本教程为“新世纪大学英语系列教材”的一个系列，侧重学生阅读和写作能力的培养，同时兼顾其他能力的训练。本教材共分两大部分，**部分由一、二两册组成，主要探讨不同体裁文章的阅读方法以及句子和段落层次的写作方式。第二部分由三、四两册组成，侧重对各种阅读理解方法的训练，并着力提高学习者篇章层次的写作能力。整个教学过程注重阅读和写作的有机结合，知识学习与技能训练的有机结合，语言知识与社会文化知识的有机结合。编者希望本系列教材能为大学英语教师和学生在达到大学英语教学大纲的要求的努力中架起一道更为便捷的桥梁。
本教程的第三、第四册各包含十个单元，每一个单元都由四个部分组成。**部分侧重阅读技能的训练，第二部分侧重词汇学习，第三部分主要训练写的能力，第四部分为文学欣赏。在**部分所介绍的两篇文章中，前一篇可作为一般阅读课文，后一篇可作为精读课文。为方便读者的学习，精读课文后配有详细的生词表，词表分参考词汇与必学词汇。在参考词汇的生词表中，标有“*”号的为大学英语六级后词汇，其他为超纲词汇。在必学词汇的生词表中，标有“*”号的为大学英语六级词汇，其他均为四级词汇。

Unit One
Part A:Peading Skills-Making Inferences(I)
Reading Selection One:The Ugly Truth about Beauty
Reading Selection Two:Sex,Lies and Conversation
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Description(I)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Two
Part A:Peading Skills-Making Infernces(II)
Reading Selection One:Kids Today:Dumb and Dumber?
Reading Selection Two:E equals MC-what?
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Description(II)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Three
Part A:Peading Skills-Drawing Conclusions(I)
Reading Selection One:Young Cyber Addicts
Reading Selection Two:Freedom of Expression on the Internet
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Exposition(I)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Four
Part A:Peading Skills-Drawing Conclusions(II)
Reading Selection One:Drop of Blood Reveals Family History
Reading Selection Two:Designing the Superman
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Exposition(II)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Five
Part A:Peading Skills-Making Judgments
Reading Selection One:Perils of Prohibition
Reading Selection Two:You Don't Have to Be Perfect
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Parallelism(I)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Six
Part A:Peading Skills-Recognizing Tones(I)
Reading Selection One:Mind/Body Programming
Reading Selection Two:Do Animals Think?
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Parallelism(II)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Seven
Part A:Peading Skills-Recognizing Tones(II)
Reading Selection One:Electric Tales-21st Century Books
Reading Selection Two:Cars of the Future Come Under Scrutiny
Part B:Vocabulary Skills
Part C:Guided Writing and Traslation
Argumentation(I)
Part D:Literary Appreciation
Unit Eight
Unit Nine
Unit Ten

·探讨不同体裁文章的阅读方法以及句子、段落和篇章的写作方式。
·注重阅读和写作、知识学习与技能训练、语言知识和社会文化知识的有机结合。
·帮助学生实现从语言知识积累到语言运用能力提高、从孤立的语言现象学习到综合语言能力提高的转变。