第一部分 听力练习 1
一 科学与技术 1
Lesson One Humans and Chimps—What's the Difference—Rice Genes Mapped 1
Lesson Two Cloning Trees 5
Lesson Three Fuel Cell Cars 9
Lesson Four Stem Cell Research 13
Lesson Five Hubble's New Camera 17
Lesson Six Testing the Wright Brothers Flying Machine 20
二 健康与医学 23
Lesson One Medical Education 23
Lesson Two Medical Transplants 25
Lesson Three Babies and Intelligence 28
Lesson Four Diseases Spread by Mosquitoes 31
Lesson Five Heat and Health 33
Lesson Six Stress and Illness 37
Lesson Seven Multiple Sclerosis 39
Lesson Eight Mad Cow Disease 42
Lesson Nine Diabetes 45
Lesson Ten Headaches 48
Lesson Eleven Malaria 51
Lesson Twelve Tuberculosis 54
Lesson Thirteen Arthritis 55
Lesson Fourteen Aspirin 58
Lesson Fifteen Cancer 60
Lesson Sixteen Heart Devices 63
三 自然与环境 67
Lesson One The Mississippi River 67
Lesson Two The Hudson River 70
Lesson Three Finding Atlantis 74
Lesson Four National Geographic Explorers 78
Lesson Five Shadow Wolves 82
Lesson Six Sharks 85
Lesson Seven Rio Grande 88
Lesson Eight Population and the Environment 91
四 天文与气象 96
Lesson One Project Mercury Ⅰ 96
Lessson Two Project Mercury Ⅱ 99
Lesson Three Space in 2001 101
Lesson Four Spacesuit History 104
Lesson Five Space Digest 106
Lesson Six Mars 109
Lesson Seven Bessie Coleman 112
Lesson Eight Edwin Hubble 116
Lesson Nine Tuskegee Airmen 119
Lesson Ten Percival Lowell 121
Lesson Eleven Life on the International Space Station 124
Lesson Twelve Increasing Hubble's Power 127
Lesson Thirteen Air and Space Museum Birthday 129
五 城市与建筑 133
Lesson One Rethinking Skyscrapers 133
Lesson Two Walt Disney 135
Lesson Three Chicago 138
Lesson Four Grand Canyon 140
Lesson Five Indiana Dunes 143
Lesson Six Washington Monument 145
Lesson Seven Visiting Washington 148
Lesson Eight Carolina Lighthouses 151
Lesson Nine Memphis,Tennessee 154
Lesson Ten National Highway System 158
Lesson Eleven Preservation Hall Jazz 160
Lesson Twelve Tenement Museum 163
Lesson Thirteen B＆O Railroad Museum 166
Lesson Fourteen National Museum of the American Indian 169
六 历史 172
Lesson One New Era-1920s Ⅰ 172
Lesson Two New Era-1920s Ⅱ 176
Lesson Three 1920s-Black History 180
Lesson Four National Museum of American History 184
Lesson Five 1920s-Conservatism 188
Lesson Six Synopsis-1920—1940 191
Lesson Seven The Lost Colony 194
Lesson Eight Silk Road Folklife Festival 198
Lesson Nine Jamestown 201
Lesson Ten Calvin Coolidge 203
Lesson Eleven Gochise 206
七 体育 210
Lesson One Winter Olympic Games 210
Lesson Two U.S.World Cup Team 213
Lesson Three Women in Sports 215
Lesson Four Soaring 219
Lesson Five Babe Ruth 221
八 战争 225
Lesson One Pearl Harbor to Europe 225
Lesson Two Road to Pearl Harbor 230
Lesson Three The War in the Pacific 234
Lesson Four The War in Europe Ⅰ 239
Lesson Five The War in Europe Ⅱ 244
Lesson Six World War Two—Home Front 249
第二部分 听力全文 255
一 科学与技术 255
二 健康与医学 282
三 自然与环境 351
四 天文与气象 387
五 城市与建筑 445
六 历史 505
七 体育 556
八 战争 578