本书每课共分四个部分：Part A Additional Background Information，这部分是相关的语言文化背景知识，内容丰富，选材考究，可读性强，便于加深对教材原文的理解，具有较高的参考价值；Part B Additional Notes to the Text，本部分针对课文中结构复杂、容易产生歧义的句子进行分析和注释，以帮助读者更透彻地把握原文的含义；Part C Outline Of the Article，本部分对文章的篇章结构进行综合分析，给出段落大意，使读者高屋建瓴，全文概要一目了然，更好地把握文章的中心主题；Part D Answers to the Questions，本部分针对原教材课后练习给出简洁、明确的答案，帮助读者更好地学习教材文章。

第一单元 社会群体

 Lesson 1 Good News about Racial Progress

 Lesson 2 Who Are America's Hispanics?

 Lesson 3 Women Leap Off Corporate Ladder

 Lesson 4 Boomers Won't Go Quietly

第二单元 衣食住行

 Lesson 5 Food and Obesity

 Lesson 6 The Roof That Costs Too Much

 Lesson 7 Cities and Suburbs Are Trading Places

 Lesson 8 Our Love Affair with Cars

第三单元 家庭婚姻

 Lesson 9 No One Way to Keep Love in Bloom, Experts Say

 Lesson 10 The New Mommy Track

 Lesson 11 Why Every Married Couple Should Sign a Contract

 Lesson 12 Another Thirty Years War in the Making?

第四单元 行为风尚

 Lesson 13 NYC Ban Sparks Smoking War

 Lesson 14 Take Your Planet to Work

 Lesson 15 More Businesses Cater to Canines

 Lesson 16 The Price of Beauty

第五单元 心理观念

 Lesson 17 Days of Danger and Duct Tape

 Lesson 18 Those Rugged Individuals

 Lesson 19 It's a Glad, Sad, Mad World

 Lesson 20 Abortion Wars, Once Again

第六单元 文教体育

 Lesson 21 Reining In the Test of Tests

 Lesson 22 E-Learning Today

 Lesson 23 Time to Get Moving

 Lesson 24 The NBA's Global Game Plan

第七单元 企业经济

 Lesson 25 The Success of Wal-Mart

 Lesson 26 How to Invest in Fastgrowing Companies

 Lesson 27 U.S. Workers Feel Burn of Long Hours, Less Leisure

 Lesson 28 Death of a Pushy Salesman

第八单元 社会问题

 Lesson 29 Gambling and Its Abuses Invade the Youth Culture

 Lesson 30 Business Affairs, Bedroom Affairs

 Lesson 31 In the University of Death

 Lesson 32 Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches

第九单元 科技军事

 Lesson 33 Power Revolution

 Lesson 34 Out of the Blue

 Lesson 35 Spamming the World

 Lesson 36 The Dark Side of Recruiting

第十单元 世界风云

 Lesson 37 We Need More Babies!

 Lesson 38 Tough Terrain Ahead on Road Map

 Lesson 39 Will There Be War?

 Lesson 40 Lethal Blast Hits Jakarta Hotel