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《全新版大学英语<第2版>阅读教程(高级本学生用书2普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材)》(作者柯彦玢)是该套书中的一册，共分为8单元内容。

Unit One

1. Becoming Educated

2. Classroom Notetaking

3. What Is an Idea?

Unit Two

4. Lots of Luck

5. Three Peach Stones

6. Climblng the Mountain of Success

Unit Three

7. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

8. Father and Son

9. Old Country Advlce to the American Traveler

Unit Four

10. You've Got Mail

11. Trapped in the Web

12. Everyone's a Journalist

Unit Five

13. Courtesy: Key to a Happier World

14. The Art of Acknowledgement

15. From Nonreading to Reading

Unit Six

16. Born to Be Different

17. Donna Shirley

18. The Soft Sell

Unit Seven

19. Fear of Dearth

20. Let the Games Begin

21. Built to Swim, Phelps Found a Focus and Refuge in Water

Unit Eight

22. Clicking, at Last, on "Don't Prlntg".

23. Not Seeing the Forest for the Dollar Bills

24. Noise: It Can Kill You

Glossary