《新编综合英语》是为高等院校英语专业综合英语课程编写的教材。本套教材着力反映教育发展趋势，适应21世纪外语人才培养的需要，满足外语教师发展需求，符合外语教学大纲标准。教材力求体现科学性、系统性、知识性、趣味性、典型性和多样性。整套教材编写以人为本，展现自主、探索和体验性学习，培养批判性思维能力，促进认知向深层发展。

《新编综合英语》(作者刘东虹、蔡满园)基础阶段共分4册，本册为第4册，供师范院校英语专业一年级下学期使用。

本册共14个单元。

Unit 1 University Life

Reading 1 You can be President of the United States

Reading 2 Goodbye and Good Luck!

Unit 2 Humor in Life

Reading 1 Bathing in a Borrowed Suit

Reading 2 How to Borrow Money

Unit 3 Social Problems

Reading 1 A Plan to Make Homelessness History

Reading 2 Save the Children?

Unit 4 Creative Thinking

Reading 1 Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving

Reading 2 A Real Science of Mind

Unit 5 Liberal Education

Reading 1 A Liberal Education

Reading 2 Education is supposed to make you rich, not wealthy

Unit 6 Marriage

Reading 1 The Story of an Hour

Reading 2 How to Love and to be Loved

Unit 7 Mental Health

Reading 1 My Life in Therapy

Reading 2 When is Depression Guilt.'?

Unit 8 Virtue and Morality

Reading 1 The Vice of Punctuality

Reading 2 Fairy Tales

Unit 9 Self-esteem

Reading 1 The Future Mrs. Rochester

Reading 2 My Declaration of Self-esteem

Unit 10 National Prejudices

Reading 1 On National Prejudices

Reading 2 A Multicultural Cocktail] Is Australia On the Rocks?

Unit 11 Youth and Love

Reading 1 The Old Woman

Reading 2 My Lost Youth

Unit 12 Dream and Dreamer

Reading 1 The Dreamer

Reading 2 Confidence to Pursue the Dream

Unit 13 Nature and Life

Reading 1 The Marginal World

Reading 2 Strange Encounter with a Wolf

Unit 14 Past Memories

Reading 1 Crossing the Threshold

Reading 2 Making a Writer