《新编综合英语》共四册，每册12个单元，四册共48个单元，在词汇、语法、语篇等难度系数上逐步提高。每单元围绕一个中心主题，分为课文A（TextA）和课文B（TextB）两个部分，两篇课文主题上相互关联。课文A为精讲篇章，由教师讲解，要求学生深入、透彻地理解课文并完成课前练习和课后练习，课前练习如词汇、背景知识激活等，课后练习包括读、说、写、译的基本能力训练，包括问答、释义、词汇选择、选择填空、完型填空、英译中、中译英与写作等多种练习形式；TextB是与TextA话题相关的内容拓展或者深化部分，是学生写作、讨论及辩论的基本材料，练习形式为问答题。
前言
Unit 1
Text A Are You Training Yourself to Fail?
Text B Bad Work Habits： How to Break Them
Unit 2
Text A Metaphors We Live By
Text B Language and Thought
Unit 3
Text A Ten Very Strange British Traditions
Text B Prank You Very Much
Unit 4
Text A Training and Education
Text B Choosing a University Course
Unit 5
Text A My Love of Cheese Nearly Cost Me My Leg
Text B A Private Plague
Unit 6
Text A Marketing Is Dead
Text B Green Economy
Unit 7
Text A Heart of Darkness
Text B Pigs Is Pigs
Unit 8
Text A How Time Travel Works
Text B Do Parallel Universes Really Exist?
Unit 9
Text A The Anger of a Child
Text B The Early Marriage Life of the Morels
Unit 10
Text A The Package
Text B Painting a Hidden Life
Unit 11
Text A Revealed： The Meaning of Life
Text B What Is the Soul?
Unit 12
Text A Functions of the Financial Markets
Text B Love, Trust, and Candor
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后记
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