《高级英语阅读教程》分上中下三册，共精选短文96篇，内容涉及中西文化、语言、教育、生活、媒介、历史、妇女问题、科技、人性、哲学、文学等，每册按主题分为16个单元，每个单元配有与学习内容相关的阅读理解、词义辨析、句子释义以及修辞等练习和思考题。该教程为英语专业高年级学生设计，也可用作大学英语研究生和本科生选修课教材或散文爱好者的读物。

Unit One
Text A What Life Means to Me (I) 
Text B Christmas


Unit Two
Text A What Life Means to Me (II)
Text B Regret


Unit Three
Text A Why I Write
Text B Still


Unit Four
Text A Playhouse Memoranda
Text B A Gift Of Dreams


Unit Five
Text A Two Casts of Mind
Text B French and English


Unit Six
Text A The Black and White Truth about Basketball
Text B On Being Fenale,Black,and Free


Unit Seven
Text A Araby
Text B Of Love


Unit Eight
Text A How Should One Read a Book
Text B On Reading


Unit Nine
Text A Impressions of America
Text B English Writers on America


Unit Ten
Text A On Going a Journey
Text B Here Is New York


Unit Eleven
Text A Long Walk to Forever
Text B My Reflections on Gandhi


Unit Twelve
Text A Grant and Lee
Text B A Visit to Walt Whitman


Unit Thirteen
Text A A modest Proposal
Text B A Letter fron Harlem


Unit Fourteen
Text A So Long;So Long!
Text B Mr. Bickerstaff Visits a Friend


Unit Fifteen
Text A If I Were A Freshman Again
Text B What's Your Emotional IQ


Unit Sixteen
Text A The Villain in the A tmosphere
Text B Clones: WillThere Be“Carbon Copy”People?
Reference Key to the Execises