由朱波主编的《研究生英语阅读教程》为非英语专业硕士生英语课量身定做，同时也适合通过大学英语四级、希望进一步提高英语水平的同学、备考大学英语六级和研究生英语入学考试的同学以及各种社会自学考试人员和自学者。

Unit 1

 Text A Apology of Socrates (Excerpt)

 Text B A Person Who Apologises Has the Moral Ball in His Court

Unit 2

 Text A The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power

 Text B How Should One Read a Book?

Unit 3

 Text A The Three New Yorks

 Text B A Unified Theory of Urban Living

Unit 4

 Text A Why Will Civilizations Clash?

 Text B Is American Culture "American"?

Unit 5

 Text A Celebrating Entrepreneurs

 Text B Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Unit 6

 Text A An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand

 Text B Filtering Wildlife

Unit 7

 Text A Genes for High Altitudes

 Text B Looking at Sexual Selection

Unit 8

 Text A On Friendship

 Text B A Friend in Need

Unit 9

 Text A We Need a Dug-Out Canoe to Navigate the Net 

 Text B Always On

Unit 10

 Text A The "Standard"

 Text B The Benefits of Multilingualism

Unit 11

 Text A A Crime of Compassion

 Text B In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia

Unit 12

 Text A From Composer to Interpreter to Listener

 Text B How We Listen to Music 

Unit 13

 Text A An Observation and an Explanation

 Text B Our Evolving View of Childhood

Unit 14

 TextA On Becoming a Scientist

 Text B What Is a Scientific Paper?

Unit 15

 Text A The Sporting Spirit

 Text B Reflections on Swimming

Unit 16

 Text A How to Avoid Foolish Opinions

 Text B The Advantages of Stupidity