《全新版大学英语》(第二版)系列教材秉承首版教材的优良传统，继承兼收并蓄的折中主义教学理念，参照《大学英语课程教学要求》修订，更加贴近教学实际，更有效提升学习者语言综合应用能力，更好满足新时期人才培养需求。

《全新版大学英语<第2版>阅读教程(通用本学生用书5普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材)》(作者李霄翔)是该套书中的一册，共8个单元，每单元有3篇阅读文章，共有24篇阅读文章

Unit One

1. What Is a Great Book?

2. A Love Affair with Books

3. Body English

Unit Two

4. Avolding the Road to Ruin

5. "By June I'll Be as Spiky as a Needle. By Christmas I'll Be a Cushion.".

6. A Little Bit of Butter for My Bread: Nutrition in the Future

Unit Three

7. Lying to Liars

8. Seeing Is Believinh

9. A Case of Mutual Distrust

Unit Four

10. The Life of the Mind - A Tribute to Two Professors

11. Superiority Complex

12. What We Learn from Anthropology

Unit Five

13. How to Win the War on Global Warming

14. Move Over, Polar Bear

15. Going Green by Empowering, Choice

Unit Six

16. A Is for Asp

17. Love Among, the Onions

18. Literacy Is Everything

Unit Seven

19. Internet Wagering: A Growing, Concern

20. Christmas Morning (I)

21. Christmas Morning (II)

Unit Eight

22. Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?

23. Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom

24. In Search of Einstein's Genius

Appendices

Glossary

Key to Comprehension Exercise I of the Texts