由欧阳俊林主编的《新编大学英语阅读教程（2级修订版）》广泛收集了现代英语，特别是近十年来英美社会的多式样语言文本。话题覆盖了当今政治、经济、文化、科技、教育、心理、人文、社会等诸多方面，帮助读者了解当今国际各领域的发展动态和问题，并从接触真实语料入手，学习和掌握语言形式、功能和用法，加深语言理解，从而全面提高学生英语语言的阅读水平，增强学生参加新体制下的大学英语四、六级考试的应试能力。

Unit 1 Mental Health

 Passage 1 Depression : Material and Psychological

 Passage 2 Don't Let Anger Get the Best of You

 Passage 3 New ,Ways to Protect Yourself From Crime

Unit 2 Human Relations

 Passage 1 Table Manners

 Passage 2 Harry Potter and the Sad Grown-ups

 Passage 3 Friendship

Unit 3 Life and Work

 Passage 1 Pink or Blue？ — Knowing Your Business Style

 Passage 2 Putting Your Job Interview into Rehearsal

 Passage 3 Your Dream Job: A Click Away

Unit 4 Entertainment

 Passage 1 Cartoon Stars: Who Create Them？

 Passage 2 Casino Chow

 Passage 3 Enjoying Hamburger and Digging up Its History

Unit 5 Information Technology

 Passage 1 Schools Face Staff Cuts

 Passage 2 Information Age

 Passage 3 For Some, the Blogging Never Stops

Unit 6 Economy and Society

 Passage 1 Can Anybody Here Play This Game？

 Passage 2 China Pays a Price for Cheaper Oil

 Passage 3 Price Hike Signals More

Unit 7 Public Health and Social Welfare

 Passage 1 Three Objections to the Moral Permissibility of Voluntary Euthanasia

 Passage 2 A Ticking Time Bomb

 Passage 3 Summertime, When People and Parasites Head for the Water

Unit 8 Technology

 Passage 1 Learning How to Make Rain

 Passage 2 Caught in the Web of the Internet

 Passage 3 The Two Paths of Virtual Reality

Unit 9 Personal Development

 Passage 1 How to Find Time to Read

 Passage 2 To Learn to Think in College, Write a Lot

 Passage 3 Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Unit 10 Urban Reflections

 Passage 1 Paris — The City of Light

 Passage 2 Music School Offers Free Lessong

 Passage 3 On the Meaning of Life

Unit 11 Understanding of Man and World

 Passage 1 What's So Good About Failure？

 Passage 2 Mistakes Winners Don't Make

 Passage 3 On Time

Unit 12 Glimpse of China

 Passage 1 Seeking to Revive China' s TV King

 Passage 2 The Three Gorges Project

 Passage 3 South-to-North Water Diversion Project

Unit 13 Legendary Stories

 Passage 1 King Arthur and His Round Table

 Passage 2 King Arthur and His Knights

 Passage 3 The Phoenix in Mythology

Unit 14 Education

 Passage 1 The Kindness of Strangers

 Passage 2 Challenge in Children's Literature

 Passage 3 Advice That Can Help You Succeed on Campus

Unit 15 Women's Problems

 Passage 1 Beauty Contestant Fights for Right of

 Self-improvemerit

 Passage 2 Do Women Lack Ambition？

 Passage 3 Study: Asian Suicide Rate Higher in Women

Unit 16 Biography

 Passage 1 Henry Ford, Inventor and Manufacturer

 Passage 2 Steven Spielberg, the Moviemaker

 Passage 3 The Death of Socrates

Unit 17 Personal Experiences

 Passage 1 Changing the Way You Look at Yourself

 Passage 2 Unforgettable Rocky

 Passage 3 A Double-Dyed Deceiver

Unit 18 Human History and Culture

 Passage 1 Some Theories of History

 Passage 2 The Origins of Language and Song

 Passage 3 Change: Some Firsts in Human History

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