《普通高等教育"十一五"**级规划教材:现代大学英语(第2版)精读3》是北外杨立民老师主编的“现代大学英语”系列教材中《精读3》的修订版。相较**版，本版课文选篇及练习都做了大量改动，在内容、形式、难易度上比老版更合理。《普通高等教育"十一五"**级规划教材:现代大学英语(第2版)精读3》共16单元，其中第七单元和第十四单元为测试单元，便于教师考查学生的学习成效，系统检查知识积累情况。

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pronunciation Table
Unit 1
Text A Your College Years
Text B Predictable Crises of Early Adulthood
Unit 2
Text A How Reading Changed My Life
Text B How Books Helped Shape My Life
Unit 3
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
Unit 4
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Unit 5
Text A Silent Spring
Text B The ABCs of Global Warming
Unit 6
Text A How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem?
Text B They Dared Cocaine-and Lost
Unit 7
Inter-Lesson (Ⅰ)
Unit 8
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Unit 9
Text A Globalization's Dual Power
Text B The International Language of Gestures
Unit 10
Text A The End of the Civil War
Text B Mercy at Appomattox
Unit 11
Text A Why Historians Disagree
Text B The Third Man
Unit 12
Text A The Most Dangerous Game
Text B The Big Buffalo Bass
Unit 13
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All
Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Unit 14
Inter-Lesson (Ⅱ)
Unit 15
Text A A Drink in the Passage
Text B The Bench
Unit 16
Text A Twelve Angry Men
Text B Harry Hoffman
Glossary
Language Items
Word-formation Rules Summarized