张砚秋编著的《大学英语泛读(6）》为《大学英语》系列教材(第三版)泛读教程。本次修订是按照2004年教育部颁布的《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》并结合当前我国大学英语的实际情况而进行的。因此，我们的修订方向是：在提高阅读能力的同时，要注重培养学生综合应用英语的能力。
《大学英语》泛读教程第五、六册在本次修订时，听取了使用院校的意见，压缩了篇幅，由每册十个单元压缩到八个单元，每单元仍保留三篇课文。由于各院校课程安排不同，各地学生阅读能力存在差异，各院校可视具体情况有选择地使用本教材。我们在编排时，每个单元的第一课内容更精彩，使用时可着重处理。
UNIT ONE
1.The Kindness of Strangers
2.Drowning
3.Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary
UNIT Two
4.My Way to Success
5.Why Smart People Fail
6.I Never Had It Made
UNIT THREE
7.The City
8.My Cousin, the Gambler
9.Waiting-Room
UNIT FOUR
10.Carnegie, an American Industrialist
11.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come Till 4: 30
12.The Pace of Life
TEST YOURSELF (1)
UNIT FIVE
13.The Importance of Being Interested
14.Why Graduates Won't Wear Science
15.Sold on the Super Mall
UNIT SIX
16.Mr.Know-All
17.They Created the Jet Age
18."No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache"
UNIT SEVEN
19.Family Ties
20.Improving the Quality of Life
21.The Nobel Prizes
UNIT EIGHT
22.University Days
23.Space -- 30 Years into the Future
24."A Troublesome Boy".
TEST YOURSELF (2)
APPENDICES:
1. Glossary
2. Key to Test Yourself (1) and (2)
3.Key to Comprehension of the Text
