本书是一部关于护理英语的高校教材，全书分为十五个介绍单元，它旨在培养提供扩大接触英语的机会，为学生进一步打开使用英语的窗户。大量的阅读材料使学生不仅熟悉语言，更了解各种知识和国外情况。

Unit One Growing Pains

Passage 1 The Fish I Didn’t Catch

PaSsage 2 The Song of Birds

Passage 3 The Wonderful Eye

Unit Two Study Actively and Effectively

Passage 1 How to Study

Passage 2 Seeing by Touching

Passage 3 Learn to Do Some Exercises

Unit Three Let’s Go Swimming

Passage 1 Swimming

Passage 2 The Girl Who Swam the Channel 

Passage 3 Sports Physicals

Unit Four Looking Nice and Proper

Passage 1 Why Do We Wear Clothes?

Passage 2 What Clothes Should We Wear?

Passage 3 A Few Essential Health Tips。

Unit Five Culture and Customs

Passage 1 American Customs

Passage 2.American Culture 

Passage 3 When It’s Just You in an Emergency

Unit Six Clever and Lovable Animals 

Passage 1 Do Animals Have Intelligence? 

Passage 2 Kenny the Koala

Passage 3 About Dreams

Unit Seven Mind Your Hands and Feet

Passage 1 Start Off on the Right Foot

Passage 2 Avoiding Germs

Passage 3 Laughter Is the Cure

Unit Eight Insect and Worm

Passage 1 Earth’S Wiggly Wonder

Passage 2 The Female Mosquito

Passage 3 How Much Rest Is Enough? 

Unit Nine Teen Life

Passage 1 Being Overweight and Living With It!

Passage 2 Sweet Olsen Twins 

Passage 3 WhY Does Hair Turn Gray? 

Unit Ten Trips and Journeys

Passage 1 My Holidays to Sydney

Passage 2 A Trip to Toronto

Passage 3 Energy CycleJ

Unit Eleven Social Communication

Passage l British People and American People

Passage 2 Don’t Waste Precious Time

Passage 3 Your Body Knows Best 

Unit Twelve Famous People

Passage 1 Florence Nightingale(1)

Passage 2 Florence Nightingale(2)

Passage 3 Become a Habitual Tea Drinker

Unit Thirteen Machines That Make Life Comfortable

Passage 1 Air Conditioning

Passage 2 The Cars of the Future

Passage 3 Health Tip.Playground Safety

Unit Fourteen Historical Events

Passage 1 A Race to the Pole

Passage 2 Christopher Columbus

Passage 3 Sleep Disorder

Unit Fifteen Human and Nature

Passage 1 The Salt of the Earth

Passage 2 Human and Environment

Passage 3 What Is Depression?

Appendix Key to Exercises