本书为《大学英语教程》（College English）第五册的续编，供大学英语本科高年级阅读课使用。书中收集课文十五篇，除个别篇子作了少量压缩外，都是未做任何改动的原文。本书所选文章，大部分已在北京外国语学院英语系**过。我们衷心希望使用本书的同志提出改进意见，以便修订。

Lesson One Text:What's Wrong with Our Press?by Marya Mannes
Lesson Two Text:What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
Lesson Three Text:Eveline by James Joyce
Lesson Four Text:The Tragedy of old Age in America by Robert N.Butler
Lesson Five Text:The Spanish Bullfight by Alistair Cooke
Lesson Six Text:Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
Lesson Seven Text:Science Has Spoiled My Supper by Philip Whlie
Lesson Nine Text:Vivisection by C.S.Lewis
Lesson Ten Text:On Human Nature and Politics
Lesson Eleven Text:Is America Falling Apart?by Anthony Burgess
Lesson Twelve Text:The Everlasting Witness by Margaret Shedd
Lesson Thirteen Text:Ace in the Hole by John Updike
Lesson Fourteen:Text:Selected Snobberies by Aldous Huxley
Lesson Fifteen Text:Three-Dimensional Youth by Ehsan Naraghi