本书十分重视学习者英语综合能力的培养，对“英语综合能力”的认识突破“语言加技能”的传统框架，深刻认识到综合语言运用能力的培养和形成是建立在学生的“语言技能、语言知识、情感态度、学习策略和文化意识”等素养整体发展的基础上，明确新版教程必须体现国际化的时代精神和以人为本的教育理念，有利于培养学生良好的英语语言素质、积极的学习态度和规范的学习习惯；有利于促进学生心智、情感、态度与价值观的发展以及综合人文素养的提高；有利于促进探究式、任务型、交际性的教学的实施；有利于培养学生独立思考的习惯、观察分析的能力、合作参与的意识、勇于创新的精神以及人际沟通的技能。

Unit 1
The OlympicGames
Popular Sports in Britain
Two Kinds of Football
The Physical Miseducation of a Former Fat Boy
Sports
Unit 2
A Trip to Huangshan
Natural Resources
America's
National Parks （Part Ⅰ）
America's National Parks（Part Ⅱ）
Conserving Natural Resources
Unit 3
Pollution Control
Global Warming
Environmental Pollution
A Planet in Dangger
How to Live Green
Unit 4
Dreams
Fantasy Fiction—Harry Potter
Daydreaming
How Can You Improve Your Memory?
Recalling My Primary and Secondary School Days
Unit 5
Music
Gala Affairs for Entertainers
Stunts in the Cinema
Soap Opera
Movies Are a Window to the Outside World
Unit 6
Coping with Old Age
What We Know About Old Peoole
The Virtue Called Devotion
Life Doesn't End at Fifty
How to Create an Age—Friandlv Environment
Unit 7
Three American Writers
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
I Write，Therefore I am
How to Find Time to Read
Books Are Lighthouses Erected in the Great Sea of Time
Unit 8
Stage Fright
The Best Years of My Life
Stress and Health
The Fat Environment
How to Relieve Our Stress
Unit 9
Animal Protection
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Intelligence in Animals
Tiny Killers on the March
Keeping Pets： For or Against?
Unit 10
Changes to Family Life
Investing in Your Marriage
Ori Splittiing
The Silent Generations
Changes in Chinese Families
Unit 11
Thanksgiving Day
American Holidays
My Forever Valentine
Easter Sunday Love Feast
The Dragon Boat Festival
Unit 12
Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language
American Education
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
Students Who Push Burgers
Is It Good for Students to Have Part—Time lobs？
Unit 13
Word Study
Children's Acquisition of Languages
The Writing of English
Notes on Punctuation
Why Is It Important to Learn English？
Unit 14
Going Metric
Fast Food and American Culture
Stages of Culture Shock
Harmony and the Dream
How to Overcome Cultural Barriers
Unit 15
The Generation Gap
Parent—Child Relationships
The Parent in Us
Let the Kid Be
Parenting Styles