本教材的教学目标是为了使学生掌握英语这门工具，培养和提高学生的阅读能力和运用英语的能力，具有较高的听、说、读、写、译水平，从而顺利进行本专业的学习、研究与国际交流。 本书共设15单元，每单元设有快速阅读、课文、词汇、背景知识、练习等，前10个单元设科技写作和实用写作。在内容选择上，本书以科技英语为主线，以国际学术交流为导向，围绕学生所需要的英语知识，启发学生演讲和写作的灵感。同时，注重高质量的英语输入，帮助学生构建外语知识体系，培养学生的英语自主学习能力。本书所选文章均为原汁原味的英语佳作。

UNIT 1 Culture Difference
Fast Reading Culture Shock: A Fish Out of Water
Text A Managers in Intercultural Environment
Text B The Culture Code
Writing Personal Statement
UNIT 2 Education
Fast Reading Why Have General Education Requirements for Students？
Text A What Every Student Should Know？
Text B Up in the Morning and off to School
Writing Resume
UNIT 3 Intellenctual Property and Its Protection
Fast Reading Gengle Loses Trademark Dispute in France
Text A Intellectual Property
Text B Bush Administration's Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection
Writing Job Application Letters( I ) (46)
UNIT 4 Science and Literaturer
Fast Reading Theory of Evolution
Text A Textual Selection
Text B Relationship between Science and Literature
Writing Job Application Letters ( II )
UNIT 5 The Road to Success
Fast Reading The Road to Business Success
Text A Michael Delss Two Billion Dollars Dream
Text B Passage One Skills in Demand
Passage Two The Interview
Writing Writing Memos
UNIT 6 Food and Health
Fast Reading Improving Your Health
Text A Will Frankenfood Feed the World？
Text B A Healthy Diet
Writing Vroposals
UNIT 7 Language
Fast Reading English Language Imperialism
Text A Potentially Confusing and Embarrasing Differences between American
and British English
Text B Linguistic Imperialism and Linguistic Democracy
Writing Abstracts
UNIT 8 Emotion
Fast Reading The Emotional Bank Account
Text A Challenges to a Lasting Relationship
Text B Accepting Oneself
Writing Summaries
UNIT 9 Cyberspace
Fast Reading Wikipedia
Text A Who Knows？
Text B Computer and Cyberspace Addiction
Writing Research Papers
UNIT 10 Music and Science
Text B Music,the Food of Neuroscience？
Writing Technical Reports
UNIT 11 Men and Women
Fast Reading Male Brain, Female Brain:The Hidden Difference
Text A Can't We Talk？
Text B Understanding the Difference between Men and Women
UNIT 12 Overcoming Disease
Fast Reading How to Stay Healthy and Overcome Disease？
Text A Fighting Infection Effectively
Text B What We Still Don't Know about AIDS？
UNIT 13 Stern Cell
Fast Reading Stem Cell Basics
Text A Speech on the U.S. Stem Cell Research Policy ( I )
Text B Speech on the U. S Stem Cell Research Policy ( II )
UNIT 14 International Relationship & Nuclear Weapons
Fast Reading Nuclear Weapons
Text A Going Critical, Defying the World
Text B North Koreans' Nuclear Device Underground
UNIT 15 Environmental Protection
Fast Reading Warming to Economics
Text A A Silent Spring for Climate Change？
Text B The Cost of Global Wanning
Keys to Exercises