本书为《现代大学英语精读》教材,全套六册,供大学本科一至三年级学生及水平相当的学习者使用。 本书立足于国内,努力吸取我国已往英语教学的经验,使教材充分反映中国学生学习英语的特殊规律和要求,同时引进国外的新思想、新方法、新技术。在教学法问题上,采取兼容并蓄的方针,承认真理的多元性和相对性。谨慎处理英语教学中的各种关系,吸取历史教训,克服片面性。尽量兼顾语言和文化,听、说、读、写、译各个方面,避免走**。

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pronunciation Table
Unit 1
Text A Half a Day
Text B Making the Grade
Unit 2
Text A The Boy and the Bank Officer
Text B My Bank Account
Unit 3
Text A Message of the Land
Text B The Son from America
Unit 4
Text A Midnight Visitor
Text B Double Cross
Unit 5
Text A The Nightingale and the Rose
Text B The Nightingale
Unit 6
Text A The Green Banana
Text B Cutting Across Cultures
Unit 7
Inter-Lesson (I)
Unit 8
Text A The Kindness of Strangers
Text B Just a Little Scratch
Unit 9
Text A After Twenty Years
Text B Hearts and Hands
Unit 10
Text A Mandela's Garden
Text B The Road to Literacy
Unit 11
Text A Maheegun My Brother
Text B A Secret for Two
Unit 12
Text A Christmas Day in the Morning
Text B "Yes, Daddy, I Promise"
Unit 13
Text A The Greatest Invention
Text B Galileo, the Stargazer Who Defied the World
Unit 14
Inter-Lesson (II)
Unit 15
Text A Clearing in the Sky
Text B The Clearing
Unit 16
Text A The Monsters Are Due in Maple Street
Text B Who Shall Dwell?
Glossary List
Language Items
Grammar Terms