《21世纪大学新英语长篇阅读》是针对大学公共英语四六级考试中最新题型长篇阅读所编写的一套阅读教材，共分4册。每册有8个单元，每个单元包含3篇文章，练习设计包括最新四六级考试中规定的题型，辅之以其他类似的练习。在书后还配有答案以及自主学习光盘。
本书共分八个单元，每个单元由Text A、Text B和Text C三篇文章组成。Text A和Text B供课堂使用，Text C供学生课外阅读。
同时，为了提高学生的快速阅读能力和应对四六级机考，本系列教材还配有助学光盘，以方便教师和学生配套使用。
邬丽宏、王聿玮主编的《21世纪大学新英语长篇阅读(附光盘2十二五普通高等教育本科国家级规划教材)》是其中一本。

U nit 1 LOVE WORKS MIRACLES
Passage 1 Love Works a Miracle
Passage 2 Because I Care About You
Passage 3 An Old Man's Love Works Ordinary Miracles
Unit 2 HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE
Passage 1 Being Happy After Losing Money
Passage 2 How to Find Happiness Within Yourself When Life's
Got You Down
Passage 3 Ten Ways to Be Happier
Unit 3 THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED OUR LIFE
Passage 1 How the Internet Has Changed Our Everyday Life?
Passage 2 What the Net Has Not Changed
Passage 3 A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks
Unit 4 THE JOY OF READING
Passage 1 What Reading Really Means to Me
Passage 2 One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success
Passage 3 How Schools Are Destroying the Joy of Reading
Unit 5 GENERATION GAP
Passage 1 Retaining Quality Gen Ys
Passage 2 Generation Gap? "Online Gap" Widens Divide
Between Parents and Children
Passage 3 Car Generation Gap: Five Ways Our Autos Have
Changed
Unit 6 POSITIVE LIFE ATTITUDE
Passage 1 Think Positive -- Be a Success
Passage 2 My Journey Towards a Positive Life Attitude
Passage 3 Attitude Determines Altitude
Unit 7 RACISM AND SEXISM
Passage 1 A Cure for Racism in America: Seeing People
as Individuals
Passage 2 Sexism in America and How You Can Stop It
Passage 3 Not the Kind of Racism You Hear About Often
Unit 8 LIFE'S LESSON
Passage 1 It Doesn't Concern You?
Passage 2 Critical Lessons You Didn't Learn in School
Passage 3 The Seed
APPENDIX Keys and Answers