内容新颖，讲解详实，练习丰富。不仅注重激发学生学习兴趣，培养学生外语技能，更加注重学生综合人文素养的提升和积极人生观与价值观的培养，在潜移默化中启迪思想、陶冶情操。

本套教材除只要针对三本类院校和少数二本类院校的非英语专业基础比较薄弱的学生，本着“低端定位、高端品质”的理念，整套教材遵循唯实性、简约性、实用性和教育性的编写原则，集专项知识和技能训练于一天，每册针对语法、阅读、翻译和写作各有侧重。每一册包含八个单元和两套自测题，一二册和三四册编写体例上有一定的差异，体现逐渐进阶的特点。

Unit One College Life
Text A What to Expect from College Life
Text B College Talk
Grammar in Focus Tenses
Unit Two Love and Friendship
Text A Unconditional Love
Text B Three Steps Towards Friendship
Grammar in Focus The Passive Voice
Unit Three Sports and Sportsmanship
Text A She Was Not Born to Walk
Text B My Olympic Story
Grammar in Focus Modal Verbs
Unit Four Music and Life
Text A Music Thief
Text B A Violin with Three Strings
Grammar in Focus Non-finite Verbs
Test One
Unit Five Art and Architecture
Text A An Impossible Bridge
Text B Art Everywhere
Grammar in Focus Comparative Degree
Unit Six Moral Values
Text A Characteristics of a Gentleman
Text B Do Americans Have Any Morels
Grammar in Focus Conjunctions and Clauses
Unit Seven Culture and Customs
Text A American Customs and Etiquette
Text B Chinese Business Culture and Etiquette
Grammar in Focus Reference and Concord
Unit Eight Competition and Partnership
Text A Competition: I Love You
Text B To Create Partnership Is Important
Grammar in Focus The Subjunctive Mood
Test Two
Vocabulary