本书根据**教委颁布的《非英语专业研究生英语教学大纲（试行稿）》编写，供非英语专业硕士研究生、工商管理硕士（MBA）研究生和在职研究生英语教学使用。
本书分两册。第Ⅱ册在第Ⅰ册的基础上编写，也分10个单元，各单元都有作者介绍、课文、生词、词组、注释、练习、阅读材料及其练习等。课文和阅读材料选自英美或当今报刊杂志，练习包括：问题、讨论题、词汇、填空、改错、翻译、应用文写作、阅读理解等。本书还附有“练习参考答案”，供读者参考。

UNIT ONE
Text:The Glorious Messiness of English
Further Reading:An English-Speaking World
UNTI TWO
Text:A season for Hymning and Hawing
Further Reading:Fall Comes in on Roller Skates
UNIT THREE
Text:Farewell,My Unlovely
Further Reading:The City
UNIT FOUR
Text:Music in the Modern World
Further Reading:What to Listen for im Music
UNIT FIVE
Text:Our picture of the Universe
Further Reading:Roaming the Cosmos
UNIT SIX
Text:The Substitute Teacher
Further Reading:My Posse Don't Do Homework
UNIT SEVEN
Text:Allaying the Fear of the New Technology
Further Reading:Staying Afloat
UNTI EIGHT
Text:What Your Body Language Says About You
Further Reading:How to Read Body Language
UNIT NINE
Text:THE Youngest and Brightest Thing Around
Further Reading:New Babies Are Smarter than You Think
UNIT TEN
Text:2001:The World Our Students Will Enter
Further Reading:A Question of Degrees:New Possibilities for Higher Education
APPENDIX Ⅰ
Vocabulary
APPENDIX Ⅱ
Phrases and Expressions
APPENDIX Ⅲ
Key to Exercises