“以精带泛,精泛并举”是经外语教学多年实践证明行之效的原则,是学习外语的必经之路。《现代大学英语阅读》是外研社出版的《现代大学英语》课本的配套读本。现代大学英语教程的基本设想是以90篇精读课文为核心,加上本套半精半泛的配合性阅读作为延伸,*后再配上50本左右的自由阅读书单,使英语学习者基本上做到阅读过关,为全面掌握英语各项技能打下基础。本书由300篇注释短文组成,所选短文包括童话、寓言、故事、小说、戏剧、散文等各种体裁,代表不同作家各种不同风格的作品,这些文章将帮助您领略英语的美妙,配上形象的插图,将使学习英语真正成为一件轻松愉悦的事情。本书所收集的短文都是经过多方搜索、认真筛选而来。编者力求内容和语言均能吸引读者,使读者爱不释手。编者同时相信,这套包含不同题材的读本将向您展现英语**文化的方方面面,从而增长您的知识,开阔您的眼界,促进您的思考。-

【本书目录】
Fard (by Aldous Huxley)
Cathedral (by Raymond Carver)
The Drunkard (by Frank O''Connor)
The Duchess and the Jeweller (by Virginia Woolf)
The Secret Life of walter Mitty (by James Thurber)
The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die (by Mordecai Richler)
The Value of Working (by Lance Morrow)
Timoshenko (by Iain Crichton Smith)
Women (by Brigid Brophy)
The Faltering Family (by George Gallup, Jr.)
The Pursuit of Happines: Then and Now (by Edward Banfield, Allan Bloom, and Charles Murray)
Just like Us? (a forum)
Recollections of the Gas Buggy: Footnotes to an Era for the Future Historian (by James Thurber)
A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose (by Ian Frazier)
Heroin/e (by Cheryl Strayed)
The Case for Censorship (by Irving Kristol)
Enemies (by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
A New Declaration of Independence (by Charles Siegel)
Proxemics in a Cross-Cultural Context: Germans, English, and French (by Edward T. Hall)
The Broken Boot (by John Galsworthy)
Marvin Smith: Undercover for the FBI (by Randy Fitzgerald)
My Father (by Doris Lessing)
The Tortures of Weedend Visiting (by Robert C. Benchley)
The Most Dangerous Game (by Richard Connell)
Thinking in Packages (by John Garvey)
The Tell-Tale Heart (by Edgar Allan Poe)
The Affair at 7, Rue de M - (by John Steinbeck)
Brass Hats (by Ernie Pyle)
In the Gloaming (by Alice Elliott Dark)
The Fate of Thomas Paine (by Bertrand Russell)
Long Day''s Journey into Night (by Eugene O''Neill)
Androcles and the Lion (by George Bernard Shaw)
An Enemy of the People (by Henrik Ibsen)