本书针对大学生对提升英语综合应用能力和思辨能力的需求，以能源与人类福祉相关内容为依托，精心设计讲解与活动，培养学生学术英语相关技能，提升思辨能力和自主学习能力，使学生逐渐过渡到能用英语学习相关领域的专业课程。

Unit 1 Energy and Daily Life
Viewing and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: How Much Do Fossil Fuels Impact Our Lives?
Intensive reading
Reading text: How Competitive Natures Help Reduce Carbon Footprints
Academic writing
Sharing
Unit 2 Energy and Technology
Viewing and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: Three Brealkthroughsto Bring Power to over a Billion People
Intensive reading
Reading text: The IoT Is Changing the Way We Use Energy
Academic writing
Sharing
Unit 3 Energy and Ethics
Viewing and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: Power to the Poor
Intensive reading
Reading text: Energy Ethics
Academic writing
Sharing
Unit 4 Energy and Sustainability
Viewing and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: What Would John Kennedy Have Said About Clean Energy?
Intensive reading
Reading text: The Impossibility of Rapid Energy Transitions
Academic writing
Sharing
Unit 5 Energy and Security
Viewing and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: Energy Efficiency Is the Fifth Fuel
Intensive reading
Reading text: Prospects for Renewable Energy in China
Academic writing
Sharing
Unit 6 Energy and Geopolitics
Listening and speaking
Extensive reading
Reading text: The Geopolitics of Energy
Intensive reading
Reading text: The Complicated Geopolitics of Renewable Energy
Academic writing
Sharing