《高職高專英語泛讀教程》是一套實用新穎、學考並重的全新閱讀教材。全套教材共分三冊，每冊，
具有以下特點：
選材多樣新穎，語言地道，內容深刻，篇幅及難度適中。
課後練習豐富多樣.從不同的角度訓練和提高學生的英語水平和應用能力。
繫統講解閱讀技巧，並配以針對性強的練習，有效地鞏固和提高學生的閱讀技能。
緊密結合“高職高專英語應用能力考試”和“大學英語四級考試”，使學生在日常學習中輕松備考。

《高職高專英語泛讀教程（1）》以當前我國高職高專英語教學的實際需要為出發點，以培養學生的英語綜合應用能力為目標，以突出和強化學生閱讀技能訓練與培養為目的，而設計、開發的一套貼近高職學生生活，實用新穎，學、考並重的全新閱讀教材。
本教材依據《高職高專教育英語課程教學基本要求》，結合高等學校英語應用能力A、B級考試和大學英語四級考試，按照實用、夠用的原則，設計、編的內容和體例，旨在幫助學生培養良好的閱讀習慣，掌握實用的英語閱讀知識和技巧，提高英語的文字處理能力，順利通過A、B級和四級考試，並為學生的可持續性發展創造良好條件。

Unit 1 Bearing Friendship in Mind
Passage A Mr. Gillespie
Reading Skills Preview
Passage B A Journey of Friendship
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun A New Friend of Doziest Sleepers

Unit 2 Never Forgetting Mothers Love
Passage A Mystery of the White Gardenia
Reading Skills Guessing Unknown Words from Context （1）
Passage B Love Is like a Broken Arm
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun Tom and His Mother

Unit 3 Showing Mercy to the Weak
Passage A Breakfast at McDonalds
Reading Skills Guessing Unknown Words from Context （2）
Passage B The Kindness of a Stranger
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun A Football Fan

Unit 4 Kee in Our Planet Clean
Passage A You Have Lost Something
Reading Skills Guessing Unknown Words from Context （3）
Passage B Too High a Price?
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun The Lonely Hamster

Unit 5 Taking Advantage of the Internet
Passage A Free Downloading——A Hot Issue
Reading Skills Guessing Unknown Words from Word Formation （1）
Passage B Childrens Internet Usage： How Parents Can Take Control
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun The Misdirected Vacation E-mail

Unit 6 Realizing a Nice Dream
PassageA If the Dream Is Big Enough
Reading Skills Guessing Unknown Words from Word Formation （2）
Passage B The Two Roads
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun Your Horse Called

Unit 7 Fighting Terrible Diseases
Passage A Please Dress Me in Red
Reading Skills Looking for Topic Sentences
Passage B The Story of a Fathers" Love for His Disabled Son
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun What Happened in Texas?

Unit 8 Going on a Journey
Passage A End of the Road
Reading Skills Reading for Main Idea
Passage B How to Be a Tourist When You Live in NYC
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun A Talking Pig

Unit 9 Shaping Proper Life Attitude
Passage A Learning to Laugh at Yourself
Reading Skills Understanding Homonym and Homophone
Passage B "If Only..."
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun Domestic Divide

Unit 10 Looking for a Job
Passage A Working for the Police
Reading Skills Understanding Transitions
Passage B Heavy Equipment Mechanic
Reading Comprehension from PRETCO
Reading for Fun What Is Two and Two?
Key to Exercises

Passage A Mr. Gillespie
When I was in seventh grade， I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town. I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer. Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors， and nobody seemed to care about his condition. I spent manydays there holding his hand and talking to him， helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine， even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma
I left for a week to vacation with my parents， and when I came back， Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didnt have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where he was， for fear that they might tell me he had died.So with many questions unanswered， I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year .Several years later， when I was a junior in high school， I was at the gas station when 1 noticed afamiliar face. When I realized who it was， my eyes filled with tears. He was alive. I got up the nerveto ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie， and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. With anuncertain look on his face， he replied yes. I explained how I knew him， and that I had spent manyhours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears， and he gave me the warmesthug.He began to tell me how， as he lay there comatose， he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the who letime. He thought it was an angel， not a person who was there with him. Mr. Gillespie firmly believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.
Then he told me about his life and what happened to him to put him in the coma. We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug， said our good-byes and went our separate ways.
Although I havent seen him since， he fills my heart with joy every day.