该教材图文并茂、语言规范、内容新颖。绘画风格幽默，易激起学生用英语会话的积极性；每个单元的主要内容按“热身准备-信息输入-信息输出”的程序编写，通过巩固已学知识、吸收新信息、反息操练运用新知识等各环节的学习，以达到培养和提高学生口头表达能力的目的；“欣赏栏目”寓教于乐，可使学生轻松愉快地欣赏到不同形式的短小、富有情趣的广告词、格言、幽默故事、漫画、正字歪解、笑话、警句等精彩内容；“补充练习”是为学有余力的学生设计的。

Unit One Advertising
Unit Two Modern Romance
Unit Three Juvenile Evils
Unit Four Population Control
Unit Five Metropolitan Epidemics
Unit Six The Troubled Earth
Unit Seven The Generation Gap
Unit Eight No Pains，No Gains
Unit Nine One Country，Two Systems
Unit Ten Part-time Jobs on Campus
Unit Eleven Women in Modern Times
Unit Twelve Job Hunting and Job Hopping
Unit Fourteen Public Relations and Etiquette
Unit Fifteen The Value of Life
Unit Sixteen New Trends in Medicine
Unit Seventeen Enjoying Yourself
Unit Eighteen Higher，Faster，Stronger
Unit Nineteen The Second Information Revolution
Unit Twenty Beyond 2000