《研究生基礎英語（2）》根據國家教委頒布的《非英語專業研究生英語教學大綱（試行稿）》編寫，供非英語專業碩士研究生、工商管理碩士（MBA）研究生和在職研究生英語教學使用。
《研究生基礎英語（2）》分兩冊。第Ⅱ冊在第Ⅰ冊的基礎上編寫，也分10個單元，各單元都有作者介紹、課文、生詞、詞組、注釋、練習、閱讀材料及其練習等。課文和閱讀材料選自英美或當今報刊雜志，練習包括：問題、討論題、詞匯、填空、改錯、翻譯、應用文寫作、閱讀理解等。
《研究生基礎英語（2）》還附有“練習參考答案”，供讀者參考
UNIT ONE
Text：The Glorious Messiness of English
Further Reading：An English-Speaking World
UNTI TWO
Text：A season for Hymning and Hawing
Further Reading：Fall Comes in on Roller Skates
UNIT THREE
Text：Farewell，My Unlovely
Further Reading：The City
UNIT FOUR
Text：Music in the Modern World
Further Reading：What to Listen for im Music
UNIT FIVE
Text：Our picture of the Universe
Further Reading：Roaming the Cosmos
UNIT SIX
Text：The Substitute Teacher
Further Reading：My Posse Don't Do Homework
UNIT SEVEN
Text：Allaying the Fear of the New Technology
Further Reading：Staying Afloat
UNTI EIGHT
Text：What Your Body Language Says About You
Further Reading：How to Read Body Language
UNIT NINE
Text：THE Youngest and Brightest Thing Around
Further Reading：New Babies Are Smarter than You Think
UNIT TEN
Text：2001：The World Our Students Will Enter
Further Reading：A Question of Degrees：New Possibilities for Higher Education
APPENDIX Ⅰ
Vocabulary
APPENDIX Ⅱ
Phrases and Expressions
APPENDIX Ⅲ
Key to Exercises
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