本书采用板块结构的形式，全书分10个单元，每个单元编入从PartA到PartD4篇短文，每篇阅读短文后均设有练习，以提高学生的学习效果。
该书题材广泛，语言规范，内容丰富，集知识性与趣味性于一体，不仅适合大学一年级学生第一学期使用，同时也可供其他各类学校中具备同等学业水平的学生及自学者使用。
Unit One
Unit Two
Unit Three
Unit Four
Unit Five
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SUPPLEMENTARY READING MATERIAL
Passage1 How to Study
Passage2 Innumerate,Illiterate
Passage3 How Ruth Make History at Oxford
Passage4 More Than Meets the Eye
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Answer Keys
Unit One
Unit Two
Unit Three
Unit Four
Unit Five
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附录
Today,when English is one of the major languages in the world,it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that this is a relatively recent thing that in Shakespeare's time,for example,only a few million people spoke English,and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe, and was unknown to the rest of the world.