《大学英语》系列教材的再修订,以《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》为依据,历经三年调研,汲取全国百所高校师生的建议和意见,旨在发扬我国大学英语教学的优良传统,推广成功经验,为新时期人才培养再作贡献。
融合传统与现代教学理念:强调打好扎实语言基本功,突出综合应用能力的提高;
发挥综合优势,完善原有体系:大幅度、全方位修订《精读》、《泛读》、《听力》、预备级《泛读》、预备级《听力》,重编《快读阅读》、预备级《精读》,删繁就简《语法与练习》;
调整起点,充实优化素材:1800词起点(预备级1300词);选材全面完备,经典性与现代性、文学性与科普性**匹配;
革新练习,五种技能并重:阅读材料丰富多彩,听力训练形式多样,词汇练习注重复现,语法操练循序渐进,翻译训练实用全面,口语活动精彩纷呈,写作训练由浅入深,四、六级口、笔试中学生常犯的语言错误讲解分析精辟实用;
辅以现代教育技术手段,充分满足教学需要:同步推出与纸质教材配套的电子教案和学生学习光盘,帮助教师构建新型的课堂教学模式,为学生创造自主式、交互式的学习环境。

UNIT ONE
1.The Kindness of Strangers
2.Drowning
3.Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary
UNIT Two
4.My Way to Success
5.Why Smart People Fail
6.I Never Had It Made
UNIT THREE
7.The City
8.My Cousin, the Gambler
9.Waiting-Room
UNIT FOUR
10.Carnegie, an American Industrialist
11.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come Till 4: 30
12.The Pace of Life
TEST YOURSELF (1)
UNIT FIVE
13.The Importance of Being Interested
14, Why Graduates Won't Wear Science
15.Sold on the Super Mall
UNIT SIX
16.Mr.Know-All
17.They Created the Jet Age
18."No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache"
UNIT SEVEN
19.Family Ties
20.Improving the Quality of Life
21.The Nobel Prizes
UNIT EIGHT
22.University Days
23.Space -- 30 Years into the Future
24."A Troublesome Boy".
TEST YOURSELF (2)
APPENDICES:
1. Glossary
2. Key to Test Yourself (1) and (2)
3.Key to Comprehension of the Text