中级是这套书的第二册，编写目的在于培养和提高学生综合运用英语的能力，帮助学生从高中英语向大学专业英语学习过渡。一方面，通过全面的语言基本技能训练，培养学生语言实际运用能力，熟练掌握和正确使用英语词汇、常用句型和语法。另一方面，培养学生的思维能力，能够发表自己的意见和看法。
Unit 1
Text A Rural Life in England
Text B American Character
Unit 2
Text A Walking Tours
Text B Camping Out
Unit 3
Text A A Visit to Walt Whitrman
Text B The Situated Thinker
Unit 4
Text A The Private World of the Man with a Book
Text B Too Many Books
Unit 5
Text A Keynesism in the United States
Text B Shop 'til We Drop?
Unit 6
Text A Beauty
Text B Beauty
Unit 7
Text A Male Bashing on TV
Text B The Myth of Male Decline
Unit 8
Text A What Is Science?
Text B Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?
Unit 9
Text A Literary Taste
Text B The Novel Demeuble
Unit 10
Text A The Scientific Romance
Text B A Moralist of Exile
Unit 11
Text A The Urge for an End
Text B Postmodern Fog Has Begun to Lift
Unit 12
Text A Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony
Text B Words and Children
