本书是新东方“新概念英语”之一，结合中国学生的学习习惯，采纳了课内课外相结合的“巩固+拓展+练习”的三位一体法。把辅导书的整体结构分为三块，在“积累篇”中，新东方的老师们运用了新颖的解词方法，非常便于联息和记忆，可以帮助读者巩固课本上的重点内容；“拓展篇”中的全部内容不同于原文又紧扣原文，学习者可以在巩固的前提下反复操练、举一反三，又可以拓展视野、温故知新；“测试篇”更是对综合能力的检测和提高，是实战和实用的完美结合。

Lesson 1 Finding Fossil Man

Lesson 2 Spare That Spider

Lesson 3 Matterhom Man

Lesson 4 SeeingHands

Lesson 5 Youth

Lesson 6 The Sporting Spirit

Lesson 7 Bats

Lesson 8 Trading Standards

Lesson 9 Royal Espionage

Lesson 10 Silicon Valley

Lesson 11 How to Growold

Lesson 12 Banks and Their Customers

Lesson 13 The Search for Oil

Lesson 14 TheButterflyEffect

Lesson 15 SecrecyinIndustry

Lesson 16 The Modem City

Lesson 17 A Man—Made Disease

Lesson 18 Porpoises

Lesson 19 The Stuffof Dreams

Lesson 20 Snake Poison

Lesson 21 Williams S．Hart and the Early“Western”Film

Lesson 22 Knowledge andProgress

Lesson 23 Bird Flight

Lesson 24 Beauty

Lesson 25 Non—auditoryEffects of Noise-

Lesson 26 The Past Life ofthe Earth

Lesson 27 The“Vasa”

Lesson 28 Patients andDoctors

Lesson 29 The Hovercraft 

Lesson 30 Exploringthe Sea—floor

Lesson 31 The Sculptor Speaks

Lesson 32 Galileo Reborn．

Lesson 33 Education

Lesson 34 Adolescence．

Lesson 35 Space Odyssey

Lesson 36 The Cost ofGovernment

Lesson 37 The Process ofAgeing

Lesson 38 Waterandthe Traveler 

Lesson 39 What Every Writer Wants

Lesson 40 Waves 

Lesson 41 Training Elephants

Lesson 42 Recording An Earthquake

Lesson 43 Are There Strangers in Space?

Lesson 44 Patterns ofCulture

Lesson 45 0f Man and Galaxies

Lesson 46 Hobbies

Lesson 47 The Great Escape

Lesson 48 Planning A Share Portfolio