《英语精选导读（上）》所选文章均为英语经典美文，每篇美文后附有单词解析、**句型、参考译文、背景知识等内容，让学生在朗读、欣赏完一篇美文后，还能扩充单词量、巩固语法知识、斟酌文中好句，并感悟人生，达到赏析和学习语言的目的。
《英语精选导读（上）》既是提高普通高等院校非英语专业本科学生的文学素养与欣赏水平的新型实用教材，同时也是欣赏英语美文的入门书籍。

Chapter One Phonetics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Unit 1 Single Vowels
Unit 2 Diphthongs
Unit 3 Consonants
Unit 4 Stress
Unit 5 Liaison
Unit 6 intonation
Unit 7 Pausing
Unit 8 Comprehensive Exerases

Chapter Two Essay
Unit 1 About Love
Unit 2 Advice to a Young Man
Unit 3 Love Your Life
Unit 4 On Friendship i
Unit 5 Three Days to See （Ⅰ）
Unit 6 Three Days to See （Ⅱ ）
Unit 7 We're just Beginning
Unit 8 Youth
Further Reading
If the World Were a Village of too People
Of Studies

Chapter Three Poetry
Unit 1 I'm Nobody， Who Are You?
Unit 2 Down by the Salley Gardens
Unit 3 When You Are Old
Unit 4 If You Think You Are Beaten
Unit 5 Blowing in the Wind
Unit 6 The Road Not Taken
Unit 7 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Unit 8 We Were Dear to Each Other
Further Reading
A Red Red Rose
Sonnet 29

Chapter Four Film Scripts
Unit 1 Titanic （Excerpt）
Unit 2 The Joy Luck Club （Excerpt）
Unit 3 Schindler's List （Excerpt
Unit 4 Romeo and Juliet （Excerpt）
Unit 5 Roman Holiday （Excerpt）
Unit 6 The Shawshank Redemption （Excerpt）
Unit 7 The Legend of igoo （Excerpt）
Unit 8 The Sound of Music （Excerpt）
Further Reading

Forrest Gump （Excerpt）
Good Will Hunting（Excerpt）