高广文、何英主编的《PERSPECTIVES高级英语阅读教程》是根据教育部高等学校英语专业教学指导委员会英语组制定的《英语教学大纲》(2000年4月修订版)的精神、并结合目前我国高等学校英语专业教学实际编写的英语专业高年级阅读教材。编写遵循阅读量大、题材广泛、观点包容、形式多样的原则。全书分两册，各十章，共二十章，每章含三篇阅读课文。阅读内容按主题分为：论阅读、大自然、人与身份、个人与社会、哲学、文化、艺术、心理学、科学和技术、经济学、历史、教育、语言、政治、环境保护、大众媒体、人物传记等。选文体裁包括论说文、杂文、短篇小说、诗歌等。选文为名家名作英文原作，少数中国典籍英译文均出自母语为英语的汉学家、翻译大家之手。本教材适合英语专业高年级学生、研究生、青年教师进修使用。本教材对读者视野的开拓、思辨能力的增强以及英语表达质量的提高都会有较大帮助。
《PERSPECTIVES高级英语阅读教程(上21世纪英语专业系列教材)》为上册内容。

前言
Chapter One On Reading
Of Studies
Francis Bacon
How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
Reading
Anton Chekhov
Chapter Two Nature
Nonmoral Nature
Stephen Jay Gould
Nature (excerpts)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Build a Fire
Jack London
Chapter Three Man and His Identity
What Is Man?
B. F. Skinner
Letter to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope
The Man-Moth
Elizabeth Bishop
Chapter Four Individual & Society
The Origin of Civil Society
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Individual and the Crowd
Soren Kierkegaard
The Unknown Citizen
W. H. Auden
Chapter Five Philosophy
The Nature of Philosophy
R. J. Hollingdale
Book of Changes(I Ching) (excerpts)
Anonymous
The Allegory of the Cave
Plato
Chapter Six Culture
Context and Meaning
Edward T. Halt
Mythology
Robert Graves
Shakespeare in the Bush
Laura Bohannan
Chapter Seven Art
The Nature of Beauty
George Santayana
Pop Architecture
Ada Louise Huxtable
The Idea of Order at Key West
Wallace Stevens
Chapter Eight Psychology
The Theories of Freud: a General Survey
J. A. C. Brown
The Concept of the Collective Unconscious
Carl G. Jung
Why We Crave Horror Movies
Stephen King
Chapter Nine Science & Technology
The Moral Un-Neutrality of Science
Charles P. Snow
How Car Engines Work
Marshall Brain
Why Is the Sky Blue?
Anonymous
Chapter Ten Economics
The Nature and Method of Economics
Compbell R. McConnell & Stanley L. Brue
The Costs of Unemployment
Karl E. Case & Ray C. Fair
The Economic Sources of Consciousness
Karl Marx ~ Friedrich Engels