梅仁毅主编的《现代大学英语（精读5）》供大学本科一至三年级学生及水平相当的学习者使用。

精读课的地位和作用，历来为英语教学工作者所公认。随着我国进一步的改革开放和对外语人才的要求的不断提高，它的重要性只会更加突出。但当前的确也存在商品经济所造成的浮躁、虚夸、急功近利，甚至投机取巧的社会心理对这门课的冲击，以及有关教材跟不上形势的情况。编写本书的目的就是希望能对解决这个问题做出我们微薄的贡献。

Lesson One Where Do We Go from Here?

Lesson Two Two Kinds

Lesson Three Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.

Lesson Four Professions for Women

Lesson Five Love Is a Fallacy

Lesson Six Life Beyond Earth

Lesson Seven Invisible Man

Lesson Eight The Merely Very Good

Lesson Nine The Way to Rainy Mountain

Lesson Ten Before and After September 11

Lesson Eleven An Iowa Christmas

Lesson Twelve How News Becomes Opinion and Opinion Off-limits

Optional Reading

Lesson One Literally

Lesson Two How I Edited an Agricultural Paper

Lesson Three Territorial Behavior

Lesson Four The National Coalition