本书为普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材，力求体现《课程要求》的原则和精神，在编写宗旨、单元设计、材料选择、课堂活动和课堂练习的设计上力图忠实地诠释《课程要求》的各项指标。本系列教材为综合英语类的必修课程教材。

Unit 1 Teaching and Learning

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 Excuses

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus ——Text B

 To Know More about Less or Less about More

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 2 Helping People in Need

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 On Her Own, But Not Alone

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus- Text B

 Roadside Inferno

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 3 Friendship

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 Friendship

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus——Text B

 How to Build Better Friendships

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 4 Famous People

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 In Search of the Real Bill Gates

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus——Text B

 Florence Nightingale: Nurse, Renewer of Society

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 5 Hobbies

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 Get into a Hobby, It's Good for You!

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus- Text B

 Cultivating a Hobby

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 6 Success

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 Dare to Take Risks!

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus- Text B

 A Success Story That's Hard to Duplicate

 intranet Assignments

Unit 7 Honesty

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 White Lies, Hard Truths

 integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus——Text B

 The Most Honest Man I Ever Knew (My Stepfather)

 Intranet Assignments

Unit 8 Environmental Protection

 Teaching Objectives

 Lead-in

 Reading Focus——Text A

 The Contamination of the Environment

 Integrated Exercises

 Reading Focus- Text B

 The Balance of Nature

 Intranet Assignments