《英语泛读教程》（第三版）是普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材，供高等学校英语专业一、二年级使用，也适用于同等程度的英语自学者。全套教材共4 册。本书为第一册，共15 个单元。单元一般分为四部分：第一部分为阅读课文及练习，练习包括判断课文中心思想、阅读理解、课堂讨论题和词汇练习；第二部分为阅读技巧，重点介绍各种阅读技巧，并配有相应的练习；第三部分为快速阅读练习，提供3 篇短文，要求在规定的时间内完成；第四部分为课外阅读，提供和课文长度相当的语言材料，配有阅读理解题和思考题。

本教材第三版替换了第二版的部分内容，并根据难易程度调整了单元顺序，使阅读文章题材更加广泛、更具有时代感。

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Unit 1
  1 Text Genius and the Craftsman
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Reading: Basic Principles
Unit 2
  1 Text Personal versus Social Identity
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Social Comparison: Knowing the Self
Unit 3
  1 Text Food Fight
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Wine in American Life
Unit 4
  1 Text The 20th Century Time
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Albert Einstein
Unit 5
  1 Text Toy Story
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Watch and Learn
Unit 6
  1 Text How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity (I)
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity(II)
Unit 7
  1 Text Postmortem with Strings
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Pay Attention, Rover
Unit 8
  1 Text The Life of Samuel Johnson
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Unit 9
  1 Text The Archaeologists Who Wouldn’t Dig
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading History
Unit 10
  1 Text Is Weather Getting Worse?
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Basic Instinct
Unit 11
  1 Text Personal Names
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Surviving Twin Challenges — at Home and Work
Unit 12
  1 Text Why People Work
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Working
Unit 13
  1 Text Happiness (I)
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Happiness (II)
Unit 14
  1 Text The American Scholar (I)
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading The American Scholar (II)
Unit 15
  1 Text The Chrysanthemums
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading A Little Cloud
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