本套教材根据教育部《大学英语课程教学要求》的指导性原则，围绕全国大学英语教学改革思路，注重英语语言知识、应用技能、学习策略和跨文化交际等方面内容，分段地训练学生较强的读写译英语综合应用能力和专业英语技能。本套教材贯彻分类指导、因材施教原则，同时在级别难度上将各种语言技能综合为一体，每个单元同一主题为组织核心，各种技能训练在语言内容上有一定的重叠，达到读写译相互渗透有机组合，推动学生综合应用英语技能的形成和巩固。黄必康、朱慧敏主编的《大学英语教程（附光盘读写译第3版学生用书）》为学生用书。

Unit 1 COLLEGE LIFE

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A How to Adjust to College Life

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B How College Is Different from High School

Unit 2 CREATIVITY IN COLLEGE

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A Creative Failure in College Exam

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B Imagination and the Making of a Physicist

Unit 3 TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A Confessions of a Lonely TA

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B He Rocked, I Reeled

Unit 4 POWER OF THE WEB

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A The Web Is Magic but Students' Research Papers Are Not

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B Two Letters Responding to David Rothenberg

Unit 5 HOW DO WE SEE THE WORLD

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A The World as I See It

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B The Princess and the Nun

Unit 6 ARE WE REALLY FOOLS?

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A To Err Is Human

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B The Advantages of Stupidity

Unit 7 WHAT IS SUCCESS

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A Noble Failures and Petty Successes

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B Cultural Literacy Hypocrisy

Unit 8 ON THE WAY TO REAL LIFE

 Part I Language Skill

 Part II Language in Context

Text A Premature Pragmatism on Campus

 Part III Toward Productive Language

Text B Preparation for Life

Appendix

Vocabulary