《泛读教程》是“新空间大学英语”系列教材的主干教材之一。全套教材共四册，可供四个学期使用。

本教材具有较强的针对性，无论是选材还是练习的编排都充分考虑到教学要求和学生的特点。所选材料难度适中，短小精干，便于老师课堂操作和学生课上课下阅读；同时强调趣味性，所选文章贴近学生生活，反映学生感兴趣的话题，能够比较充分地调动学生阅读的热情：同时也注意将不同的文体和题材包括其中，使学生对不同类型的文体和话题有所接触，为他们在今后的就业中很快适应实际工作打好基础。

课后练习形式上注重多样性和趣味性。每个单元除了配有检查学生阅读理解的传统练习，还配有形式新颖的词汇巩固和扩展练习、文化知识练习、任务型练习等。词汇巩固和扩展练习将课文中重点词汇提出来操练。并从课文的题材出发，对相关词汇进行联想扩充，比较好地处理了阅读和词汇量积累之间的关系；任务型练习则有助于开发学生的创新思维能力，加深对所学语言知识的记忆，提高课下自主阅读的积极性。在练习中还融入了很多文化知识，有助于在提高学生理解能力的同时，扩大学生的知识面，增强对英语国家文化的了解。

本书为《泛读教程》的第四册。

Unit 1 Transport

Text A Proposed Future Transport

Text B How We Traveled

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading Is it Safe to Travel Nowadays?

Unit 2 Detective Stories

Text A The Dead Detective

Text B Key to Success

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading The Most Famous Detectives in Literature

Unit 3 Exploration

Text A King of the Peaks

Text B Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay [Hangchow]

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading History of Exploration

Unit 4 Crisis

Text A Three Hours of Fear and Hope （I）

Text B Three Hours of Fear and Hope （II）

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading What Courage Looks Like?

Unit 5 Honesty

Text A Excuses, Excuses

Text B Let's Put the Heat on Campus Cheats

Supplementary Reading Advice to Youth

Leaming Activities

Unit 6 Enjoy Listening!

Text A How to Listen to Movies

Text B How to Listen to TV News

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading How to Listen to Songs

Unit 7 Tests

Text A A Testing Time

Text B IELTS and TOEFL

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading

Unit 8 Poets and Poems

Text A Walt Whitman

Text B Robert Frost

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading Emily Dickinson

Unit 9 Famous Speeches

Text A John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address

Text B Obituary to Princess Diana Speech

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading 9/11 Speech

Unit 10 Technology:A Blessing or a Curse

text A Tech-ed off

text B Cell Phones Indulge Arrogance of Youths

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Technological Advances Take up More of Our Time

Unit 11 Daddy-Long-Legs

Text A The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith I

Text B The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith II

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Blue Wednesday

Unit 12 Single Parent Families

Text A Good Intentions

Text B Single Parent Families:Serve Them Through Scoutreach Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading A Day in the Life of a Single Parent

Key to Some of the Exercises