內容提要
朗文英語學術高頻辭彙Focus on Vocabulary是一本基本研究成果編寫、供中高級英語學習者使用的辭彙用書。目標是藉此幫助學生在學術領域取得成功。通過大量的閱讀文章以及精心編寫的練習使用學習者獲得在學術環境中最為常用的英語辭彙。為了幫助學習者達到新辭彙的全面了解，每一章提供一系列記號義和詞族練習。書中的搭配練習旨在培養學生掌握目標辭彙與其他辭彙的地道搭配。
本書的特色：
·7個單元聚焦不同領域的話題，涉及社會變化、消費行業、自然資源和音樂；
·閱讀文章和辭彙練習重複出現目標辭彙至少4次；
·利用1.9億容量的朗文語料庫編寫搭配練習，準確反映真實語境中的學術辭彙；
·策略訓練（Strategy Practice）提供字典使用技巧、詞根和詞綴信息以及擴大辭彙知識的方法；
·擴展部分（Expansion）提供更多的閱讀、討論以及寫作活動幫助學生全面了解辭彙的意義；
·書後附有練習答案及測試。
圖書目錄
致教師
致學生
關於作者
作者致謝
UNIT 1 Our Changing Society
CHAPTER 1 Technology and Society
CHAPTER 2 Social Experience and Personal Development
CHAPTER 3 The Changing Nature of the Family
CHAPTER 4 Strategy Practice
UNIT 2 Consumer Behavior and Marketing
CHAPTER 5 Influencing the Consumer
CHAPTER 6 Who Buys What?The Family's Influence
CHAPTER 7 How We See Ourselves
CHAPTER 8 Strategy Practice
UNIT 3 Workpalces and Work Spaces
CHAPTER 9 How Office Space Affects Behavior
CHAPTER 10 The Modern Office:Symbols of Status
CHAPTER 11 Sitting Comfortably
CHAPTER 12 Strategy Practice
UNIT 4 Use and Abuse of Natural Resources
CHAPTER 13 Water for Sale
CHAPTER 14 The Aral-An Environmental Disaster
CHAPTER 15 International Conflict over Natural Resources
CHAPTER 16 Strtgegy Practice
UNIT 5 We Are What We Eat
CHAPTER 17 Food Roots and Foodways
CHAPTER 18 Getting Back to Nature
CHAPTER 19 Microorganisms:The Spice of Life?
CHAPTER 20 Strategy Practice
UNIT 6 Encounters with Music and Sound
CHAPTER 21 Music as Social Conscience
CHAPTER 22 Noise Hurts
CHAPTER 23 Ultrasonics:Super Sound?
CHAPTER 24 Strategy Practice
UNIT 7 Animal Nature
CHAPTER 25 Endamgered Elephants
CHAPTER 26 Animals:How Human?
CHAPTER 27 Living Together:Advantage or Disadvantage?
CHAPTER 28 Strategy Practive
INDEX OF ACADEMIC WORKS
APPENDIX 1:WORD TIPS
APPENDIX 2:STRATEGY
APPENDIX 3:ANSWER KEYS AND TESTS
CREDITS
