本系列是“大学英语创意阅读”的修订版，新版大幅更新选文，更加突出跨文化的特色，对练习加以精简，并配置与四级考试阅读题型相同的练习。在跨文化的语境中，用长篇阅读的形式，更好地培养学生的英语阅读能力，满足教学和实际的需求。本次再版将该套书整合纳入“大学跨文化英语阅读教程”。
本书为其中一册。

Unit 1 Voice-Over Artists: Voices in Your Head
Unit 2 Romeo and Juliet
Unit 3 A World-Class University: Cambridge University
Unit 4 Applying for a Job:Job Application Across Cultures
Unit 5 Vienna: City of Music
Unit 6 Inventions: "Modern Inventions"
Unit 7 Studying the Supernatural: The Science of the Supernatural
Unit 8 Intercultural Marriages: East and West - Sometimes the Two Do Meet
Unit 9 Distance Education: The Australian Example
Unit 10 The Banking Crisis: What Went Wrong?
Unit 11 Classic Stories: The Story of Sheherezade
Unit 12 Active Listening: A Counsellor's Approach
Unit 13 Respect: To Ask or Not to Ask, That Is the Question
Unit 14 The History of McDonald's: The Rise of the Burger
Unit 15 The First Australians
Unit 16 India - The British Legacy: Travels with My Grandfather
Appendix I 课文参考译文
Appendix II Glossary