《大學英語實用教程（3）》為21世紀高等學校規劃教材。《大學英語實用教程》共分四冊，每冊都以對話、課文及語法三部分形式表現，內容新穎實用、條理清晰、通俗易懂、針對性強。《大學英語實用教程（3）》為第三冊，重點為復合句的講練。裡采用一個主題，分別用對話和課文的形式來培養學生的聽、說、讀、寫、譯全方位的實際表達技能。在語法部分中，以非英語專業學位考試大綱要求為主線，更加注重實用性和針對性之間既相互獨立又互相呼應中的對話、課文、語法都配有相應的習題及參考答案。《大學英語實用教程（3）》可作為高等院校非英語專業教材，也可作為高職高專院校及遠程教育、業大、函授等學生的基礎英語課教材，並可作為成人非英語專業學位考試的參考用書。

Unit 1 Love and Friendship
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： Friendship
Paragraph Reading B： Friendship
Grammar Focus： 情態動詞（一）

Unit 2 Customs and Habits
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： Beliefs and Interests
Paragraph Reading B： Gender Tax
Grammar Focus： 情態動詞（二）

Unit 3 Human and the Earth
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Meaning of the 21st Century
Paragraph Reading B： Imagine Earth without People
Grammar Focus： 主謂一致（一）

Unit 4 Youth and Dreams
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Autumn the Harvest Season
Paragraph Reading B： The Two Roads
Grammar Focus： 主謂一致（二）

Unit 5 Festivals and Holidays
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Thanks We Give
Paragraph Reading B： The Origins of the April Fools Day
Grammar Focus： 虛擬語氣

Unit 6 Language and Culture
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： Proverbs
Paragraph Reading B： What Is the Worth of Words?
Grammar Focus： 名詞性從句

Unit 7 Time and Money
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Value of Time
Paragraph Reading B： Your Money Is Your Life
Grammar Focus： 定語從句（一）

Unit 8 How to Learn
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Special Joy of Super-slow Reading
Paragraph Reading B： Feed Your Mind
Grammar Focus： 定語從句（二）

Unit 9 Weather and Climate
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Weather in Britain
Paragraph Reading B： Weather
Grammar Focus： 狀語從句（一）

Unit.10 Education
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： In Amys Eyes
Paragraph Reading B： Culture and Arts
Grammar Focus： 狀語從句（二）

Unit 11 Traffic and Transmission
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Breakdown Assistance
Paragraph Reading B：A Letter
Grammar Focus： 交際用語和習慣表達（一）

Unit 12 Environment and Conservation
Communicative Samples
Paragraph Reading A： The Air Pollutant
Paragraph Reading B： Greenspace
Grammar Focus： 交際用語和習慣表達（二）
Glossary
Model Test 1
Model Test 2
Answer Keys

Human kind has been able to thrive for thousands of years because nature provided it withresources like topsoil， underground water， fish in the oceans， minerals， oil and wetlands， butthese resources are finite， like cookies in a jar. We are using up many of these resources， andsome dont have substitutes.
Water is vital for our survival and for producing food. It takes about a thousand tons ofwater to produce one ton of grain that， fed to cows， produces only 18 pounds of meat. Todaymankind is using about 160 billion tons more water each year than is being replenished by rainand fed back into water storages. If this water were carried in water trucks， it would require a300，000-mile-long convoy of trucks every day——a convoy length 37 times the diameter of theEarth. This is how much water we are using and not replenishing.
During the lifetime of todays teenagers， fresh water will run out in many parts of theworld， making food production difficult. Many fish species will be too depleted to replenishthemselves. Global warming will bring hurricanes far more severe than Katrina and will causenatural climate control mechanisms to go wrong. Rising temperatures will lower crop yields inmany of the worlds poorest countries， such as those in central Africa.
The interconnected set of problems has an interconnected set of solutions. If we humansimplement these solutions， we can gradually achieve sustainable development and asustainable but affluent life. Working toward sustainability requires many different types ofactions in different subject areas. In light of rapidly advancing technology， however，sustainability alone is not enough. We need to be concerned with survivability. There must be amove from the untenable course we are on today toward a world where we learn to control thediverse forces we are unleashing.

本書是2l世紀高等學校規劃教材，內容新穎實用、條理清晰、通俗易懂、針對性強。
《大學英語實用教程》共分四冊。每冊主要由對話、課文及語法三部分組成。對話部分以提供的主題示例訓練學生實際交流及表達的能力；課文部分側重對語言點和語篇整體的理解，為非英語專業的學生在學位考試中的閱讀部分打下堅實的基礎；語法部分中，結合學生英語基礎知識和基本能力的實際，針對非英語專業學位考試大綱的要求，有的放矢。在內容上全面覆蓋考點，重點突出，繫統性強；在形式上，題型新穎，有利於學生能力的訓練和培養；在編排上，注意由易到難的階梯性、針對性和適用性。
本套教材的緊密配合，又不重內的內容又相對獨立，可根據學生的實際情況調整側重點：並且，中的對話、課文、語法三部分都配有相應的練習。
本書為《大學英語實用教程（3）》，作者為北京科技大學等高校的一線英語教師，他們具有豐富的教學與實踐經驗，以確保本套教材教學的可操作性、針對性及實用性。
本書由張翠玲主編，徐莉芳、劉新華、陳妍茹副主編，華北科技學院的楊玉楓、楊慧也參加了編寫工作。