本教材由北京外国语大学多位资深教授编写，适用于高校英语专业高年级的高级英语课程。在第三版的基础上进行了再版，调整和删减了部分选篇，使之更符合学生的学习习惯，更加便利教学。教材沿用第三版的经典内容，包括供教师参考的补充背景知识，课文详解，练习答案，”阅读、思考与评论”解析。本教师用书与学生用书完全匹配，内容详实，方便教学，内容细致入微，可供教师授课或学生自学使用。

Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English
Lesson 2 The Sad Young Men
Lesson 3 Loving and Hating New York
Lesson 4 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Excerpts)
Lesson 5 The Future of the English
Lesson 6 The Loons
Lesson 7 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
Lesson 8 Four Laws of Ecology (Part I)
Lesson 9 Four Laws of Ecology (Part II)
Lesson 10 The Mansion: A Subprime Parable (Excerpts)
Lesson 11 Faustian Economics
Lesson 12 Disappearing Through the Skylight (Excerpts)