本套教材共四册,是面向高中英语水平以上的学生而编写的强化阅读教程。本套书的词汇量起点为很基础的3000个单词,通过计算机程序筛选,以英国国家语料库很常用词汇列表的前11部分为基准,每册书增加2000个新词,四册书的词汇覆盖量达到11000。每册各包含十个单元,每单元由Focus on、Text A和Text B三部分组成。本书帮助学生掌握第3000~5 000的两千词汇量;Focus on板块主要聚焦构词法,加深学生对构词法规律的认知。
Unit1 Nature and Tourism
Section Ⅰ Focus on Compound Words
Section Ⅱ Text A:Chinese:The New Globe-travelers
Section Ⅲ Text B:Great Barrier Reef
Unit2 Health and Science.
Section Ⅰ Focus on Prefix(Ⅰ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:How Diversity Makes US Smarter
Section Ⅲ Text B:Why So Many Young Doctors Work Such Awful Hours
Unit3 Media and Sports
Section Ⅰ Focus on Prefix(Ⅱ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Chinese-style Origins Give Life to Domestic Animation
Section Ⅲ Text B:Olympic Games:Paris and LA "Only Want 2024 Games".
Unit4 Law and Morality
Section Ⅰ Focus on Prefix(Ⅲ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:The Historical Development of International Human Rights
Section Ⅲ Text B:"It's Very Scary in the Forest":Should Finland's Wolves Be Killed?
Unit5 Philosophy and Psychology
Section Ⅰ Focus on Prefix(Ⅳ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:What Is Psychology?
Section Ⅲ Text B:The Case for Shyness
Unit6 Linguistics and Literature
Section Ⅰ Focus on Suffix(Ⅰ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Knowledge of Language as a Focus of Probe
Section Ⅲ Text B:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Unit7 Environment and Health
Section Ⅰ Focus on Suffix(Ⅱ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Breathless in Bakersfield:Is the Worst Air
Pollution in the U.S.About to Get Worse?
Section Ⅲ Text B:From Sea to Plate:How Plastic Got into Our Fish
Unit8 Campus and Society
Section Ⅰ Focus on Suffix(Ⅲ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Your Guide to Free Money:College Scholarships
Section Ⅲ Text B:Rutger Bregman:"We Could Cut the
Working Week by a Third".
Unit9 Economy and Trade
Section Ⅰ Focus on Conversion(Ⅰ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Prospering Market Is a Problem, But a Nice One
Section Ⅲ Text B:A Target Too Big to Nail
Unit10 Education and Technology
Section Ⅰ Focus on Conversion(Ⅱ)
Section Ⅱ Text A:Learners Behind Bars
Section Ⅲ Text B:How Technology Gets Us Hooked