LESSON ONE COLLEGE LIFE 1
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 1
PART B Intensive Listening:College Life 3
Passage Ⅰ College Search 3
Passage Ⅱ Interviewing a College Student 4
Passage Ⅲ How to Get a Master's Degree 5
PART C Extensive Listening:Poetry 7
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song From This Moment On 8
LESSON TWO AMERICAN EDUCATION 10
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 10
PART B Intensive Listening:American Education 12
Passage Ⅰ The SAT Examination 12
Passage Ⅱ School Vouchers 13
Passage Ⅲ Medical Education 14
PART C Extensive Listening:The Sound of Music 16
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song The Perfect Fan 17
LESSON THREE THE STATE SYSTEM 19
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 19
PART B Intensive Listening:The State System 21
Passage Ⅰ The US Congress 21
Passage Ⅱ The Houses of Parliament 22
Passage Ⅲ The Federal Institution of the US 24
PART C Extensive Listening:Bush's Speech at Tsinghua University 25
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Angels 26
LESSON FOUR AMERICAN SPORTS 28
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 28
PART B Intensive Listening:American Sports 30
Passage Ⅰ America's National Game 30
Passage Ⅱ The Famous Bicycle Racer 31
Passage Ⅲ The Williams Sisters 32
PART C Extensive Listening:Beijing—An Olympic Dream Comes True 33
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song I'll Be There for You 35
LESSON FIVE PLACES TO SEE IN BRITAIN 36
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 36
PART B Intensive Listening:Places to See in Britain 38
Passage Ⅰ The Highlands 38
Passage Ⅱ Wales 39
Passage Ⅲ Birmingham 40
PART C Extensive Listening:Youth 41
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song I Need You Tonight 42
LESSON SIX ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE 44
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 44
PART B Intensive Listening:Aspects of American Life 46
Passage Ⅰ Tax 46
Passage Ⅱ Religion 47
Passage Ⅲ Medical Care 48
PART C Extensive Listening:Halloween Again 50
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Don't Wanna Lose You Now 51
LESSON SEVEN RESOURCES AND ENERGY 53
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 53
PART B Intensive Listening:Resources and Energy 55
Passage Ⅰ Metals and Minerals 55
Passage Ⅱ The Middle East's Water Critical Resources 56
Passage Ⅲ Nuclear Power 57
PART C Extensive Listening:William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech 59
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Nothing to Lose 60
LESSON EIGHT FINANCE(Ⅰ) 62
PART B Intensive Listening:Finance(Ⅰ) 64
Passage Ⅰ Gold 64
Passage Ⅱ Functions of Money 65
Passage Ⅲ Cashless Society 66
PART C Extensive Listening:John Kennedy's Inaugural Address 68
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Big Big World 69
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 70
LESSON NINE FINANCE(Ⅱ) 70
PART B Intensive Listening: Finance (Ⅱ) 72
Passage Ⅰ Coins 72
Passage Ⅱ Inflation 73
Passage Ⅲ Banking and Finance 74
PART C Extensive Listening:The Seventy-Fourth Annual Academy Awards 76
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Invisible Man 77
LESSON TEN WOMEN 79
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 79
PART B Intensive Listening:Women 81
Passage Ⅰ Women and Sports 81
Passage Ⅱ Women in South Europe 82
Passage Ⅲ American Women 83
PART C Extensive Listening:Elaino Chao:The Most Powerful Chinese-American Woman in the US 85
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Viva Forever 85
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 87
LESSON ELEVEN FAMOUS PEOPLE 87
PART B Intensive Listening:Famous People 89
Passage Ⅰ William Jefferson Clinton 89
Passage Ⅱ Bill Gates 90
Passage Ⅲ William Shakespeare 92
PART C Extensive Listening:Pioneering into the Future 93
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Where Are You Now 94
LESSON TWELVE ARCHITECTURE 96
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 96
PART B Intensive Listening:Architecture 98
Passage Ⅰ American Houses in the Eighteenth Century 98
Passage Ⅱ Carnegie Hall 99
Passage Ⅲ The Architect 100
PART C Extensive Listening:Gone with the Wind 101
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song As Long As You Love Me 103
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 105
LESSON THIRTEEN CULTURE 105
Passage Ⅰ Beijing's Hutongs 107
PART B Intensive Listening:Culture 107
Passage Ⅱ The White Wedding Dress 108
Passage Ⅲ American Food Habits 109
PART C Extensive Listening:My American Journey 110
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Girl in the Mirror 111
LESSON FOURTEEN WEATHER AND CLIMATE 114
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 114
PART B Intensive Listening:Weather and Climate 116
Passage Ⅰ The Weather in England 116
Passage Ⅱ Global Warming Threatens the Himalayas 117
Passage Ⅲ Hurricane 119
PART C Extensive Listening:Life Imitates Farce 120
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know 121
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 123
LESSON FIFTEEN REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT 123
PART B Intensive Listening:Reform and Development 125
Passage Ⅰ Reform of the FBI 125
Passage Ⅱ Yucca Mountain 126
Passage Ⅲ New TB Vaccine to Be Tested 127
PART C Extensive Listening:Definiteness of Purpose 128
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Lucky 130
LESSON SIXTEEN SCIENCE 132
PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations 132
PART B Intensive Listening:Science 134
Passage Ⅰ Cloning Mount Vernon's Trees 134
Passage Ⅱ Dinosaur Noses 135
Passage Ⅲ Early Plant Study 136
PART C Extensive Listening:Declaration of War 137
PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Song Turn Back Time 139