本书共二十个单元，每一单元由主题相似的课文A和课文B组成，并配有生词脚注，方便学生阅读；课文后有作者简介及有关文化背景知识的注释，帮助学生对内容的深入了解；阅读理解练习中既有考查获取具体信息能力的细节题，更有启发多维和深度思考的讨论题，书后附部分练习的参考答案。本书可供高等学校英语专业学生作为阅读教材使用，也可供具有中等英语水平的广大英语爱好者自学使用。

Unit 1

 Keys to College Success

 Managing Your Time

Unit 2.

 13 Women and Their Neck]ace

 13 Women and Their Necklace (continued)

Unit 3

 Does Beauty Bring You Power?

 Queen of the Universe

Unit 4

 The Time Machine

 Star Light

Unit 5

 Cat inthe Rain

 Generations of Love

Unit 6

 Oscar: Little Statue of Dreams

 The Shakespeare Nobody Knows

Unit 7

 Love -- In Other Words

 Christmas to Me

Unit 8

 Work Hours and Productivity Change with the Times

 The Saturday Evening Post

Unit 9

 The Cash-free Society

 The Next Society

Unit 10

 The Problem of. Fathers and. Sons

 The Professor Is a Dropout

Unit 11

 Colorful Words, Colored Words and Colorless Words

 Junk English

Unit 12

 Henry Ford- The Man behind the Legend

 Rosa Parks

Unit 13

 One Vote for This Age of Anxiety

 Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go

Unit 14

 Can We and Should We Clone Humans? (Part One)

 Can We and Should We Clone Humans? (Part Two)

Unit 15

 What's Your Emotional IQ?

 A New Attitude to Gratitude

Unit 16

 The Information Age

 Life on the Net

Unit 17

 What's Wrong with Global Warming?

 The Risk of Climate Change is Genuine and Serious

Unit 18

 Seven Kinds of Smart

 Test Your Memory

Unit 19

 The Science of Attraction

 The Nothingness of Happiness

Unit 20

 How to Live to Be 200

 Why do We Age and Die?

Key to the Exercises