《致用英语》是供高职高专英语专业学生使用的系列教材,包括《综合教程》、《口语教程》、《听力教程》,《阅读教程》,《写作教程》、《语法教程》、《英语**概况》和《英语报刊阅读》。本系列教材根据高职高专英语专业的教学现状和改革方向,由国内英语教育专家和高职高专英语教学一线的教师联合编写,旨在以全新的理念、实用的内容,着重培养学生的综合职业素质,提高学生的英语应用能力。
《致用英语综合教程》是此系列教材的核心教程,共四级,每级包括学生用书和教师用书。本教程内容丰富生动、设计新颖灵活,具有以下特色:
每单元由话题展开、阅读、语言运用、项目、拓展、文化点滴、学习策略七个板块组成。形成一个完整的语言学习过程。
采用以任务为主的活动设计思路,通过操作性强的语言实践活动,全方位地提高学生的语言应用能力。
设计“文化点滴”和“学习策略”两个板块,注重提高学生的跨文化交际意识,培养学生的自主学习能力。

Unit 1 College Education
Passage A The Value of a College Education
Passage B Another Education in University
Reading Skills Skimming
Supplementary Reading Universities and Their Function
Unit 2 Happiness
Passage A Happiness Index
Passage B Who Are the Happiest People?
Reading Skills Scanning
Supplementary Reading Black Beauty (Excerpt)
Unit 3 Sources of Beauty
Passage A Is This Seat Taken?
Passage B Reach for the Light
Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Context
Supplementary Reading The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpt)
Unit 4 Build up Blogs
Passage A Tips on Writing Content for Your Blog
Passage B Comments? Comments... Comments!
Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Word-building
Supplementary Reading Ten Things I've Learned about Blogging
Unit 5 Kids and Family
Passage A The Ring
Passage B Driving Lesson
Reading Skills Recognizing Words That Connect Ideas
Supplementary Reading King Grisly-Beard (Excerpt)
Comprehensive Practice I
Unit 6 Touch of Life
Passage A Everyday Is a Gift
Passage B Letting Go of Yesterday
Reading Skills Getting Ideas Sorted out by Critical Thinking
Supplementary Reading Detour to Romance
Unit 7 Friendship
Passage A In Praise of Best Friends
Passage B A Friend Is
Reading Skills Searching for the Main Idea
Supplementary Reading Encounters with Manners (Excerpt)
Unit 8 Biography
Passage A Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs (Excerpt)
Passage B Bill Gates in His Boyhood
Reading Skills Understanding References and Making Inferences
Supplementary Reading The Master of Investment: Warren Buffett
Unit 9 Sports
Passage A Coming a Long Way, in More Ways than One
Passage B The Football Game
Reading Skills Recognizing Patterns
Supplementary Reading Around the World in Eighty Days (Excerpt)
Unit 10 Health
Passage A A Simple Guide to Eating out Without Putting on Weight
Passage B Vitamin Supplements--A Pill Is Not Always the Answer
Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions
Supplementary Reading Caught in the Web of the Internet
Comprehensive Practice II
Key to Exercises

本教材是供高职高专英语专业各个方向的学生使用的阅读教材。共有上下两册,每册18个单元。本书为其中的上册。在选材上该书注重阅读材料的趣味性、知识性,练习丰富,每单元设计了阅读技能讲解及练习,有助于扩大学生词汇量和知识面,提高阅读技能。