本书共16个单元，其中第七单元和第十四单元为测试单元，便于教师考查学生的学习成效，系统检查知识积累情况。其余14个单元每单元由A、B两个选篇组成，体裁和题材多样化，选篇经典，练习丰富，涵盖词汇、语法翻译、口语、写作等全方面语言训练，同时兼顾人文素养的培养，可供高等院校英语类专业二年级上学期使用。

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pronunciation Table
Unit 1
Text A Your College Years
Text B Predictable Crises of Early Adulthood
Unit 2
Text A How Reading Changed My Life
Text B How Books Helped Shape My Life
Unit 3
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
Unit 4
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrasts
Unit 5
Text A Silent Spring
Text B The ABCs of Global Warming
Unit 6
Text A How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem？
Text B They Dared Cocaine-—and Lost
Unit 7
Inter-Lesson （I）
Unit 8
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Unit 9
Text A Globalization's Dual Power
Text B The International Language of Gestures
Unit 10
Text A The End of the Civil War
Text B Mercy at Appomattox
Unit 11
Text A Why Historians Disagree
Text B The Third Man
Unit 12
Text A The Most Dangerous Game
Text B The Big Buffalo Bass
Unit 13
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All
Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Unit 14
Inter-Lesson （Ⅱ）
Unit 15
Text A A Drink in the Passage
Text B The Bench
Unit 16
Text A Twelve Angry Men
Text B Harry Hoffman
Glossary
Language Items
Word-formation Rules Summarized