本书共有十个单元,每单元包括两篇课文。
本书强调语言基本功的训练和语言实用能力的培养,因此在每单元的**篇课文后均配有大量练习,其中包括回答问题(Comprehension Questions)、话题讨论(Topics for Discussion)、词汇(Vocabulary)、短文填空(Cloze)、翻译(Translation)和写作(Writing)。
每一单元中还有一项是体现本书特色的写作技能(Writing Skills)。这一部分介绍了常用文体的写作技能并配有范文,要求学生在课后进行写作训练,以便进一步提高运用英语的实际能力。每一单元中还增设了补充材料(AdditionalWork)和谚语(Proverbs)。补充材料包括三个部分:习语学习、词汇补充和阅读欣赏。习语和词汇练习与课文无关,主要供语言基础较好或希望参加国际英语考试的学生使用。阅读欣赏主要介绍一些英语习语的来源和文学价值较高的散文、诗歌等,以提高学生的文学修养,谚语通常与课文内容有关,旨在加深学生的文化底蕴。

Unit One
Text HoW to Talk about the World
Further Reading You Are What You Say
Writing SkillS EssayWritlng:Overall Introduction
Unit Two
Text Is Love an Art?
Further Reading Courtship through the Ages
Writing Skills Essay Writing:Argumentative
Unit Three
Text Cheating Alive and Flourishing
Further Reading Let's Put the Heat on Campus
Writing Skills Functional Wring:Application Letters
Unit Four
Txte The Gift of Gift-Giving
Further Reading How to Be Generous
Writing Skills Functional Writing:Resumes(Resumes)
Unit Five
Text Science and Humanity in the Twenty-First Century
Further Reading Science Doesn’t kill People...People Kill People
Writing SkillS Functional Writing:Business Letters
Unit Six
Text The Art of Pleasing— A Letter to Son
Further Reading Why I Afraid of You?——A Letter to Father
Writing Skills Practical Writing: Summaries
Unit Seven
Text One Vote for This Age of Anxiety
Further Reading Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable
Writlllg Skills Practical Writing:BOOk Reports and Book Reviews
Unit Eight
Text Personal Stability Zones
Further Reading The Personality of the Future
Writing Skills Academic Writing: Constructing a Research Paper(1)
Unit Nine
Text The Money Game
Further Reading There Has Always Been Olympic Mischief
Writing Skills Academic Wrting:Constructing a Research Paper(2)
Unit Ten
Text Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday
Further Reading The View From 8O
Writing SkillS Academic Writing: Abstracts