在过去几年课程建设的辛勤耕耘中，编者已考虑并着手修订此教材，从而使之更加完善，更富有内涵，更具有实用性。但是，其宗旨仍然不变，即将社会知识与语言知识融合为一体，充分体现大学英语学习的学术性和语言学习的实用性。经数年呕心沥血，编者成功打造了一个全新版。本教材由十个单元组成，在内容上有很大程度的调整和充实，选材更赋有针对性，即社会知识和语言知识两者的合理兼顾，从而使本教材洋溢着主题教材的时代气息，同时也提供了语言学习的丰富内容。
UNIT ONE
TEXT A: Protecting Medicine in the 21st Century
TEXT B: A Vision of Health Care for the Next Millennium
Follow-up Activities:
Vocabulary Enlargement & Reinforcemem
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT TWO
TEXT A: Stress
TEXT B: The Ironic Politics of Obesity
Follow-up Activities:
Vocabulary Enlargement & Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT THREE
TEXT A: Antibiotic Resistance
TEXT B: Less Is More
Follow-up Activities:
Vocabulary Enlargement & Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT FOUR
TEXT A：He Lifted His Eyes
TEXT B：A Crowded Room
Follow—up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT FIVE
TEXT A： Standards of Carc
TEXT B：Will the Real Doctor Please Stand Up?
Follow-up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT Six
TEXT A： Cure or Care?
TEXT B：Death with Dignity：The Ultimate Human Right?
Follow-up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT SEVEN
TEXT A：Is Surrogate Motherhood Moral?
TEXT B：IUsks and Risks
Follow—up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT EIGHT
TEXT A：Humanity as the Model System
TEXT B：The Body Pofitic
Follow—up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT NINE
TEXT A： Seeds of Refclrill：
TEXT B：A Trip to the Pharmacy in 2010
Follow‘up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
UNIT TEN
TEXT A：Science as a Candle of Hope
TEXT B：Where Science Meets Society
Follow—up Activities：
Vocabulary Enlargement&Reinforcement
Grammar and Structure Acquisition
Integration
Reading Comprehension
Guided Paragraph Writing
GLOSSARY
APPENDIX：Task Slips
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