本套教程以阅读材料贯穿整套书，所有的阅读材料都是真实的。在阅读他人的生活经历的时候，我们一方面可以从中加以借鉴，另一方面还可以对不同的文化加以吸收。课后练习也是本书的一大特点。练习的难度由浅及深，层次分明。词汇，语法都有涉及，但重点是在提高词汇这一方面。但是不同于一般的单纯以词汇出现的图书，本书打破传统，让学生在愉快的阅读过程中学习词汇，掌握词汇。本书所有文章都配有译文，帮助学生更好的理解掌握文章。

Unit 1 Starting Out a Career

 Chapter 1 A Dentist? Oh,No!

 Chapter 2 A Cool Job

 Chapter 3 Ready for Action

 Chapter 4 Life is Full of Surprise

 Wrap-up

Unit 2 It’s All in Your Head

 Chapter 5 Food for Thought

 Chapter 6 Your Memory at Work

 Chapter 7 Sleep and the Brain

 Chapter 8 In Your Dreams

 Wrap-up

Unit 3 Communication

 Chapter 9 Who Does it Better?

 Chapter 10 When and Why We laugh

 Chapter 11 The Inventor of the Telephone

 Chapter 12 Going Online

 Wrap-up

 Vocabulary Self-Test

Unit 4 Into the World of Business

 Chapter 13 A Family Business

 Chapter 14 When the Employees Own the Company

 Chapter 15 She Finally Did it

 Chapter 16 A Language on the Move

 Wrap-up

Unit 5 Health Matters

 Chapter 17 Living to 100 and Beyond

 Chapter 18 The Placebo Effect

 Chapter 19 Tears

 Chapter 20 Bionic Men and Women

 Wrap-up

Unit 6 Exploring Technology

 Chapter 21 A History of Telling Time

 Chapter 22 Out with the Old, In with the New?

 Chapter 23 Appropriate Technologies

 Chapter 24 Technology in Science Fiction

 Wrap-up

Vocabulary Self-Test 2

Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key

Index to Target Words and Phrases

Teacher’s Manual

Chinese Version