《全新版大学英语<第二版>阅读教程》系列教材秉承首版教材的优良传统，继承兼收并蓄的折中主义教学理念，参照《大学英语课程教学要求》修订，更加贴近教学实际，更有效提升学习者语言综合应用能力，更好满足新时期人才培养需求。本书每单元有3篇阅读文章，共有24篇阅读文章。每单元包括以下5个部分。本书由邱东林主编。

Unit One

 1. What Is a Great Book

 2. A Love Affair with Books

 3. Body English

Unit Two

 4. Avoiding the Road to Ruin

 5. "By June I'll Be as Spiky as a Needle. By Christmas I'll Be a Cushion."

 6. A Little Bit of Butter for My Bread: Nutrition in the Future

Unit Three

 7. Lving to Liars

 8. Seeing Is Believing

 9. A Case of Mutual Distrust

Unit Four

 10. The Life of the Mind - ATrbute to Two Professors

 11. Superiority Complex

 12. What We Learn from Anthropology

Unit Five

 13. Howto Win the War on Global Warming

 14. Move Over, Polar Bear

 15. Going Green by Empowering Choice

Unit Six

 16. A Is for Asp

 17. Love Among the Onions

 18. Literacy Is Everything,

Unit Seven

 19. Internet Wagering,: A Growing Concern

 20. Christmas Morning (I)

 21. Christmas Morning (11)

Unit Eight

 22. Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?

 23. Unplugged, ed: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom

 24. In Search of Einstein's Genius

Appendices

 Glossary

 Key to Comprehension Exerclse I of the Texts