《全新版大学英语》(第二版)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。

《全新版大学英语<第2版>阅读教程(通用本学生用书1普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材)》(作者王秀珍、樊葳葳)是该套书中的一册，选文情理兼顾，练习注重实效，共分为8个单元。

Unit One

1. Goodbye School

2. The Saturday Evening Post

3. Love Thy Neighbor

Unit Two

4. Making Friends in American Culture

5. My Daughter, My Friend

6. Hope in a Bottle

Unit Three

7. The Fun They Had

8. Today's Technology Could Seem Goofy Tomorrow

9. A Short Biography of the Long Life of Benjamin Franklin

Unit Four

10. Are You Trying Real Hard?

11. Jim Lovell: An Astronaut's Story

12. Only Daughter

Unit Five

13. Take This Job and Love It

14. A Lamp in a Window

15. Stock and Gown

Unit Six

16. My Only True Love

17. The Dragon Rock

18. Does Sleep Help You Study?

Unit Seven

19. Leaving the Land of the Blind

20. The Christmas Truce

21. An American Educator's Fable

Unit Eight

22. Students Who Push Burgers

23. A Small Miracle

24. You Can Have Anythino You Want, But You Can't Have Everything

You Want

Appendices

Glossary

Key to Comprehension Exercise I of the Texts