由欧阳俊林主编的《新编大学英语阅读教程（4级修订版）》广泛收集了现代英语，特别是近十年来英美社会的多式样语言文本。话题覆盖了当今政治、经济、文化、科技、教育、心理、人文、社会等诸多方面，帮助读者了解当今国际各领域的发展动态和问题，并从接触真实语料入手，学习和掌握语言形式、功能和用法，加深语言理解，从而全面提高学生英语语言的阅读水平，增强学生参加新体制下的大学英语四、六级考试的应试能力。

Unit 1 Nature

 Passage 1 Surviving a Tsunami -- Lessons from Chile， Hawaii，and Japan

 Passage 2 The 1960 Tsunami and the Earthquake in Chile That Caused It

 Passage 3 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake

Unit 2 Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom

 Passage 1 A Note on Reading

 Passage 2 Books

 Passage 3 The Joys of Writing

Unit 3 Education

 Passage 1 How Colleges Are Failing Our Students

 Passage 2 The Ivory Tower Obscurity Fetish

 Passage 3 How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing？

Unit 4 Employment

 Passage 1 Four Minutes That Get You Hired

 Passage 2 Academy for Amahs

 Passage 3 The Most Frequent Fliers

Unit 5 Women' s Problems

 Passage 1 Woman and Superwoman

 Passage 2 In Pursuit of Thinness

 Passage 3 Eveline

Unit 6 Life Experiences

 Passage 1 How to Grow Old

 Passage 2 Welcome to My Day

 Passage 3 Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly

Unit 7 People in History

 Passage 1 The Secret Life of a Very Private Poet

 Passage 2 Memories of My Early Childhood with Willie Nelson

 Passage 3 The Crusades

Unit 8 Digital Technology

 Passage 1 Textuality in Cyberspace: MUDS and Written Experience

 Passage 2 The ABC' s of MP3：A Crash Course in the Digital Music Phenomenon

 Passage 3 The Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age

Unit 9 Environment and People

 Passage 1 Environment: The Good News

 Passage 2 Three Revolutions in Human Populations

 Passage 3 The Culture of Nature

Unit 10 Human Ethics

 Passage 1 Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning

 Passage 2 Technology and the Media

 Passage 3 Modem Technology and American Values

Unit 11 Values of Thinking

 Passage 1 Thinking as a Hobby （Ⅰ）

 Passage 2 Thinking as a Hobby （Ⅱ）

 Passage 3 The Aesthetic Moment

Unit 12 Science and Technology

 Passage 1 The Govemment Should Not Subsidize Intemet Access

 Passage 2 Forecasting Danger: The Science of Disaster Prediction

 Passage 3 Human Habitation

Unit 13 Society

 Passage 1 Crime and Punishment

 Passage 2 I Am a Dollar

 Passage 3 Guardians of the Fairytale

Unit 14 Psychology

 Passage 1 What You Didn't Know about Risk

 Passage 2 Are Boys the Weaker Sex？

 Passage 3 What We Now Know about Memory

Unit 15 Human Relations Generation Gap，Love，Marriage and Family

 Passage 1 Generation Gap and Value Shift

 Passage 2 The Younger Generation

 Passage 3 The Dying Family

Key to Exercises