本书为《新时代大学学术英语阅读教程》下册，共8个单元，选材涵盖了自然科学和人文社科的重要话题，充分考虑学生的专业学习需求。每单元包含两篇学术文章，并根据文章介绍并分析学术英语阅读技能，配以不同形式的阅读练习和翻译练习，以检测学生的阅读成效。

Unit 1 Higher Education
Reading 1: Long-Term Thinking about Technology and Education
Academic Reading Skill: Scanning, search reading and careful reading
Reading 2: Let's Engineer a Better Education
Academic Reading Skill: Identifying word class
Unit 2 Social Networks
Reading 1: Are Social Networking Sites Controlling Your Mind?
Academic Reading Skill: Skimming to get guidance to understand jargon
Reading 2: Social Networking: Is Generation Smartphone Really More Prone to Unhappiness?
Academic Reading Skill: Building up familiarity with challenging texts
Unit 3 Medical Care
Reading 1: When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
Academic Reading Skill: Identifying fact, theory or opinion
Reading 2: Surgery Near End of Life Is Common and Costly
Academic Reading Skill: SQ3R reading method
Unit 4 Gender Equality
Reading 1: The Creativity Bias against Women
Academic Reading Skill: Paragraph deconstruction
Reading 2: "Elderly Woman" Is Not a Synonym for "Clueless Person"
Academic Reading Skill: Identifying various relationships in the reasoning
Unit 5 Artificial Intelligence
Reading 1: Bots in Our Homes
Academic Reading Skill: Summarizing
Reading 2: Why Henry Kissinger -- or Anyone Else -- Shouldn't Fear AI
Academic Reading Skill: Making connections
Unit 6 Communication
Reading 1: Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Money?
Academic Reading Skill: Identifying the functions of different titles
Reading 2: Stephen Hawking as Accidental Ambassador for Assistive Technologies
Academic Reading Skill: Making inferences
Unit 7 Forces of Nature
Reading 1: Visiting a National Park This Summer? Hold Your Breath
Academic Reading Skill: Effective steps for note-taking
Reading 2: Climate Change Is Killing These Ancient Trees
Academic Reading Skill: Critical reading
Unit 8 Behavioral Science
Reading 1: Why Too Much Experience Can Backfire
Academic Reading Skill: Critical thinking as an extension of critical reading
Reading 2: Who Speaks Up in the Face of Uncivil Behavior?
Academic Reading Skill: Critical thinking process
Appendix I Key to Exercises
Appendix II Glossary