本书共有16单元。为了满足学生不同需要的爱好，每单元以不同的语言情景为主线，由相关语言功能、意念及情景的背景知识、基本句型、情景对话（3-4篇）、读听说练习和角色扮演组成。内容紧密结合读者生活实际、难易度适中、题材广泛、编排合理、语言功能、意念及情景融为一体。

本书主要供有较好口语基础的广大英语口语爱好者作为进一步自学的教材或作为高级阶段口语强化训练之教材。

Unit 1 Love,Marriage and Responsibility

Unit 2 Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development

Unit 3 Abilities,Jobs and Promotions

Unit 4 AIDS and Its Effect on Human Beings

Unit 5 Younger Generation—A Threat to the Value of the Older      Generation

Unit 6 Religions and Superstitious Beliefs

Unit 7 Wealth,Health and Happiness

Unit 8 Children Education

Unit 9 Law and Crime

Unit 10 Advertisements

Unit 11 East Meets West

Unit 12 Life in an Alien Environment

Unit 13 Beating Stress-Helping Yourself through the Hard Times

Unit 14 IT Industry and Our Life

Unit 15 Rural Life and Urban Life

Unit 16 Cloning-Pandora's Box

Word List

When anger is hurled at us,it hurts us.If it were a pistol,I word insist anger,like control,be checked at the door.But anger can also be a response to pain.So when your spouse responds in anger,you must terminate the argument.It's that simple:the argument must end because another person may be in pain.