本系列教材是高校英语专业教材。具有以下特点：1.针对英语专业教学多元化的需要，以“语块理论”和“任务型教学”等理念为指导的创新教材；2.注重培养学生英语运用时的理解与沟通能力，批判性思维和实践动手能力；3.“学能”培养探索性教材；4.本系列教材分综合教程5册，泛读教程5册。

Unit 1 Success Is Being Able to Do Things That Make You Happy

Unit 2 The Housing Problem--Where the Homeless Live

Unit 3 London Transit Executives May Head to New York to Consult on Subway

Unit 4 Personal Statement

Unit 5 A Misspent Life (Excerpt)

Unit 6 Poison Pals

Unit 7 Cope With Life Surprise

Unit 8 Coca-Cola Company

Review

Unit 9 Globalization and the Tower of Babel

Unit 10 Pilgrimage

Unit 11 President Obama's Inaugural Address

Unit 12 Surviving Cultural Shock Is Key to Working Abroad

Unit 13 Miss Brill

Unit 14 “Avatar”: Science, Civilization and the Noble Savage in Space

Unit 15 Dieting, a Waste of Time

Glossary

Phrases and Expressions