章志萍、肖旭、李凌雲主編的《21世紀大學英
語應用型長篇閱讀(附光盤1十二五普通高等教育本
科國家級規劃教材)》著力加強學生在浩瀚的知識海
洋中提取重點信息的能力的訓練，以及大學英語四
、六級考試中長篇閱讀部分的應試能力和技巧。當
然，每單元習題還包括了2013年新增的段落翻譯題
型，以及原有的選詞填空和短文寫作。

Unit 1 College Life
Passage 1 University. There's No Better Place to Be at the Age of 18
Passage 2 What Was It Like to Be a University Student in the 1930s?
Passage 3 American University Students Work Too Much -- At Jobs, Not School
Unit 2 Language Learning
Passage 1 How I Became a UN Interpreter
Passage 2 What Makes a Language Attractive -- Its Sound, National Identity
or Familiarity?
Passage 3 Wanting It Enough, Why Motivation Is the Key to Language Learning?
Unit 3 Family
Passage 1 Minding the Nurture Gap
Passage 2 In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All
Passage 3 My Family Values
Unit 4 Pop Culture
Passage 1 WeOhat Striving for Global Expansion
Passage 2 Pop Culture in the Age of Obama
Passage 3 Plastic Surgery in Korea
Unit 5 Life Philosophy
Passage 1 The Moral Bucket List
Passage 2 What Your Disease Tells You About Life
Passage 3 Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Unit 6 No Cross No Crown
Passage 1 Rejections Oan Be Blessings in Disguise
Passage 2 Failure or Success -- It's a Grand Illusion
Passage 3 The Wisdom of Mistakes
Unit 7 Technology
Passage 1 Could You Do a Day Without Technology?
Passage 2 Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
Passage 3 How Today's Computers Weaken Our Brain
Unit 8 Planet
Passage 1 Why I'm Volunteering to Die on Mars
Passage 2 Can Rogue Planets Support Life?
Passage 3 Biodiversity -- Hang on
Appendix Keys and Answers