《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。
- 前辅文
- 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)
- Sources of Some reading Materials
