本书为非英语专业研究生英语的阅读教材。全书共有20单元。每个单元由相关题材的三篇课文和理解练习组成。课文选自英美报刊，涉及当代人文、科技、经济、管理和大学生生活等方面的热点论题。本书有助于读者提高英语阅读水平、扩大词汇量、拓宽知识面和增强英语口头表达表力，可供非英语专业研究生、MBA研究生和以同等学力申请硕士学位的研究生英语教学和自学使用。

UNIT ONE
1 What Women Do Better
2 Women and Work
3 Women:Invisible Cages
UNIT TWO
4 No Home in Africa
5 A Swimming Lesson
6 Black Men and Public Space
UNIT THREE
7 Best of Bretish Youth
8 Happiness and Wealth
9 Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable
UNIT FOUR
10 Television:The Great Time-Eating Machine
11 Books,and the Imagnation UNIT ONE
1 What Women Do Better
2 Women and Work
3 Women:Invisible Cages
UNIT TWO
4 No Home in Africa
5 A Swimming Lesson
6 Black Men and Public Space
UNIT THREE
7 Best of Bretish Youth
8 Happiness and Wealth
9 Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable
UNIT FOUR
10 Television:The Great Time-Eating Machine
11 Books,and the Imagnation
12 What Did Kids Do before Television Was Invented?
UNIT FIVE
UNIT SIX
UNIT SEVEN
UNIT EIGHT
UNIT NINE
UNIT TEN
UNIT ELEVEN
UNIT TWELVE
UNIT THIRTEEN
UNIT FOURTEEN
UNIT FIFTEEN
UNIT SIXTEEN
UNIT SEVENTEEN
UNIT EIGHTEEN
UNIT NINETEEN
UNIT TWENTY