刘乃银主编的《英语泛读教程(2)(学生用书)(第3版)》阅读材料题材广泛，涉及英语国家社会、政治、经济、文化等方面；内容新颖，注意收入反映近年来社会进步和科学技术发展的文章；注重趣味性，文体多样。突破传统教材课文篇幅太短的局限，阅读量明显加大。课文长度从第一册的1 200词增加到第四册的2 400词。学生通过阅读实践，可扩大英语词汇量，提高阅读速度和理解能力。注重培养学生快速、准确、有效地获取信息的能力和把握文章中心思想的能力，训练学生见“树”又见“林”的能力。

《英语泛读教程(第三版)》是普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材，供高等学校英语专业一、二年级使用，也适用于同等程度的英语自学者。全套教材共4册。刘乃银主编的《英语泛读教程(2)(学生用书)(第3版)》为第二册，共15个单元。单元一般分为四部分：第一部分为阅读课文及练习，练习包括判断课文中心思想、阅读理解、词汇练习和课堂讨论题；第二部分为阅读技巧，重点介绍各种阅读技巧，并配有相应的练习；第三部分为快速阅读练习，提供3篇短文，要求在规定的时间内完成；第四部分为课外阅读，提供和课文长度相当的语言材料，配有阅读理解题和思考题。

《英语泛读教程(2)(学生用书)(第3版)》第三版更换了第二版的部分内容，并根据难易程度调整了单元顺序，使阅读文章题材更加广泛，更具有时代感。

Unit 1

 Text The Sbadowland of Dreams

 Reading Skills Using the Dictionary

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Help Yourself Tbrougb the Hard Times

Unit 2

 Text Critical Thinking

 Reading Skills Dealing with Synonyms and Antonyms

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Happy Accidents

Unit 3

 Text Recycling

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Global Warming

Unit 4

 Text The Lady on Pemberton Street

 Reading Skills Dealing with Homonyms

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading It's Our World, Too!

Unit 5

 Text A Mother's Place

 Reading Skills Skimming

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading To Grandmother's House We Go

Unit 6

 Text Fathers & Sons: the Bonding Process

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading My Father's Music

Unit 7

 Text Numbers and Omens

 Reading Skills Scanning

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading The Concept of Culture

Unit 8

 Text Getting Enough Sleep? Dream On

 Reading Skills Choosing Reading Speeds

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Three Hours to Save Your Life

Unit 9

 Text Invented Words

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading A History of English

Unit 10

 Text Nuclear Energy

 Reading Skills Facts and Opinions 166

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading If Earth Were Powered from Space

Unit 11

 Text The Rocking-Horse Winner (I)

 Reading Skills Making Inferences 185

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading The Rocking-Horse Winner (II)

Unit 12

 Text Social Critic with Verve

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Jacques Derrida

Unit 13

 Text Giving Hitler Hell (I)

 Reading Skills Underlining and Listing

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading Giving Hitler Hell (II)

Unit 14

 Text Overdue Interest

 Reading Skills Summarizing

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading G. A. Fitcb's Diary

Unit 15

 Text The Old Man and the Sea (I)

 Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed

 Home Reading The Old Man and The Sea (II)

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