本书为《21世纪大学英语读写教程》第三册。全书共十个单元,供一学期使用。
每一单元包括三篇课文。课文A为精读材料,课文B、C为泛读材料。三篇课文围绕着同一题材选定,每单元开始有PREVIEW(内容简介)。

Unit One
Text A How 1 Got Smart
Text B Coming of Age
Text C Romance and Reality
Unit Two
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat
Text B Unjust Desserts
Text C Will You Go Out With Me?
Unit Three
Text A The Sense of Wonder
Text B The Innocent Eye
Text C If l Were
Unit Four
Text A College Pressures
Text B College Lectures:ls Anybody Listening
Text C What ls College for?
Unit Five
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A:America seen with European Eyes
Text B American Values and Assumption
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans
Unit Six
Text A Every 23 Minutes
Text B Needed:A License to Drink
Text C My Daughter Smokes
Unit Seven
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So?
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness
Text C Quality of Life ls Much More Than a Job
Unit Eight
Text A The Highs of Low Technology
Text B Why I'm Not Going to Buy a Computer
Text C Obsolete Technology
Unit Nine
Text A Space Politics
Text B Message to the Unknown
Text C Your Futrue in Space
Unit Ten
Text A Plain Talk About Handing Stress
Text B Engrgy Walks
Text C Five Methods l Have Used to Banish Worry
Glossary

《21世纪大学英语》是根据教育部新颁发的《大学英语教学大纲(修订本)》编写的一套大学英语教材。《21世纪大学英语》在选材上注重内容的趣味性、信息性、可思性和前瞻性,同时也注意语言的规范性、致用性和文体的多样性。课文绝大多数选自20世纪八十年代出版的英美报刊书籍,为适合教学目的我们对部分内容作了删改。