本教材编写充分考虑了新时代大学英语的教学模式和学生的学习特点，进行了教学模式和教学方法的创新，遵循因材施教，倡导教学相长，提高语言能力，培养学习策略。教材编写充分考虑了新时代学生的实际英语水平，在内容设置上强调与大学英语四／六级考试紧密结合，所列举的单元话题和设置的习题类型均是《大学英语课程教学要求》和《四／六级考试大纲》中要求了解和掌握的，突出了教材的功能实用性。

Unit Growing Up

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: Rustling Raspberries

 Part Ill Text B: Standing Tall--A Little Person Teaches a Big Lesson

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: Coming-of-age Ceremonies

Unit 2 Discrimination

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: How Can Women Have It All?

 Part III Text B: After 40 Years, Age Discrimination Still Gets

 Second-class Treatment

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: The Feminist Movement

Unit 3 Jobs and Careers

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: How a Good Candidate Clears the H.R. Hurdles

 Part III Text B: Constraining America' s Brightest

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: Making College Relevant to Employment

Unit 4 Natural Disasters

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: As Disaster Follows Disaster, Relief Groups Feel the Strain

 Part III Text B: Bracing for the Flood

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: September 11 Attacks

Unit 5 Family

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: Clearing Paths to the Past

 Part III Text B: Shrines to Childhood

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus : The American Family

Unit 6 Internet Security

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A : Typing in an E-mail Address, and Giving up

 Your Friends' as Well

 Part III Text B: Top Ten Cyber Security Tips

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: Hollywood Hacker Movies

Unit 7 Save Ourselves

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: To Plant a Tree

 Part III Text B: To Catch a Rising Rainbow

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus. Earth Day

Unit 8 Culture Shock

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Text A: Living in Switzerland: The Reality Is More

 Complex than the Image

 Part III Text B: Culture Shock: It's the Little Things that

 Count in the Biggest Ways

 Part IV Structured Writing

 Culture Focus: Swiss Chocolate

Glossary

Phrases and Expressions

Proper Names