《成人高等教育英語2（修訂版）》的編寫充分考慮到了成人學習英語的困難與特點，嚴格掌握英語學習和教學的規律性和教材編寫的科學性，同時編者充分注意循序漸進，刪繁就簡，突出重點，注重操練，以使學生在較短的時間內掌握必要的 、最為常用的語音、詞匯和語法項目。學生通過學習掌握必需的、實用的英語語言知識和技能，具備閱讀和翻譯與本專業有關的英文資料的初步能力，并為進一步提高英語應用能力打下較扎實的基礎。
《成人高等教育英語2（修訂版）》的編寫力求做到集科學性、知識性和趣味性于一體。全書內容豐富、題材廣泛、體裁多樣。包括學校生活、風土人情、科普常識、政治經濟、新聞廣告等，編者尤其注意教材的時代性，注意選輯反映當代科技發展、社會變化等方面的語言材料，便于學生將外語學習和了解飛速發展的社會現實結合起來，由此可進一步提高英語學習的興趣，促進英語水平的提高。
成人高教的英語教學，其目的在于英語的實際應用；而英語教學，應當始終與英語實用直接聯系起來。本書的編排格式與教材基本一致，對課文難點作了更為詳細的說明與解釋，配有詳實的例子，以便于學生鞏固掌握。
Unit 1
Text A Higher Education in the United States
Text B Back tO School
Dialogue Change the Course to Be Taken
word Study
Structure Study Key Structure 1：句子的類別
Key Structure 2：狀語從句（1）
Exercises
Reading Practice Do Children Benefit or Suffer
from Television7
Unit 2
Text A A11 work Is Play
Text B Ten Ways tO Get you Exercising at
Work
Dialogue Joining a Swimming Class
word Study
Structure Study Key Structure l：動詞時態小結
Key Structure 2：動詞不定式
Exercises
Reading Practice Why Stop Smoking7
Unit 3
Text A H0w Americans Get Married
Text B The Traditional Ameriean Wedding
Dialogue Just Right for Each Other
Word Study
Structurc Study Key Structure l：情態動詞
Key Structure 2：被動語態
Exercises
Reading Practice A Peculiar Way of Dating
Unit 4
TcXt A Freddy Smith，Bank Teller
TeXt B For Recognition As Well As Cash
Dialogue At the Bank
word Study
Structurc Study Key Structure：定語從句(1）
Exercises
Reading Practice Occupations
Unit 5
Text A Smart Shopping
TcXt B The Stock Market
Dialogue Shopping
word Study
Strueture Study Key Structure l：定語從句(2）
Kev Structure 2：狀語從句(2）
Exercises
Reading Practice Getting Fat on Staying Slim
Unit 6
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Reading Practice
Why Stop Smoking?
The biggest contribution you can make to your future health is to stop smoking. As soon as you stop, your risk of getting cancer, or havinga stroke or heart attack, starts going down. You will also breathe better, have fewer coughs and your clothes will smell fresher.Research has shown that smoking can make your skin more wrinkly and make you look older, so stopping will help your appearance.
Facts and Figures. Smoking-related illnesses kill 100,000 peoplea year—that is 5 times-as many as road accidents. The good news is that millions upon millions of people in the world have stopped smoking in the last 15 years. Also about 150 large trees are cut down to make 1 acre of tobacco. The average smoker gets through 1 tree every 2 weeks. So if you stop you will also be helping to save the environment.
Hints on Smoking. People who stop smoking at once are most likely to stay stopped. Set a "quit date" in your diary and stop completely on that date. Keeping a diary for a week before stopping, listing every cigarette smoked and why, may help you realize that you do not really need to smoke.
Tell family and friends and get their support. Giving up smoking is also much easier if couples and friends try together.
Create no-smoking areas at home and work.
Remove all ashtrays from the immediate environment.
Where possible, avoid situations where you might be tempted to smoke.
Take up exercise or a hobby to replace smoking.
If stopping at once does not work, try cutting down slowly. You can do this in several ways, for example：
Smoking only a part of the cigarette
Cutting cigarettes in half
Smoking herbal cigarettes
Buying smaller packets
Stopping for one day a week and gradually increasing the smoke- free period.
Collect the money otherwise spent on cigarettes in a glass jar. Keep the jar on a shelf within easy view.
Some people carry an unopened packet with them so that they do not panic when they "give in". This works to relieve their anxiety—the person often finds they never open the packet.
Withdrawal effects are rarely severe and usually pass in a month
or SO.
Notes to the Passage
contribution 貢獻
wrinkly 由皺紋的,易起皺紋
acre 英畝
tobacco 煙草
ashtray 煙灰缸
withdrawal 戒毒（脫癮）過程
keep a diary 記日記
within easy view 能看的見的
cut down 減少
give in 讓步；屈服
Comprehension of the passage
Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
1. A non-smoker never gets cancer or has stroke or heart attack.
2. Smoking is not only harmful to your health, but also bad for your appearance.
3. Smoking is likely to cause coughs.
4. We have to cut one tree to grow tobacco for one smoker to smoke every two weeks.
5. To some degree, we may say that smokers are environment
destroyers.
6. Smokers may easily find that they do not really need to smoke if they ask themselves when they take up a cigarette.
7. It is no good telling your family or your friends that you are going to stop smoking.
8. Remove all ashtrays from the immediate environment because they look dirty.
9. One possible way to quit smoking is to cut down slowly.
10. Exercise and hobbies help you give up smoking.
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