艾丹、胡慧主编的《新世纪基础英语（附光盘2）》是学生用书的第2册，包括名人故事、人生意义、新闻媒体、货币故事、词汇由来、神话故事、社会问题、科学与未来、风俗习惯、两难境地、文化差异等主题。每个单元由以下几个部分组成：

热身练习：让学生阅读课文之前先听课文录音，完成听写填空练习，并进行有关课文主题的讨论，从而激发他们的兴趣，开阔他们的思路，为正式进入课文学习做好准备。

课文：课文含A、B两篇，A为主课文，B为辅助课文，每篇课文之后都附有词汇表、专有名词表、常用词组表和详细的注释。课文练习包括阅读理解、词汇运用、英汉翻译等，重点巩固所学词汇、句型，并训练基本的英汉互译的能力。

对话：在A、B课文之间插有一段紧扣单元主题、语言生动、表达地道的对话，并提供了对话练习语境，使学生能够根据具体情况自由发挥，学以致用。

语法：基本的语法知识的讲解能使学生对英语的语法系统有一个大概的了解，从而提高他们对英语的理解和掌握。

附录：本册书后附有词汇表、常用表达法、专有名词表以及英语不规则动词表等。

Unit 1 People around you

 Text A Look carefully and learn

 Dialogue1 Keep in touch

 Text B Bill Gates

 Grmnmar 1. Present and past continuous tenses

 2. Auxiliary verbs

Unit 2 Around the world

 Text A England and Britain

 Dialogue We want to go to Spain

 Text B Impressions of the British

 Grammar The comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs

Unit 3 Life stories

 Text A Excuses

 Dialogue A birthday gift

 Text B Whatever you need

 Grammar Word formation

Unit 4 News and media

 Text A Surviving a plane crash

 Dialogue What a messt.

 Text B Different types of media

 Grammar Types of sentences

Unit 5 Dealin9 with money

 Text A Money and the meaning of life

 Dialogue Making ends meet

 Text B The history of money

 Grammar Present perfect tense

Unit 6 Words and stories

 Text A The dumbest of grammas in the world

 Dialogue Seeing eye to eye

 Text B Where are the words from

 Grarnmar Modal verbs can， may， must

Unit 7 Fairy stories

 Text A The eagle and the beetle

 Dialogue The moral of a fable

 Text B Walking in the woods

 Grammar When.clause and if-clause

Unit 8 Social matters

 Text A FBI teams up with business to fight cyber crime

 Dialogue A chat on line

 Text B Good intentions arent enough

 Grammar Restrictive attributive clause

Unit 9 Science and future

 Text A Why we must venture into space

 Dialogue A difficult job to do

 Text B How computers came about

 Grammar Expressions of simple future tense：will and be going to

Unit 10 Customs

 Text A A national holiday

 Dialogue Dinner invitation

 Text B April Fools Day

 Grammar Passive voice

Unit 11 Dilemmas

 Text A A working womans dilemma

 Dialogue A students dilemma

 Text B The prisoners dilemma.a fable

 Grammar Direct and indirect speeches

Unit 12 Cultural difference

 Text A Walls

 Dialogue Italian food

 Text B What are good manners？

 Grammar Present and past participles

Appendix： Glossary

 Useful Expressions

 Proper Names

 Irregular Verbs