《综合教程》高级阶段是《综合教程》基础阶段的延续，也分四册，本册为第五册，供英语专业三年级第一学期使用。

第五册共有16个单元，每个单元由Text I、Text II和相关的练习构成。建议使用本书的教师在一周的时间内完成一个单元的教学任务。

本册课文内容广泛，涉及种族问题、文化差异、名人逸事、网络技术、语言、教育、社会问题等；体裁多样，有叙述、记述、论说、演说等。本书旨在让学生学习英语的同时，拓展视野，陶冶情操，提高素养。

TEXT I The Fourth of July

TEXT Ⅱ Champion of the World

TEXT 1 The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl

TEXT Ⅱ No Name Woman

TEXT I A Hanging

TEXT Ⅱ Shooting an Elephant

TEXT I The Girl in the Fifth Row

TEXT Ⅱ Bumping into Mr. Ravioli

TEXT I Force of Nature

TEXT Ⅱ Her World on a String

TEXT I Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

TEXT Ⅱ I Have a Dream

TEXT I How America Lives

TEXT Ⅱ On the Pressures and Politics of Waiting in Line

TEXT I The Art of Smart Guessing

TEXT Ⅱ Education

TEXT I Pigskin English

TEXT Ⅱ Black English

TEXT I Lore and Resentment

TEXT Ⅱ Gay

TEXT I Kids and Computers: Digital Danger

TEXT Ⅱ The World of E-Books Is Here

TEXT I The New Immorality

TEXT Ⅱ Growing Old

TEXT I Beauty

TEXT Ⅱ A Grateful Wife Has Second Thoughts

TEXT I Our Lingua Franca

TEXT Ⅱ English and American Sportsmanship

TEXT I Clothes Make the Man -- Uneasy

TEXT Ⅱ The Feminine Physique

TEXT I The Battle of the Ants

TEXT Ⅱ The Alligators of East Florida