《英语泛读教程》（第三版）是普通髙等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材，供髙等学校英语专业一、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。本书为第二册，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、词汇练习和课堂讨论题；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。

本教材第三版更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 The Sbadowland of Dreams
  2 Reading Skills Using the Dictionary
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading Help Yourself Through the Hard Times
Unit 2
  1 Text Critical Thinking
  2 Reading Skills Dealing with Synonyms and Antonyms
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading Happy Accidents
Unit 3
  1 Text Recycling
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Global Warming
Unit 4
  1 Text The Lady on Pemberton Street
  2 Reading Skills Dealing with Homonyms
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading It's Our World, Too!
Unit 5
  1 Text A Mother's Place
  2 Reading Skills Skimming
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading To Grandmother's House We Go
Unit 6
  1 Text Fathers & Sons: the Bonding Process
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading My Father's Music
Unit 7
  1 Text Numbers and Omens
  2 Reading Skills Scanning
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading The Concept of Culture
Unit 8
  1 Text Getting Enough Sleep? Dream On
  2 Reading Skills Choosing Reading Speeds
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading Three Hours to Save Your Life
Unit 9
  1 Text Invented Words
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading A History of English
Unit 10
  1 Text Nuclear Energy
  2 Reading Skills Facts and Opinions
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading If Earth Were Powered from Space
Unit 11
  1 Text The Rocking-Horse Winner (I)
  2 Reading Skills Making Inferences
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading The Rocking-Horse Winner (II)
Unit 12
  1 Text Social Critic with Verve
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading Jacques Derrida
Unit 13
  1 Text Giving Hitler Hell (I)
  2 Reading Skills Underlining and Listing
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading Giving Hitler Hell (II)
Unit 14
  1 Text Overdue Interest
  2 Reading Skills Summarizing
  3 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  4 Home Reading G. A. Fitch's Diary
Unit 15
  1 Text The Old Man and the Sea (I)
  2 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
  3 Home Reading The Old Man and The Sea (II)
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