《新编大学通识英语读写教程(第2册学生用书)》由樊国光主编，是适合国内大学本科学生使用的公共外语教材。每个单元围绕一个主题展开，与大学英语综合教程配套，以英语视听说为主要内容，侧重对学生听说能力的培养，配有视听光盘，并配有相应的习题进行针对性训练。

Module 1

 Text A The Wage War: Should America's Working Poor Get a Raise?

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Empowering Women to End Worldwide Poverty

 Selected Story Air Force One and the Farmer

Module 2

 Text A An Uncomfortable Bed

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Hungry for Books

 Selected Story The Husband Becoming His Wife's Son

Module 3

 Text A The Winters and the Palmleys

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Mo Yan's Nobel Lecture: Storytellers

 Selected Story Swallowing a Horse

Module 4

 Text A No Rules for the Rich: How China Spends Its New Wealth

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Billionaire Death Race: Inside America's Cup and the World's Most Dangerous Sailboat

 Selected Story Making the Big Decisions

Module 5

 Text A How Animals Predict Earthquakes

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry on

 Selected Story Always Take and Never Give

Module 6

 Text A Why Students Shouldn't Take Unpaid Internships

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B The Problem with Standardized Tests

 Selected Story The Power of Embrace and Kiss

Module 7

 Text A China's Middle Class Feels the Pinch of Rising Prices

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Tencent's Worth

 Selected Story A Pitiful Husband and His High-handed Wife

Module 8

 Text A So Many Books, So Little Time: A Passionate Reader's Story

 Paragraph Writing

 Text B Avoiding the Digital "Flock"

 Selected Story Shame, Shame, Shame

Vocabulary

 New Words

 Phrases and Expressions