mess?
Key to the Exercises
Records of Your Reading Rate & Comprehension Rate