《新时代核心英语教程(综合英语2)》通过对接《指南》规定的“综合英语”核心课程的教学要求，培养学生综合运用英语语言知识和技能进行语言交际的能力，在语言学习的过程中提高其人文素养，培养其跨文化能力、思辨能力和学习能力。教材顺应新时代对英语类专业人才的需求，紧扣《普通高等学校本科专业类教学质量国家标准（外国语言文学类）》和《普通高等学校本科外国语言文学类专业教学指南》对本科英语类专业核心课程的培养要求，致力于培养语言基本功扎实、人文素养深厚、国际视野广阔、跨文化交流能力强的英语类专业人才，适用于英语、翻译、商务英语等三个本科英语类专业基础阶段的核心课程教学。

Unit 1 The Pleasure of Reading
Text A Reading
Text B Books and You
Unit 2 Gender Gap
Text A Nobody Wins in the Age-Old Debate
over High Heels
Text B Troubles Talk: Don't Tell Me What to Do
Unit 3 Life in the City
Text A What We Gain or Lose in Cities
Text B The Brown Wasps
Unit 4 Character and Personality
Text A The Monster
Text B The Upside of Being an Introvert and
Why Extroverts Are Overrated
Unit 5 Food for Thought
Text A The Guide to Being a Foodie Without
Being Culturally Appropriative
Text B A Memory Shared, a Memory Made
Unit 6 All Hail to the Hero
Text A Superman and Me
Text B From Joan of Arc to Little Women, a
History of Heroes
Unit 7 You Are What You Speak
Text A On Falling in Love with the Language
I've Spoken My Entire Life
Text B Hunger of Memory
Unit 8 The Art of Travel
Text A Stop Telling Me to Travel like a Local,
Okay?
Text B The Ugly Tourist
Unit 9 Things to Treasure
Text A The Death of the Moth
Text B Once More to the Lake
Unit 10 Lessons Learned from Nature
Text A Two Ways of Seeing a River
Text B Animals Are Basically Millennials?