本书由圣智学习集团引进，主要培养学生英语阅读能力和提高词汇量和词汇运用能力。本册书共9个单元，分别为9个不同的主题。每个单元包含两个阅读语篇，语篇与单元主题相关。语篇配有阅读理解练习和词汇练习，注重培养学生的语篇理解能力、词块意识、思辨能力。本册书适合程度较好的高一学生或高二学生使用。

戴波拉·高登和劳里·布拉斯是美国籍资深英语教学专家。研究领域是第二语言学习，是ELT专业多本学生书籍和专业参考书的作者，有多年英语读物、教师指导手册、练习册等英语教学材料的编写经验。

ONE FOOD
READING 1 Foods with Many Uses
READING SKILL: Recognizing Word Forms
READING 2 The Amazing Coconut
READING SKILL: Scanning for Specific
Information
UNIT REVIEW
TWO THE FACE
READING 1 Face Blindness
READING SKILL: Identifying Main Ideas
READING 2 Fa-Recognition Technology
READING SKILL: Recognizing Supporting
Information
UNIT REVIEW
THREE CITIES
READING 1 Livable Cities
READING SKILL: Understanding Cause
and Effect
READING 2 Kazakhstan's City of Tomorrow
READING SKILL: Making Inferences
UNIT REVIEW
FOUR TECHNOLOGY
READING 1 Augmented Reality
READING SKILL: Connecting Examples
to the Main Ideas They Support
READING 2 From Humans to Cyborgs?
READING SKILL: Identifying the Meaning
of Unfamiliar Words
UNIT REVIEW
FIVE MUSIC
READING 1 Seeing Music
READING SKILL: Taking Notes
READING 2 Earworms: The Songs in Your Head
READING SKILL: Identifying Pronoun
References
UNIT REVIEW
SIX ANIMAL GROUPS
READING 1 Living Together
READING SKILL: Organizing information
in a Chart
READING 2 The Genius of Swarms
READING SKILL: Recognizing Facts and
Theories
UNIT REVIEW
SEVEN MAKING NEWS
READING I Accidental Reporters
READING SKILL: Understanding
Quotations
READING 2 Telling Kibera's Story
READING SKILL: Identifying Supporting
Examples
UNIT REVIEW
EIGHT NOISE AND LIGHT
READING 1 Noisy Earth
READING SKILL: Evaluating Sources
READING 2 Our Vanishing Night
READING SKILL: Using Flowcharts to
Show Causes and Effects
UNIT REVIEW
NINE EXPRESSIONS
READING 1 In Your Face
READING SKILL: Understanding Words
that Show Contrast
READING 2 The Science of Smiles
READING SKILL: Understanding
Reference Words
UNIT REVIEW
Vocabulary Index
Credits