由刘孝忠和林意新主编的《大学英语跟踪阅读》在选材中特别重视筛选新兴学科和内容新颖的文章，绝大部分选自近五年来一些知识面宽、科学性强、趣味性浓的英语读物，涉及语言、文化、习俗、伦理、信息、科学、社会焦点等诸多方面，使学生读来津津有味、妙趣横生、拓宽见闻、知识倍增，力求融语言知识学习、文化意识提高与批判性思维能力的培养为一体。同时，所选文章大部分出自名家之手，遣词造句文从字顺、语言规范、情景交融，使学生读来心领神会，易于吸收。

由刘孝忠和林意新主编的《大学英语跟踪阅读》（第二版）依据《大学英语课程教学要求》的精神，在同名书第一版的基础上修订而成，分为4册。本册17个单元，每单元由10篇阅读理解文章及不同形式的练习题构成。在编写过程中，力求所选文章依据难易梯度设置，各篇词汇分布均匀，尽可能覆盖《大学英语课程教学要求》中规定的词汇和各项语言基础知识。每篇阅读文章之前均提供了文章字数，供学生及时评估阅读速度和效率，逐步提高阅读理解能力。本次修订主要订正了第一版书中的个别错误，更换了少量难度或主题不甚理想的文章或习题，对文中的生词进行了重新全面排查和注释。本教程既可作为独立的大学英语阅读教材使用，也可配合大学英语主干教材使用。

《大学英语跟踪阅读》的目标读者为高等院校在校学生，大学英语四、六级备考人员及英语水平相当的其他人士。

Unit 1

 Intelligence

 Is the Octopus a Human Killer？

 Honeybee's Life in a Colony

 How to Grow Old？

 Are Moral Standards Declining？

 The Meanings of Residential Mobility

 The Finger of Suspicion

 The Study of Liberal Arts

 Who Are Susceptible to Colds？

 The Varieties of American Newspapers

Unit 2

 Are Camels Obedient Beasts of Burden？

 Sunlight

 The Power of Voice

 Energy

 Earthquake

 How to Train Your Dogs？

 A Woman Writer

 Psychology and Consumer

 Top Earning Wives and Their Marriages

 Crimes

Unit 3

 Life in the Future

 Health-Related Behaviors

 The First Subway

 Heroes

 Neanderthals

 High-tech Communications

 Organ Transplant

 Reading

 Population and Food

 Sport

Unit 4

 Pay Structure

 Social Status

 Social Factors and Music Prodigies

 Standard English

 Insurance

 Earthquake Prediction

 Clouds

 Libraries

 Caution with Concrete

 Liquid and Gas

Unit 5

 Libraries in Metropolitan Areas

 Accidents and Human Behavior

 A Refused Letter

 Rock Music

 Treatment of Bedtime Tantrums

 Population

 School Phobia

 Individual, Group and Crowd

 Gestures

 Turkey——The Symbol of America？

Unit 6

 The Effect of Noise Pollution

 Objects in Space

 Scientific Explanation

 Courses in University

 Trees

 Braille

 Can Clothes Reveal Ourselves？

 How to Stay Young

 Stradivari's Violins

 Thinking and Feeling

Unit 7

 Hunting and Sporting Activities

 Tourism

 The Prolonged Life

 Greenpeace

 A New Transformation of Hospitals

 A Significant Economic Issue——Inflation

 The Basic Economic Systems

 What Attracts One to Another

 A New Way to Keep Food Fresh

 The Search for a Vaccine Against Malaria

Unit 8

 The Effect of Air Pollution

 Adaptation of Living Things

 Many Divisions of Physics.

 Competition in America

 Fallacies about Food

 Appropriate Technology

 Birds and Planes

 How to Do Exercise

 Intelligence and Environment

 The Selection of English Teachers

Unit 9

 Olympic Sponsors

 How to Seek and Save Employees

 Believe Evidence or Not

 Mr. and Mrs. Lester

 Language and Culture

 The Private Ownership of Hydrogen Bombs

 Noise and Health

 Virus Blockers

 G and PG Movies

 Gallup Extreme Magic

Unit 10

 Culture Differences

 Parental Influence in Education

 Teaching and Research

 Stereotypes

 Opportunities and Concentration

 Stokoe and Sign Language

 Language and Brain Development

 Real Beauty

 Elite Pool

 Tips on Public Speaking

Unit 11

 Proteins in a Balanced Diet

 Teachers and Pupils' Attitudes

 Women's Well-Being

 Beauty

 Violence in American Families

 Glass

 Media Impact

 Adolescence

 Preparations for Job Interviews

 Animal Experiments

Unit 12

 What Is Nourishing to Eat？

 Sex Prejudice

 New Life for the Handicapped

 Three English Dictionaries

 Patent

 Credit Terms in Transactions

 Survival in Desert

 Eyes——Windows of the Soul

 Poverty i

 Animal Agriculture

Unit 13

 Bright or Not-So-Bright

 Computer Crimes

 Getting an Education

 The Computer and the Law

 Education——Global Enterprise

 Hi-tech in Developing Countries

 The Age of the Internet

 Old Love, Old Tunes

 Television

 Mars Exploration

Unit 14

 British Free Education Is at Risk

 Culture Activities

 On Intelligent People

 Dialect and Language

 New Life of Clinton

 The Curse on TV

 Bits

 Arranged Marriages in india

 The Golden Mean （PHI）

 The Antler Riddle

Unit 15

 Music-Culture

 The Internet's New Application

 Worrying Trend of Reading Ability

 How to Make Better Use of Humor

 Influence on Children's Personality

 Useless Generosity

 Challenging Medical Treatment

 Access to the Int6rnet

 Culture Shock

 An Analysis before Iraq War

Unit 16

 New Eating Trend

 Britain's Food Production

 Accountability

 The Theory of Losing Weight

 Global Climate Will Keep Changing

 The Oil Price Change Analysis

 Experiment on Chimpanzees

 The Solution to the Problems in INS

 Growing Older

 The Development of Information Carrier

Unit 17

 Wood or Brick

 Viruses

 Vitamin C and Cancer

 Laughter Works

 Memories of School Years

 Manners on the Road

 Water in a Growing Plant

 Lecture Method

 Safeguard It

 Types of Personality

 Reference Keys