《大学英语阅读教程》是专门为非英语专业的大学生编写的，可用作大学英语课程的补充阅读教材。全书共分四册，本书为其中的第一册。全书共分5个部分，内容包括：快乐阅读，语言理解能力，词汇，思考能力，快速阅读等。

PART 1 Pleasure Reading

 Unit 1: Fairy Tales

 Unit 2: Stories

 Unit 3: Reading Books for Pleasure

PART 2 Comprehension Skills

 Unit 1 : Basic Reading Habits for Improving Concentration

 Unit 2: Previewing and Making Predictions

 Unit 3: Scanning

 Unit 4: Making Inferences

 Unit 5: Looking for Topics

 Unit 6: Comprehending Paragraphs

PART 3 Vocabulary Building

 Unit 1: Increasing Word Power

 Unit 2: Learning About Context

 Unit 3: Guessing Word Meanings

 Unit 4: Noticing Word Parts

PART 4 Thinking Skills

PART 5 Reading Faster

 Unit 1 : Reading Power Magazines

 Unit 2: Life in America