由郭杰克主编的《全新版大学英语<第2版>快速阅读3》是普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材，是教育部推荐使用的大学外语类教材。它的目的在于提高英语阅读速度，以适应目前信息量日益膨胀的现状。全书共分八个单元，其中每个单元由A-1、A-2和B-1、B-2四篇短文组成。每个单元的A-1和B-1供课堂使用，A-2和B-2供课外阅读。本书主要供修读要求较高的学生使用。

Unit 1

Text A-1 Why I Love the City

Text A-2 People on the Move

Text B-1 Caution: Bumpy Road Ahead

Text B-2 Memory Lane Isn't What It Used to Be

Unit 2

Text A-1 Frederick Douglass

Text A-2 Best of Friends, Worlds Apart

Text B-1 Coming to an Awareness of Language

Text B-2 She Wanted to Teach

Unit 3

Text A-1 Brave New World of Biometrics

Text A-2 Fingerprints Instead of Credit Cards

Text B-1 Black Box Tells Its Secrets

Text B-2 The Deli

Unit 4

Text A-1 Everything Equals E=mc2

Text A-2 Black Holes

Text B-1 The Cosmos

Text B-2 Stars

Unit 5

Text A-1 The Cost-Benefit Principle

Text A-2 The Economics of Product Design

Text B-1 Lawyers and Professors and Cars and Clothing

Text B-2 Why Do "Almost New" Used Cars Sell for So Much Less Than Brand-new Ones？

Unit 6

Text A-1 The First Read

Text A-2 The Gift

Text B-1 Peanuts Creator Schulz Dies on Eve of Last Strip

Text B-2 Linda's New Friend

Unit 7

Text A-1 Starting Your Own Business

Text A-2 A Team Leader

Text B-1 Working for Fun and Profit

Text B-2 The Carpet Fitter

Unit 8

Text A-1 A Tree Project Helps the Genes of Champions Live On

Text A-2 Cloning

Text B-1 Engineers Ask Nature for Design Advice

Text B-2 Flowers in the Desert？

Appendix

Key to Comprehension Exercises