本书符合《大学英语课程教学要求》对大学英语教学提出的新要求，使大学生在今后学习、工作和社会交往中能用英语有效地进行交际，将专业知识融入真实的职场情景中，注重训练全面的听、说、读、写技能，培养大学生的职场英语交际能力，有别于仅注重阅读和专业词汇的传统专业英语教材。本书选材均为人文职场中核心的话题，包括：哲学、语言、艺术、历史、社会科学等，并配有录音光盘和教师用书。

To the Student

Unit 1 Philosophy

 Lesson 1 Are you going to be a philosopher

 Lesson 2 First day of class

 Lesson 3 In my opinion...

 Lesson 4 Too much to do

 Lesson 5 The philosophy of right and wrong

 Lesson 6 If we go ahead with this plan...

 Team Project 1

Unit 2 Language

 Lesson 1 I don't have much experience

 Lesson 2 Can you tell me a little about yourself

 Lesson 3 Can you do a translation

 Lesson 4 Linking languages

 Lesson 5 We need the translation tomorrow

 Lesson 6 A report on our services

 Team Project 2

Unit 3 Art

 Lesson 1 We help artists sell their work

 Lesson 2 Getting the facts

 Lesson 3 I'm not so sure about that

 Lesson 4 Keeping traditional arts alive

 Lesson 5 Our objective in this meeting...

 Lesson 6 What should we do to help...

 Team Project 3

Unit 4 History

 Lessen 1 Preserving the past

 Lesson 2 life wasn't easy

 Lessen 3 I'd be glad to

 Lesson 4 At home in 1250 A.D.

 Lesson 5 It must have been uncomfortable

 Lesson 6 Messages from the past

 Team Project 4

Unit 5 Social Science

 Lessen 1 A very interesting question

 Lesson 2 I'm very happy to be here

 Lesson 3 Gathering information

 Lesson 4 How good are our schools

 Lesson 5 How is your research going

 Lesson 6 The results of our survey show...

 Team Project 5

Unit Reviews

Unit Tests

Reading Resources

Writing Resources

Additional Activities

Grammsr Resource

Glosssry