本教材《研究生英语读写教程(提高级)》，由中国人民大学出版社、北京市高等教育学会研究生英语教学研究分会和全国各有关院校共同研发，在2004年、2007年和2012出版的《研究生英语阅读教程(提高级)》的基础上修订出版。本书适用于高等院校文、理、工、医、农、林等各学科的非英语专业硕士研究生和部分博士研究生，也可作为全国同等学力人员攻读硕士学位研究生的读写教材或其他英语学习人员的自学教材。本教程依据最新《非英语专业学位研究生英语教学大纲》和《非英语专业研究生英语词汇大纲》，以创新教育和自主学习理论为编写理念，体现研究生教育的内涵，体现思想性、人文性和专业性，教程的特色是主题统领，内容依托，专业结合，并与北京市非英语专业研究生英语统考接轨，有助于运用翻转课堂，开展启发式和讨论式教学。本教程具有独特的整体性、系统性、严谨性和创新性，能够有效提高硕士、博士研究生的英语水平和运用能力，并能够开阔视野，提升思辨能力，激发创新思维。

Unit 1 Leaders and Leadership
Passage A President Xi Jinping's 2020 New Year Speech
Passage B Anecdotes of Yanzi
Write Academically： Preparing for a Research Paper
Unit 2 Language and Culture
Passage A World English： A Blessing or a Curse?
Passage B Humbled by Nature， Humble by Culture
Write Academically： Choosing a Topic
Unit 3 Ecology and Economy
Passage A Spillonomics： Underestimating Risk
Passage B Environmental Protection in the Eyes of the Poor
Write Academically： Constructing Research Proposal
Unit 4 Medical Research
Passage A What Genius and Autism Have in Common?
Passage B A Pill for Loneliness
Write Academically： Deciding on a Title
Unit 5 Leading Scientist and Pioneering Work
Passage A A Beautiful Mind
Passage B Mind over Machine
Write Academically： Creating an Outline
Unit 6 People and the World
Passage A A Christmas Sermon on Peace
Passage B Bill Clinton
Write Academically： Citation vs． Plagiarism
Unit 7 Space and Species
Passage A Our Picture of the Universe
Passage B If Half of All Species Go Extinct， Will One of Them Be Us?
Write Academically： Writing the Introduction
Unit 8 Career and Work
Passage A Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore
Passage B It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work after Graduation
Write Academically： Writing a Literature Review
Unit 9 Desire and Anxiety
Passage A Steve Jobs
Passage B Fearing Fear Itself
Write Academically： Presenting Methodology
Unit 10 Alone and Lonely
Passage A Spell of the Rising Moon
Passage B One Is the Loneliest Number： the History of a Western Problem
Write Academically： Composing Results and Discussion
Unit 11 Chip Wars and Tech Revolution
Passage A Chip Wars
Passage B Will Tech Revolution Overwhelm Global System?
Write Academically： Presenting Tables and Figures
Unit 12 Health and Disease
Passage A E-cigarettes： A Fairy Tale of a Healthy Alternative to Conventional
Cigarettes?
Passage B Is Obesity Really a Disease?
Write Academically： Writing Conclusion and Recommendation
Unit 13 Energy and Environment
Passage A Nuclear Energy Regulation Risk and the Environment
Passage B Why Don't More Cities Require Green Roofs?
Write Academically： References
Unit 14 Surveillance and Supervision
Passage A The Employer-Surveillance State
Passage B The Controversy over Parents Who Eat Lunch with Their Children at School
Write Academically： Writing an Abstract
Unit 15 Global Green Economy
Passage A Global Green Growth Engine in the Making
Passage B Get the Lead Out： Why the Best Way to Improve Health in Poor Countries Is to Clean up Industrial Pollution?
Write Academically： Preparing for Publication