本书与《高级英语》教材相配套，着力解决学生学习过程中的词汇问题。每课的词汇练习设100个练习题，涵盖名词、动词、形容词和副词、名词词组、动词短语和其它短语；另外还专门设有一项根据每篇课文的词汇特点编写的词汇小贴士（Vocabulary Tips），以及修辞小贴士（Rhetoric Tips）和人文常识（General Knowledge）等。
上册
Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille
Lesson 2 Hiroshima——the "Liveliest" City in Japan
Lesson 3 Blackmail
Lesson 4 The Trial That Rocked the World
Lesson 5 The Libido for the Ugly
Lesson 6 Mark Twain——Mirror of America
Lesson 7 Everyday Use for Your Grandmama
Lesson 8 Three Cups of Tea
Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union (Part Ⅰ)
Lesson 10 A More Perfect Union (Part Ⅱ)
Lesson 11 The Way to Rainy Mountain
Lesson 12 Ships in the Desert
Lesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea
Lesson 14 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Lesson 15 Argentia Bay
Model Test One
Model Test Two
Model Test Three
List of Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
Keys to Exercises
Keys to Model Tests
下册
Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English
Lesson 2 Marrakech
Lesson 3 Inaugural Address
Lesson 4 Love is a Fallacy
Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men
Lesson 6 Loving and Hating New York
Lesson 7 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Lesson 8 The Future of the English
Lesson 9 The Loons
Lesson 10 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
Lesson 11 Four Laws of Ecology (Part Ⅰ)
Lesson 12 Four Laws of Ecology (Part Ⅱ)
Lesson 13 The Mansion: A Subprime Parable
Lesson 14 Faustian Economics
Lesson 15 Disappearing Through the Skylight
Model Test One
Model Test Two
Model Test Three
List of Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
List of Figures of Speech
Keys to Exercises
Keys to Model Tests
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