《**英语阅读教程(下)》分上中下三册，共精选短文96篇，内容涉及中西文化、语言、教育、生活、媒介、历史、妇女问题、科技、人性、哲学、文学等，每册按主题分为16个单元-每个单元配有与学习内容相关的阅读理解、词义辨析、句子释义以及修辞等练习和思考题。该教程为英语专业高年级学生设计，也可用作大学英语研究生和本科生选修课教材或散文爱好者的读物。

Unit One
Text A Universities and Their Function
Text B The College bs for Everyone Cult
Unit Two
Text A Mother Tongue
Text B Doctor Talk
Unit Three
Text A The Problem of Happiness
Text B My Father's Life
Unit Four
Text A Remembering the Farm
Text B My Wood
Unit Five
Text A Speaking of Pictures
Text B Television: The Plug-in Drug
Unit Six
Text A How Does a Poem Mean?
Text B Reading: From Many Rules to One Habit
Unit Seven
Text A Women
Text B Women's Business
Unit Eight
Text A Welcome to Cyberia
Text B The Relationship Between Business and Higher Education:
A Perspective on the 21st Century
Unit Nine
Text A Walden
Text B What I Lived for
Unit Ten
Text A A Message to Intellectuals
Text B The Way to Wealth
Unit Eleven
Text A Thinking as a Hobby
Text B On My Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Unit Twelve
Text A Does Human Nature Change?
Text B A Reasonable Life in a Mad World
Unit Thirteen
Text A The Business of a Biographer
Text B An American Storyteller: Ernest Hemingway
Unit Fourteen
Text A Man Against Darkness
Text B The State o[ Funk
Unit Fifteen
Text A Fashions in Love
Text B The Fine Art of Marital Fighting
Unit Sixteen
Text A English Manners
Text B The Spirit of the Chinese People
Reference Key to the Exercises