《泛读教程(2修订版)》的特征体现在“泛”与“读”两个方面。就“泛”而言，教材选用语言素材题材广泛，内容呈百科知识性，涉及英语国家的社会、政治、经济、文化、文学、历史、累教、体育、医药、环保、风土人情、科普知识等各个领域。同时，语言素材的文体呈多样性，既有文学作品，又有记叙、说明、议论、新闻、广告等语言风格不同的各类文章。本书由王守仁//高虹编写。

READING SKILL：Finding the Main Idea

UNIT 1

TEXT Ⅰ:How Can a Person Learn to Read Faster?

TEXT Ⅱ:Reading Tastes and Hbits

UNIT 2

TEXT Ⅰ:Musics History May Show a Path to Future Peace

TEXT Ⅱ:Listening to Music

UNIT 3

TEXT Ⅰ:The Law vs.the Piano

TEXT Ⅱ:Bricklayers Boy

UNIT 4

TEXT Ⅰ:What Makes the Weather?

TEXT Ⅱ:Types of Climate

UNIT 5

TEXT Ⅰ:Why People Work

TEXT Ⅱ:Who Makes It to the Top?-Upward Mobility in the Business World

UNIT 6

TEXT Ⅰ:Martin Luther King

TEXT Ⅱ:The First Black Woman Receiving Nobel Prize in Literature

UNIT 7

TEXT Ⅰ:Orpheus and Eurydice

TEXT Ⅱ:The Return of Odysseus

UNIT 8

TEXT Ⅰ:The Power of Personal Attitudes

TEXT Ⅱ:Dare Mighty Things

UNIT 9

TEXT Ⅰ:First Aid

TEXT Ⅱ:How to Deal with Common Emergencies

UNIT 10

TEXT Ⅰ:You Will Have a Good Life

TEXT Ⅱ:Wedding Customs in the West

READING SKILL:Outining

UNIT 11

TEXT Ⅰ:Where Do Those Bright Ideas Come From?

TEXT Ⅱ:How to Get a Great Idea?

UNIT 12

TEXT Ⅰ:Travel Around and USA

TEXT Ⅱ:Tourism

UNIT 13

TEXT Ⅰ:Types of Examinations

TEXT Ⅱ:Cheating:Alive and Flourishing

UNIT 14

TEXT Ⅰ:Copyright

TEXT Ⅱ:Patents

UNIT 15

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UNIT 18