本套教材共四册，是面向高中英语水平以上的学生而编写的强化阅读教程。本套书的词汇量起点为最基础的3000个单词，通过计算机程序筛选，以英国国家语料库最常用词汇列表的前11部分为基准，每册书增加2000个新词，四册书的词汇覆盖量达到11000。每册各包含十个单元，每单元由Focus on、TextA和Text B三部分组成。
陈颖、刘艳主编的《出国留学英语阅读强化教程(提高)》帮助学生掌握第7000～9000的两千词汇量；Focus on板块主要聚焦阅读技巧与策略，提高学生对阅读材料的整体理解与鉴赏。

Unit 1 Education
Section Ⅰ Focus on Reading Speed
Section Ⅱ Text A: Preparation for Practical Life
Section Ⅲ Text B: "Boxed In" Black
Unit 2 Language and Intelligence
Section Ⅰ Focus on Previewing
Section Ⅱ Text A: Body Language
Section Ⅲ Text B: Super-Inteligence and the Singularity
Unit 3 Finance
Section Ⅰ Focus on Connotations and Denotations
Section Ⅱ Text A: Funny Money
Section Ⅲ Text B: Buying Tomorrow
Unit 4 Culture
Section Ⅰ Focus on Collocations
Section Ⅱ Text A: As to Humanness
Section Ⅲ Text B: "Gypsy" Myth and Romani Reality--New Evidence for Romani History
Unit 5 Journalism
Section Ⅰ Focus on Allusion
Section Ⅱ Text A: Feak Show--History with Lightning
Section Ⅲ Text B: Fun House--Swingin' on the Flippity-Flop
Unit 6 Globalization
Section Ⅰ Focus on Idioms
Section Ⅱ Text A: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance.
Section Ⅲ Text B: The Emergence of a European Economy,Tenth Through Thirteenth Centuries
Unit 7 Feminism
Section Ⅰ Focus on Figurative Language
Section Ⅱ Text A: Making the Cut
Section Ⅲ Text B: Reading Jane Austen's Final,Unfinished Novel
Unit 8 Philosophy
Section Ⅰ Focus on Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning
Section Ⅱ Text A: The Birth of Tragedy
Section Ⅲ Text B: My Adventure with Nietzsche
Unit 9 Politics and Sport
Section Ⅰ Focus on Summarizing
Section Ⅱ Text A: The Conservative Tradition
Section Ⅲ Text B: The Great Game
Unit 10 Morality
Section Ⅰ Focus on Synthesizing Sources
Section Ⅱ Text A: Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
Section Ⅲ Text B: The Long Goodbye