《新编综合英语》是为高等院校英语专业综合英语课程编写的教材。《新编综合英语》之所以称为“新编”，是因为它吸收了外语教学研究的新成果，采用了新思路、新理念、新材料、新做法等。

《新编综合英语》高级阶段共4册，本册为《新编综合英语(8)》，由曹曼、闫春梅主编，供师范院校英语专业三年级下学期使用。

本册由12个单元组成。每个单元包含2篇课文(Reading 1 & Reading 2)与5大板块(Schema Building，Information Surfing，Text Understanding，LanguageBuilding & Teacher Awareness)。

Unit 1 Education

 Reading 1 Scenes from the School Turnaround Movement

 Reading 2 The Road to School "Improvement

Unit 2 Chinese Culture

 Reading 1 Social and Intellectual Roots of Constitutionalism

 Reading 2 The Spirit of the Chinese People

Unit 3 Philosophy

 Reading 1 Prejudices of Philosophers

 Reading 2 Walking

Unit 4 Sociology

 Reading 1 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

 Reading 2 Conversation

Unit 5 Modern Short Story

 Reading 1 Signs and Symbols

 Reading 2 A Woman on a Roof

Unit 6 Literary Criticism

 Reading 1 On the Knocking at the Gate

 Reading 2 The Chaos of Critical Theories

Unit 7 Individual and Society

 Reading 1 Self-Reliance

 Reading 2 Poems by Emerson

Unit 8 Classic Novel

 Reading 1 Pride and Prejudice

 Reading 2 Jane Eyre

Unit 9 Nature

 Reading 1 An Island Garden

 Reading 2 The Aspect of London

Unit 10 Science

 Reading 1 Science and Morality

 Reading 2 We Choose to Go to the Moon

Unit 11 Story

 Reading I The Holiday that Changed Everything

 Reading 2 Ballad of the Bottom Dollar

Unit 12 Linguistics

 Reading 1 An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

 Reading 2 Iconicity