《新编综合英语》基础阶段共分4册，本册为第1册，由向宗平、李权文主编，供师范院校英语专业一年级上学期使用。

本册共14个单元。每单元由Preparation，Reading 1，Exploration，Consolidation，Application，Reading 2，Quotations，Evaluation，Quiz九个板块构成，所有活动设计都体现以学习者为中心的理念。

Unit 1 Teacher and Student

 Reading 1 Why I Teach Whitney L. Grady

 Reading 2 I Want To Be Like You; A Teacher for All Seasons Joanna Fuchs

Unit 2 Animal as Friend

 Reading 1 A Painful but Necessary Goodbye Gabriel Dance

 Reading 2 The Wit of a Duck John Burroughs

Unit 3 Fun in School

 Reading 1 The Fun They Had Isaac Asimov

 Reading 2 A Great Story Shelly Field

Unit 4 Man and Nature

 Reading 1 Spell of the Rising Moon Peter Steinhart

 Reading 2 Camp in a California Wilderness Sasha Abramsky

Unit 5 Travel and City

 Reading 1 Your Kind of Town

 Reading 2 PARIS: The City Beautiful Anne Warwick

Unit 6 Science in Life

 Reading 1 It's a Math World for Animals Emily Sohn

 Reading 2 Yawning Haleh V. Samiei

Unit 7 Book and Library

 Reading 1 Banned Books: A School Librarian's Perspective Sharon Coatney

 Reading 2 Some Thoughts on the Pleasures of Being a Re-Reader Verlyn Klinkenborg

Unit 8 Power of Music

 Reading 1 Power of Music William Wordsworth

 Reading 2 Can Listening to Music Make Your Baby Smarter？ Lyn Lomasi

Unit 9 Festivals and Holidays

 Reading 1 Circles in Time: Marking Life's Seasons Ellyn Sanna

 Reading 2 Papa Panov's Special Christmas Leo Tolstoy

Unit 10 Issues in Education

 Reading 1 Foreign Languages Fade in Class--Except Chinese Sam Dillon

 Reading 2 National Science Tests Scores Disappoint Nick Anderson

Unit 11 Moral Values

 Reading 1 The Yellow Ribbon Pete Hamill

 Reading 2 How Could You？ Jim Willis

Unit 12 Literature and Literacy

 Reading 1 English Literature: Why Should We Study It？ Ian Mackean

 Reading 2 Top Five Books Everyone Must Read and Why Jessica Beagan

Unit 13 Global Village

 Reading 1 What is Globalization？

 Reading 2 Imagine Spaghetti Sauce without the Tomato Nils-Bertil Wallin

Unit 14 Outer Space

 Reading 1 Probing the Universe Mayreen JE Kassem

 Reading 2 Has the Bright Promise of the Space Program Faded？ Louis Harris