本书共分两册,每册包括十六个单元,每单元包括四篇课文,每篇课文后面都编有练习,并附有练习答案和词汇表。这是本书的第二册,适用于大学非英语专业二年级学生阅读。
本书的最大特点是取材新老兼顾,题材多样,知识性强,语言地道,兼顾趣味性和广泛性。置身其中,你既可以领略光怪陆离的尼斯湖的神秘,又可以追溯风靡一时的“博克”的来源;既可以学习名人的成功之道,又可以了解各国有关数字的迷信……
本书的另一特点是练习的针对性强且全面合理。每课的练习都分为两大部分。第一部分为理解练习(Comprehension Exercise),其中包括根据短文回答问题、英译汉(文中的关键句和难句)、汉译英(练习文中出现的重点词汇或短语)等三种形式。第二部分为词汇练习(Vocabulary Exercises,其中包括易混词、多义词以及构词法练习。
Unit One
1. Music Has Power / 1
2. Learning from Failure / 8
3. Israel: Holidays, Festivals and Traditions / 15
4. My Passion / 22
Unit Two
5. Is Packing Important to You? / 30
6. What Do Children Need? / 36
7. Seven Secrets to A Great Life / 43
8. Friendship / 50
Unit Three
9. Tell Mommy I Love Her / 58
10. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed,Something Blue ! / 65
11. Rat's Brain Waves: A Hope to Trapped People / 72
12. The Hope of Missing Children / 79
Unit Four
13. Pressure Benefits Study / 87
14. If Only You'd Listen to Your Own Intuition / 94
15. Aspects of English Life: Getting Acquainted / 102
16. Breakthroughs for Future Household Products by 2007 / 109
Unit Five
17. Suburbanization / 117
18. Learn to "Think" / 125
19. Social Sciences as "Soft" / 132
20. Painting A House / 139
Unit Six
21. In A Bookstore / 146
22. Modem American Universities / 153
23. InferentialStatistics / 160
24. Artificiallntelligence / 167
Unit Seven
25. Environment and Community / 174
26. Memory / 181
27. Juvenile Delinquency / 187
28. Monetary Value of Education / 195
Unit Eight
29. How to Reintegrate Released Criminals into the Society? / 202
30. Super Slow Training / 209
31. Cat's Ability to Survive Falls / 216
32. Boys Have More Crises than Girls / 222
33. Drivers on Cellphones are Prone to More Crashes than Drunk Drivers? / 229
34. The Fight for Survival / 237
35. Information Superhighway / 244
36. Christmas / 251
Unit Ten
37. Parties in Australia / 258
38. The Risks of Cigarette Smoke / 265
39. Mother's Love Saved Daughter / 273
40. Seeking Higher Qualifications / 280
Unit Eleven
41. How I Made My Dreams Come True / 288
42. Carly Fiorina's Road to Success / 295
43. How to Win Respect / 302
44. Is Test-tube Baby Risky? / 309
Unit Twelve
45. An Optimistic Attitude / 316
46. That's Life / 323
47. Downloads Will Replace Discs / 330
48. Gender Detector / 337
Unit Thirteen
49. Strict Parents and Overweight Children / 344
50. Climate vs DNA / 352
51. Endangered Indian River Dolphin / 360
52. Tigers under the Siege / 367
Unit Fourteen
53. Measles / 374
54. The Trusts inU. S.A. / 381
55. Film Rating System / 389
56. Cloned Pigs, the New Source of Fatty Acids / 396
Unit Fifteen
57. Why Do We Sleep? ( I ) / 402
58. Why Do We Sleep? ( II ) / 408
59. Youth of Today: No Savings, No Pension,Huge Debts (I) / 416
60. Youth of Today: No Savings, No Pension, Huge Debts (11) / 423
Unit Sixteen
61. A Doctor's Duty / 430
62. From Rubble to Revival / 439
63. Marriage: Addition or Division? / 446
64. Should Parents Become Big Brothers? / 454