《英语读写教程》是为高等院校英语专业一、二、三年级学生编写的基础英语教材。
本书是张建民主编的《英语读写教程（初级）》，是这套书的第一册。该书共12个单元，每个单元有A和B两篇课文。课文后附有不同类型及难度的练习。高级分册的教学围绕培养学生正式的、学术语言的使用，以及学生分析、批判、鉴赏各种类型文章的能力展开。

Unit 1
Text A Education and Social Change
Text B What Is a University
Unit 2
Text A The English Major
Text B Fresh Start
Unit 3
Text A How Should One Read a Book
Text B The Delights of Books
Unit 4
Text A The Chaser
Text B For Better,for Worse
Unit 5
Text A An Ethic of Clarity
Text B Connotation
Unit 6
Text A Advice to Youth
Text B Two Truths to Live By
Unit 7
Text A Waiting for Godot Act 1 (excerpt)
Text B The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act III, Scene 1
Unit 8
Text A The Science of Difference
Text B Inequality, Race and Remedy
Unit 9
Text A The Ugly Truth
Text B What Makes People Unhappy
Unit 10
Text A The Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy
Text B Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Unit 11
Text A Fire and Ice Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Text B She Was a Phantom of Delight I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Unit 12
Text A Metaphor and Nationality
Text B The Melting-Pot Mistake