“现代大学英语”系列教材由北京外国语大学英语学院的众多知名专家精心编写，融合了当代语言教学的研究成果和编者多年的教学经验，供高等院校英语专业本科学生使用。教材自出版以来广受好评，并先后被列入“十五”、“十一五”国家级规划教材。为更好地服务于高校英语专业本科教学，在广泛收集读者反馈的基础上，我们对本系列教材进行了修订。侯毅凌主编的《现代大学英语阅读》（第二版）由1—4册组成。《现代大学英语阅读》是该套书第4册。

1.Fard

2.Cathedral

3.The Drunkard

4.The Duchess and the Jeweller

5.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

6.The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die

7.The Value of Working

8.Timoshenko

9.Women

10.The Faltering Family

11.The Pursuit of Happiness: Then and Now

12.Just like Us?

13.Recollections of the Gas Buggy: Footnotes to an Era for the Future Historian

14.A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose

15.Heroin/e

16.The Case for Censorship

17.Enemies

18.A New Declaration of Independence

19.Proxemics in a Cross-Cultural Context: Germans, English, and French

20.The Broken Boot

21.Marvin Smith: Undercover for the FBI

22.My Father

23.The Tortures of Weekend Visiting

24.The Most Dangerous Game

25.Thinking in Packages

26.The Tell-Tale Heart

27.The Affair at 7, Rue de M—

28.Brass Hats

29.In the Gloaming

30.The Fate of Thomas Paine

31.Long Day's Journey into Night

32.Androcles and the Lion

33.An Enemy of the People

Key to Exercises