本书为配合《大学英语（全新版）》的教学而编写，旨在帮助学生快速理解教材新思路，及时掌握教材内容，更好地复习、巩固课堂所学的知识，并在检验学习成果的同时，为各类标准考试做准备。
全书紧扣新教材内容，以语言点学习（Language Study）和综合练习（Integrated Exercises）为主进行全面、系统的解析和规范练习，并且给出参考答案与举例说明。另外配有期中和期末自测试题。本书充分体现了大学英语教学大纲的要求，又不同于现有的参考书和练习册，因而是一本可读性很强的读物，既可供教师教学参考，又可作学生自学迎考之用。

Unit 1 Growing Up
TextA Writing for Myself
TextB Summer Reading
Integrated Exercises
Unit 2 Friendship
Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter
Text B Never Let a Friend Down
Integrated Exercses
Unit 3 Understanding Science
Text A Public Attitudes Toward Science
Text B How to Make Sense Out of Science
Integrated Exercses
Unit 4 American Dream
Text A Tony Trivisonno's American Dream
Text B Ben Garson:Man of Miracles
Integrated Exercses
Unit 5 Romance
Text A A Valentine Story
Text B The Wallet
Integrated Exercses
Unit 6 Animal Intelligence
Text A What Animals Really Think
Text B Do Animals Fall in Love?
Integrated Exercses
Unit 7 Emergency
Text A "Kids on the Track"
Text B The Night the River Came In
Integrated Exercses
Unit 8 Coping with an Educational Problem
Self Test (Mid-term)
Self Test(Final)
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Integrated Exerciese
Appendix Ⅱ Key to Exercises of Integrated Coures
Appendix Ⅲ Key to Self test (Mid-term)
Appendix Ⅳ Chinese Translations of Texts