本套教材共四册，是面向高中英语水平以上的学生而编写的强化阅读教程。本套书的词汇量起点为很基础的3000个单词，通过计算机程序筛选，以英国国家语料库很常用词汇列表的前11部分为基准，每册书增加2 000 个新词，四册书的词汇覆盖量达到11000。每册各包含十个单元，每单元由Focus on、Text A和Text B三部分组成。本书帮助学生掌握第3000~5000 的两千词汇量；Focus on板块主要聚焦构词法，加深学生对构词法规律的认知。

Unit 1 Movie
Section I Focus on Strategies for Textbook Learning—Introducing SQ3R
Section II Text A: After All the Crazy Oscar Drama Live Onstage, One Idea Endures: the Power of Empathy
Section III Text B: From Fantasy to Reality—Beauty and the Beast
Unit 2 Environment
Section I Focus on Building Word Power
Section II Text A: Modi and the Environment
Section III Text B: Why Vegetarianism Is the Best Way to Help the Environment
Unit 3 Ocean
Section I Focus on Connecting the General to the Specific in Reading and Writing
Section II Text A: The Sea Is Suffering
Section III Text B: Why Our Brains Love the Ocean
Unit 4 Universe
Section I Focus on Topics and Topic Sentences
Section II Text A: Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?
Section III Text B: To the Moon and Beyond
Unit 5 Health
Section I Focus on Fact and Opinion
Section II Text A: Could Our Own Proteins Be Used to Help Us Conquer Cancer?
Section III Text B: Drugs from the Sea
Unit 6 Nature
Section I Focus on Purpose and Tone
Section II Text A: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity
Section III Text B: No-till: How Farmers Are Saving the Soil by Parking Their Plows
Unit 7 Artifi Intelligence
Section I Focus on Supporting Details
Section II Text A: A Robot in Every Home
Section III Text B: Hands-on Computing: How Multi-touch Screens Could Change the Way We Interact with Computers and Each Other
Unit 8 History and Religion
Section I Focus on Inferences
Section II Text A: Climate and Human History
Section III Text B: Religion and Plato
Unit 9 Politics and Society
Section I Focus on Recognizing Patterns of Organization in Paragraphs
Section II Text A: Inaugural Address of Barack Obama
Section III Text B: Against Honeymoons
Unit 10 Science and Arts
Section I Focus on Reading Longer Selections
Section II Text A: "The Light of Reason" or "the Light of Ambiguity"
Section III Text B: The Power of Mozart