本教材是参照全国硕士生英语教学大纲对非英语专业硕士研究生的英语要求编写成的。全书由10个单元组成。第1～9单元各包括两篇课文，其中Text A要求精学，编写了导读、课前思考题、生词、短语、注释和练习，练习又涉及课文理解、词汇、语法结构、完型填空、翻译、写作等内容和形式。Text B只需读懂大概内容，回答几个关键问题即可。每个单元都有阅读技巧和写作技巧方面的指导。第10单元只有一篇课文，篇幅较大，练习形式也是综合性的。本书内容新颖，题材广泛，信息性强。

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前言

Unit 1 Law and Peace

Text A Work for Peace Gives Widow Courage

Exercises

Reading Skills Connectives

Writing Skills Notes

Text B Justice System Fails Kids

Key to Exercises

Unit 2 Mothers and Children

Text A She's Leaving Home

Exercises

Reading Skills Scanning

Writing Skills Letter Writing

Text B Terrain of a Mother's Heart

Key to Exercises

Unit 3 Information Technology

Text A Inventing the Future

Exercises

Reading Skills Organization

Writing Skills Paragraph Writing

Text B Personal Computers: The Next 20 Years

Key to Exercises

Unit 4 Too Many People

Text A Jam Tomorrow?

Exercises

Reading Skills Skimming

Writing Skills How to Write an Outline

Text B American Upsizing ~

Key to Exercises

Unit 5 Ethics and Morality

Text A The Right Thing

Exercises :

Reading Skills Using Context Clues for Word Meanings

Writing Skimls Summaries and Abstracts

Text B The Moral Life of Digital Kids

Key to Exercises

Unit 6 E-life and E-business

Text A The Dawn of E-life

Exercises

Reading Skills Complex Structures

Writing Skills Structured Writing

Text B Managing in an E-business World

Key to Exercises

Unit 7 Life and Age

Text A Retirement Cash: Will You Have Enough

Exercises

Reading Skills Referents

Writing Skills Exposition

Text B Cheek Your Life Insurance

Key to Exercises

Unit 8 Our Environment

Text A Environmental Science

Exercises

Reading Skills Thesis

Writing Skills Writing Short Essays

Text B Human Impact

Key to Exercises

Unit 9 Family Life

Text A First Family Gives Parenting Advice

Exercises

Reading Skills Distinguishing Fact from Opinion

Writing Skills Lab Report

Texu B How Honest Are Couples?

Key to Exercises

Unit 10 Food and Agriculture

Text Grassroots Innovator

Exercises

Writing Skills 1 Tables and Figures

Writing Skills 2 Research Paper

Key to Exercises

Glossary 

Bibliography