Unit 1 Language
READING SKILLS：Developing Your Reading Efficiency
TEXT A Words Have the Power to Change Our Lives
TEXT B Can Poetry Save Your Life?
WRITING: Well-organized Essay Writing
Unit 2 Cultural Varieties
READING SKILLS：Developing Your Reading Flexibility
TEXT A Lefties, You Should Feel Very Spe
TEXT B There’s More to Life than Being Happy
WRITING: Paragraph
Unit 3 Life and Health ( Ⅰ )
READING SKILLS：Reading Rate
TEXT A Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name
TEXT B Self-reliance
WRITING: Summary
Unit 4 Work and Employment
READING SKILLS：Skimming: Reading for Main Ideas
TEXT A Thank God It’s Monday
TEXT B Why Should We Hire You?
WRITING: Resume
Unit 5 Science and Technology
READING SKILLS：Scanning: Rapidly Locating Information
TEXT A If a Time Traveler Saw a Smartphone
TEXT B Science and Technology
WRITING: Application Letter
Unit 6 Life and Health ( Ⅱ )
READING SKILLS：Techniques for Reading Faster
TEXT A Are Engineered Food Evils?
TEXT B The Messy Truth about Weight Loss
WRITING: Graphs
Unit 7 Environment and Energy
READING SKILLS：What Is Active Reading?
TEXT A Renewable Energy Has More Economic Benefits than You Know
TEXT B Climate Change’s Giant Impact on the Economy: 4 Key
Issues
WRITING: Exposition
Unit 8 Culture and Education
READING SKILLS：Prereading
TEXT A How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
TEXT B What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
WRITING: Exemplification
Unit 9 Economics and Management ( Ⅰ )
READING SKILLS：Making Predictions and Connections
TEXT A Toward a Happier Office with Data-driven Nudges
TEXT B Many Restaurants and Cafes Refuse to Accept Cash
WRITING: Cause and Effect
Unit 10 Economics and Management ( Ⅱ )
READING SKILLS: Improving Your Concentration
TEXT A Gender Pay Gap Persists Despite Rise in Reporting
TEXT B Why Women’s Voices Are Scarce in Economics
WRITING: Comparison and Contrast
Unit 11 Environment and Sustainability
READING SKILLS: Increasing Your Attention Span
TEXT A Three Challenges to Sustainability
TEXT B True Height
WRITING: Definition
Unit 12 Success and Happiness
READING SKILLS: Remembering What You Read
TEXT A Laws of Lasting Love
TEXT B How to Pursue Happiness
WRITING: Argumentation
READING COMPREHENSION TESTS

本书共4个单元，每单元3课，共12课。每课选文前有阅读技巧介绍，后跟A和B两篇课文，课文后列出生词表、注释、作者及文章背景介绍等，并且针对阅读技巧和课文编写了大量的实用性的练习题目。本次修订在调研众多使用院校意见的基础上，删除一些过时、不适于教学的篇章，同时从英美近期新期刊、报纸、杂志等选取一些时新的语料素材进行替换。所选文章主题契合当今研究生主要的大类专业，如经管、法律、科技、人文、医学、农林等，以适应多种专业的需求。同时对课后练习进行整体规划，增加基础级与提不错之间的逻辑性、延续性，方便教师进行延续性教学。