本书每册由15个单元组成,每个单元分课文A,B,C。课文选自当代英、美报纸和书刊。我们力求使课文题材、体裁多样,内容具有知识性和趣味性,语言地道,形式新颖。课文A是一些日常生活中常见的不同体裁的原文,着重强化训练各种阅读技能,课文B在选材和练习设计中继承了传统精读课本中的一些好作法,更着重于语言在交际过程中的使用和提高学生分析问题和解决问题的能力,以及利用上下文和头脑中固有的知识对词意和读物的含意进行推断的能力。语言练习包括对课文中出现的构成中国学生英语学习难点的项目进行强化训练。课文C在选材上难度较大。课文C着重培养学生抓大意及对读物整体的理解能力。

TEXT A
Unit 1 Notes
Unit 2 Notices
Unit 3 Using an English English Dictionary
Unit 4 Reading for specific Information
Unit 5 Travel Brochure:An Itinerary
Unit 6 Discovering the Main Ideas
Unit 7 Informal Letters
Unit 8 Careful Reading
Unit 9 Instructions
Unit 10 Recognizing and Interpreting Cohesive Devices
Unit 11 Discovering the Author's Purpose
Unit 12 Weather Forecasts
Unit 13 Advertisements
Unit 14 Entertainment
Unit 15 Inferencing
TEXT B
Unit 1 "Stop the world,I Want to get off."
Unit 2 The Fight to Save the Whales
Unit 3 How to Study
Unit 4 Mugging
Unit 5 Going Home
Unit 6 A Nincompoop
Unit 7 A Day's Wait
Unit 8 The Door Swings Open
Unit 9 Alexander Graham Bell
Unit 10 Salvation
Unit 11 My Most Important Day
Unit 12 A Sad Story
Unit 13 The Language of Social Occasions
Unit 14 Plan of Attck
Unit 15 The Melting Pot
Vocabulary List
TEXT C
Unit 1 Wind Power
Unit 2 Mr.Hobbs' House
Unit 3 The Tourist's Taravura
Unit 4 Excuse Me,Please
Unit 5 Letters to the Editor
Unit 6 Modern Examinations
Unit 7 Dancercise:Fitness throught Dance
Unit 8 I don't Want to Be a Scientist,Daddy!
Unit 9 An Excerpt from A Gun for sale
Unit 10 Malcolm X Learns to Read
Unit 11 Never Trust Appearances
Unit 12 Ecology
Unit 13 Pity for a Stranger
Unit 14 Language Varieties
Unit 15 After Twenty Years