Unit 1 Language and Literature

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Protecting Threatened Languages

Section 2 Watching The Linguistic Genius of Babies

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Stop Murdering the Language

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B How Should One Read a Book?

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 论读书

Passage B Of Studies

Unit 2 History and Civilization

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening City States of Ancient Greece

Section 2 Watching Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Ancient Greece

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B The Narmer Palette

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 宋元时期的外来物质文明

Passage B The Wonders of a New World

Unit 3 Who Am I?

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening The Power of Now

Section 2 Watching The Source of Inspiration

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A The Meditations

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B Finding Out Who You Really Are

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 内圣外王之道

Passage B Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

Unit 4 Architecture and Art

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Myth and Legend about Michelangelo

Section 2 Watching The Divine Michelangelo

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A The Sublime Shadowed by the Awesome and the Fearful

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B Michelangelo,Pope Julius Ⅱ and the Sistine Chapel

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 绘画升高为哲学

Passage B The Naked and the Nude

Unit 5 Law and Justice

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Shakespeare ＆ Law

Section 2 Watching A Death Sentence

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Cicero's Legal and Political Philosophy

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B The Laws:Persuading the Citizens

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 法律如何信仰？

Passage B Law versus Morality as Regulators of Conduct

Unit 6 Economics and Society

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Maximizer or Sacrificer?

Section 2 Watching How to Make Choosing Easier

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Why Options Distract Us from Our Main Objective

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B The Point of Choice

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 选择的智慧

Passage B Reflections of a Young Man on the Choice of a Profession

Unit 7 Man and Nature

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Death Valley

Section 2 Watching To the Arctic

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Thinking like a Mountain

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B Joyas Voladoras(Flying Jewels)

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 敬畏自然

Passage B Letter to President Pierce

Unit 8 Science and Technology

Part One Lead-in

Section 1 Listening Scientists on Trial

Section 2 Watching I,the Robot

Part Two Reading and Writing

Text A Public Attitudes Towards Science

Part Three Reading and Speaking

Text B The Modern Luddites

Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

Passage A 为何要争论中国古代科技是否领先？

Passage B Scientism