《泛读教程》是“新空间大学英语”系列教材的主干教材之一。全套教材共四册，可供四个学期使用。 本教材具有较强的针对性，无论是选材还是练习的编排都充分考虑到教学要求和学生的特点。所选材料难度适中，短小精干，便于老师课堂操作和学生课上课下阅读；同时强调趣味性，所选文章贴近学生生活，反映学生感兴趣的话题，能够比较充分地调动学生阅读的热情：同时也注意将不同的文体和题材包括其中，使学生对不同类型的文体和话题有所接触，为他们在今后的就业中很快适应实际工作打好基础。 课后练习形式上注重多样性和趣味性。每个单元除了配有检查学生阅读理解的传统练习，还配有形式新颖的词汇巩固和扩展练习、文化知识练习、任务型练习等。词汇巩固和扩展练习将课文中重点词汇提出来操练。并从课文的题材出发，对相关词汇进行联想扩充，比较好地处理了阅读和词汇量积累之间的关系；任务型练习则有助于开发学生的创新思维能力，加深对所学语言知识的记忆，提高课下自主阅读的积极性。在练习中还融入了很多文化知识，有助于在提高学生理解能力的同时，扩大学生的知识面，增强对英语国家文化的了解。本书为《泛读教程》的第四册。

Unit 1 Transport
　Text A Proposed Future Transport
　Text B How We Traveled
　Leaming Activities
　Supplementary Reading Is it Safe to Travel Nowadays?
Unit 2 Detective Stories
　Text A The Dead Detective
　Text B Key to Success
　Learning Activities
　Supplementary Reading The Most Famous Detectives in Literature
Unit 3 Exploration
　Text A King of the Peaks
　Text B Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay [Hangchow]
　Learning Activities
　Supplementary Reading History of Exploration
Unit 4 Crisis
　Text A Three Hours of Fear and Hope （I）
　Text B Three Hours of Fear and Hope （II）
　Leaming Activities
　Supplementary Reading What Courage Looks Like?
Unit 5 Honesty
　Text A Excuses, Excuses
　Text B Let's Put the Heat on Campus Cheats
　Supplementary Reading Advice to Youth　
　Leaming Activities
Unit 6 Enjoy Listening!
　Text A How to Listen to Movies
　Text B How to Listen to TV News
　Learning Activities
　Supplementary Reading How to Listen to Songs
Unit 7 Tests
　Text A A Testing Time
　Text B IELTS and TOEFL
　Learning Activities
　Supplementary Reading
Unit 8 Poets and Poems
　Text A Walt Whitman
　Text B Robert Frost
　Leaming Activities
　Supplementary Reading Emily Dickinson
Unit 9 Famous Speeches
　Text A John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
　Text B Obituary to Princess Diana Speech
　Leaming Activities
　Supplementary Reading 9/11 Speech
Unit 10 Technology:A Blessing or a Curse
　text A Tech-ed off
　text B Cell Phones Indulge Arrogance of Youths
　……
Unit 11 Daddy-Long-Legs
Unit 12 Single Parent Families
Key to Some of the Exercises