本书是高等学校英语专业系列教材之一，全书选材广泛，涉及面广，涵盖了军事、政治、教育等领域，书中每单元都围绕着一个学生感兴趣的主题选取多篇阅读文章，提供了丰富的语言素材，贴近时代特征，既令人耳目一新，又大大增强了该书的可读性，使学生在学习语言本身的同时，也掌握了其他方面的知识，增长了见识。

《英语泛读教程3》为《求知高等学校英语专业系列教材》之一。本书选材广泛，涉及面广，涵盖了军事、政治、教育等领域，真正地体现了一个“泛”字。除此之外，该书在前两册的基础上做了一些调整和改进，内容更新颖。全书共14个单元，每单元都围绕着一个学生感兴趣的主题选取多篇阅读文章，提供了丰富的语言素材，贴近时代特征，既令人耳目一新，又大大增强了该书的可读性，使学生在学习语言本身的同时，也掌握了其他方面的知识，增长了见识。

本书既可供英语专业的学生使用，又可作为英语中高级读物，供有一定基础的英语自学者和英语爱好者使用。

Unit 1 Neck to Neck: 2000 U.S. Presidential Election

What do you know?

Text 1 How the Electoral College Works

Text 2 How We Got Here : A Timeline of the Florida Recount

Text 3 Analysis Indicates Many Gore Votes Thrown Out in Florida

Text 4 Media Recount: Bush Won the 2000 Election

Text 5 Governor George W. Bush Delivers Remarks

Unit 2 September 11 : Doubts about the Official Stories

What do you know?

Text 1 Sept 11 : Unanswered Questions Index Page

Text 2 George W. Bush

Text 3 From Deception to Revelation Part I

Text 4 From Deception to Revelation Part II

Unit 3 U.S. Political Jokes

What do you know?

Text 1 What Is Politics?

Text 2 Cows & Politics Explained

Text 3 Democrats versus Republicans

Text 4 The Very High Health Care Costs

Text 5 Flags Tell Us Information about Our Taxes

Text 6 King George the Third's Response to the Declaration of Independence

Text 7 Short Laughs & Quips

Text 8 Purchasing New Brains

Text 9 A Story of Creation

Text 10 Campaign Promises and More Promises

Unit 4 U.S. Arsenals during the Afghan War

  What do you know?

Text I The Weapons of Operation Enduring Freedom Part Ⅰ

Text 2 The Weapons of operation Enduring Freedom Part Ⅱ

Text 3 The Weapons of Operation Enduring Freedom Part Ⅲ

Text 4 The Weapons of Operation Enduring Freedom Part Ⅳ 

Unit 5 Swift U.S. Victory over Iraqi War

What do you know?

Text 1 War Plans for War with Iraq

Text 2 Iraqi Strategy

Text 3 Combat Air Force Assets in Place Around Iraq

Text 4 The Progress Timetable for the Iraqi War

Unit 6 Lessons Learnt from the 21st Century Wars

What do you know?

Text 1 Iraq Lessons Learned Part Ⅰ

Text 2 Iraq Lessons Learned Part Ⅱ

Text 3 Iraq Lessons Learned Part Ⅲ

Text 4 Iraq Lessons Learned Part Ⅳ

Unit 7 Is Iraq Another Vietnam?

What do you know?

Text 1 A Different Picture

Text 2 Is Iraq Another Vietnam? Actually, It May Become Worse

Text 3 How to End the Occupation

Unit 8 Washington Serial Shooting

What do you know?

Text I U.S. Army Set to Join Washington Sniper Hunt

Text 2 Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Text 3 The Washington Area (Tarot Card) Sniper

Unit 9 Campus Shooting

What do you know?

Text 1 "An Evil Smile"

Text 2 California's Excessive Gun Laws

Text 3 Kids and Guns in America

Unit 10 U.S. Education Reform

What do you know?

Text 1 How Do the Primary and Middle School (K-12) Students Learn in the United States?

Text 2 How Well Do the American Students Do in K-12 Schools ?

Text 3 Education Reform

Text 4 Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

Unit 11 The Race to Mars

What do you know?

Text 1 Mars Rovers FAQ: from Launch to Landing

Text 2 British Ask NASA for Help on Lander

Text 3 Opportunity Lands on Mars

Unit 12 Video Cameras in Our Life

What do you know?

Text 1 Researcher Develops Advanced Motion-tracking Camera for Surveillance, Security, Videoconferencing

Text 2 Spy Cameras Broaden Focus

Text 3 NASA Scientists Invented New Video Technology

Text 4 Sounds Attract Camera

Text 5 "Camera Pill" Promising for Diagnosis of Small Bowel Disease

Unit 13 Advances in Artificial Intelligence

What do you know?

Text 1 Computer Chess History

Text 2 Deep Fritz Loses to Chess Champion

Text 3 Better Business Computering

Text 4 Building Deep Blue

Unit 14 Computer Games

What do you know?

Text 1 The Making of Doom Ⅲ

Text 2 A Play for Better Soldiers

Text 3 Computer Games Stunt Teen Brains

Text 4 Zap! Go to the Top of the Class