本教材难易适中，紧贴四六级考试和雅思考试题型，让学生在提高人文素养的同时又能提高语言技能。

本教材侧重提高学生的阅读能力，在阅读英语文章的过程中增强对英语语言的感悟、认知与应用。本教材体裁多样，涉及议论文、记叙文、说明文等；共有9个单元，内容涵盖人生观、情感、数字技术、当代女性、成功秘籍、如何平衡生活、核心价值观、友谊、健康等与大学生紧密相关的话题。在题型设计上，兼顾四、六级和雅思考试题型，帮助学生在提高阅读能力的同时，提高各种英语语言测试的应试能力。本教材既可作为学生提高自身阅读水平的教辅用书，也可作为泛读课教材使用。

Unit 1 Good Advice Is Beyond All Price
Reading Skill Previewing
Lesson 1 Harvard Commencement Address (Excerpt)
Lesson 2 Advice to Youth (Excerpt)
Lesson 3 The Graduation Advice I Never Got but Wish I Had
Lesson 4 Harvard Commencement 2007

Unit 2 Love Is the Reward of Love
Reading Skill Reading in Thought Groups
Lesson 1 What Boys Learn from Their Dads
Lesson 2 Smother Love
Lesson 3 Essential Rules of Parenting： How to Stay Sane
Lesson 4 Daughter Gone but Not Forgotten

Unit 3 Digital Technology Trend
Reading Skill Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions
Lesson 1 How Technology Is Changing Access to the College Experience
Lesson 2 Why Digital Campuses Are the Future
Lesson 3 Teaching Students in the Future of Higher Education
Lesson 4 Digital or Print? How Do You Read Books?

Unit 4 Women of the Time
Reading Skill Scanning
Lesson 1 The Phone Call That Brought Me Freedom but Broke My Mother's Heart
Lesson 2 The Reclusive Food Celebrity Li Ziqi Is My Quarantine Queen
Lesson 3 Girl Who Survived Floods by Clinging to Tree 23 Years Ago Now a Police Officer
Lesson 4 They Survived the Spanish Flu， the Depression and the Holocaust

Unit 5 There Is No Secret to Success
Reading Skill Skimming
Lesson 1 The Failures and Eventual Success of Colonel Sanders
Lesson 2 What Are the Six Important Keys to Success?
Lesson 3 Our Kids' Happiness： Less Is More
Lesson 4 What Does Success Mean to You?
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Unit 6 Striving for Balance in Life
Unit 7 The Core Values
Unit 8 A Friend Is a Second Self
Unit 9 Health Is Wealth