本书特点：
　　遵循“以精带泛，精泛并举”的原则，与精读教材紧密结合，互为补充。
　　选篇经典，语言地道，题材丰富，体裁多样，兼具学习性和欣赏性。
　　注释恰到好处，皆为点睛之笔，帮助学生全面、深入理解选篇。
　　课后练习既有客观题又有主观讨论题，注重培养批判性思维能力。 

1.Fard
2.Cathedral
3.The Drunkard
4.The Duchess and the Jeweller
5.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6.The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die
7.The Value of Working
8.Timoshenko
9.Women
10.The Faltering Family
11.The Pursuit of Happiness: Then and Now
12.Just like Us?
13.Recollections of the Gas Buggy: Footnotes to an Era for theFuture Historian
14.A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose
15.Heroirn/e

1.Fard
2.Cathedral
3.The Drunkard
4.The Duchess and the Jeweller
5.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6.The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die
7.The Value of Working
8.Timoshenko
9.Women
10.The Faltering Family
11.The Pursuit of Happiness: Then and Now
12.Just like Us?
13.Recollections of the Gas Buggy: Footnotes to an Era for theFuture Historian
14.A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose
15.Heroirn/e
16.The Case for Censorship
17.Enemies
18.A New Declaration of Independence
19.Proxemics in a Cross-Cultural Context: Germans, English, andFrench
20.The Broken Boot
21.Marvin Smith: Undercover for the FBI
22.My Father
23.The Tortures of Weekend Visiting 
24.The Most Dangerous Game 
25.Thinking in Packages
26.The Tell-Tale Heart
27.The Affair at 7, Rue de M
28.Brass Hats
29.In the Gloaming
30.The Fate of Thomas Paine
31.Long Day's Journey into Night
32.Androcles and the Lion
33.An Enemy of the People
Key to Exercises