《普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材:现代大学英语(第2版)精读3》紧扣《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》，各册间坡度设计合理，着重训练学生的语言基本功；语法和词汇的巩固训练更具系统性。吸纳了国外最新的语言材料，体裁、题材丰富，内容新颖，涉及独立思考、批判思维、人际关系、种族歧视、人与自然、生活方式、价值观念等各个方面。
目录
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pronunciation Table
Unit 1
Text A Your College Years
Text B Predictable Crises of Early Adulthood
Unit 2
Text A How Reading Changed My Life
Text B How Books Helped Shape My Life
Unit 3
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
Unit 4
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Unit 5
Text A Silent Spring
Text B The ABCs of Global Warming
Unit 6
Text A How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem?
Text B They Dared Cocaine-and Lost
Unit 7
Inter-Lesson (Ⅰ)
Unit 8
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Unit 9
Text A Globalization's Dual Power
Text B The International Language of Gestures
Unit 10
Text A The End of the Civil War
Text B Mercy at Appomattox
Unit 11
Text A Why Historians Disagree
Text B The Third Man
Unit 12
Text A The Most Dangerous Game
Text B The Big Buffalo Bass
Unit 13
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All
Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Unit 14
Inter-Lesson (Ⅱ)
Unit 15
Text A A Drink in the Passage
Text B The Bench
Unit 16
Text A Twelve Angry Men
Text B Harry Hoffman
Glossary
Language Items
Word-formation Rules Summarized
前言