张砚秋编著的《大学英语泛读(6）》为《大学英语》系列教材(第三版)泛读教程。本次修订是按照2004年教育部颁布的《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》并结合当前我国大学英语的实际情况而进行的。因此，我们的修订方向是：在提高阅读能力的同时，要注重培养学生综合应用英语的能力。

《大学英语》泛读教程第五、六册在本次修订时，听取了使用院校的意见，压缩了篇幅，由每册十个单元压缩到八个单元，每单元仍保留三篇课文。由于各院校课程安排不同，各地学生阅读能力存在差异，各院校可视具体情况有选择地使用本教材。我们在编排时，每个单元的第一课内容更精彩，使用时可着重处理。

UNIT ONE

1.The Kindness of Strangers

2.Drowning

3.Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary

UNIT Two

4.My Way to Success

5.Why Smart People Fail

6.I Never Had It Made

UNIT THREE

7.The City

8.My Cousin, the Gambler

9.Waiting-Room

UNIT FOUR

10.Carnegie, an American Industrialist

11.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come Till 4: 30

12.The Pace of Life

TEST YOURSELF (1)

UNIT FIVE

13.The Importance of Being Interested

14.Why Graduates Won't Wear Science

15.Sold on the Super Mall

UNIT SIX

16.Mr.Know-All

17.They Created the Jet Age

18."No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache"

UNIT SEVEN

19.Family Ties

20.Improving the Quality of Life

21.The Nobel Prizes

UNIT EIGHT

22.University Days

23.Space -- 30 Years into the Future

24."A Troublesome Boy".

TEST YOURSELF (2)

APPENDICES:

1. Glossary

2. Key to Test Yourself (1) and (2)

3.Key to Comprehension of the Text