本书为《英语综合教程》系列教材之一，本套教材为基础英语课程教材，共四册，可供高等院校英语专业一、二年级学生使用。本册为第二册，适用于一年级第二学期。

本册共15个单元，选材以扩大学生知识面、培养学生的综合素质为主要原则，内容涉及童话、爱情、友谊、幸福、教育、社会问题、网络、名人传记、理想、科技、经济、体育等15个主题。每单元包括八个主要部分。

Unit 1 Fairy Tale

 Text A Beauty and the Beast

 Text B Beauty and the Beast

Unit 2 Love

 Text A The Power of Love

 Text B The Love I 11 Never Forget

Unit 3 Money and Happiness

 Text A The Real Truth about Money

 Text B Happiness

Unit 4 Education

 Text A National Wealth Tax to Ftmd Education？

 Text B Are Single-Sex Classrooms Legal？

Unit 5 Social Issues

 Text A The Scope of the Teen Pregnancy Problem

 Text B Is Abortion Murder？

Unit 6 Cyberspace

 Text A Vulnerability of the Internet and World Wide Web

 Text B Internet Evolution: Cyber Youth Culture in China

Unit 7 Biography

 Text A Earnest Hemingway

 Text B Joseph Heller

Unit 8 Reflections on Life

 Text A Think Inside the Square to Keep Those Love Fires Burning

 Text B Learn How to Face Difficulty

Unit 9 Ambition

 Text A Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed

 Text B The Roots of My Ambition

Unit 10 China

 Text A China: Past and Prensent

 Text B Cultural Healing

Unit 11 Friendship

 Text A The Value of Friendship

 Text B All Un-Alone in the City

Unit 12 Honesty

 Text A Honesty Is the Best Policy

 Text B To Lie or Not to Lie？

Unit 13 Sports

 Text A A Change Will Do Them Good

 Text B Cheerleading

Unit 14 Science

 Text A Can We Know the Universe-Reflections oil a Grain of Salt

 Text B Future Tech

Unit 15 Economy

 Text A Terry Semel's Long Pause；Yahoo

 Text B Feeling Fitter？ The Euro Area's Economy