LESSON ONE ENTERTAINMENT

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Entertainment

Passage Ⅰ Hollywood

Passage Ⅱ The 72nd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony

Passage Ⅲ A Lecture in a Dance History Class

PART C Extensive Listening:Clinton Confesses to Lewinsky Affair

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Straw Hat in the Wind

LESSON TWO MUSIC

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Music

Passage Ⅰ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Passage Ⅱ American Music

Passage Ⅲ Music in Different Cultures

PART C Extensive Listening:The Path to Power

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs You Are the One

LESSON THREE BIRDS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Birds

Passage Ⅰ Migration of Birds

Passage Ⅱ The Sound of Birds

Passage Ⅲ Introduction of Owl

PART C Extensive Listening:Tarzan

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs I’ll Never Break Your Heart

LESSON FOUR EDUCATION

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Education

Passage Ⅰ Higher Education in the United States

Passage Ⅱ Education in Britain and the US

Passage Ⅲ Education in Canada

PART C Extensive Listening:Commencement Address of Harvard University

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs My Heart Will Go On

LESSON FIVE LIFE ON CAMPUS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Lif on Campus

Passage Ⅰ Housing Options in the United States

Passage Ⅱ Living on Campus

Passage Ⅲ A Talk Given by a Housing Director

PART C Extensive Listening:Tips on Giving a Public Speech

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Baby One More Time

LESSON SIX TRANSPORTATION

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Transportation

Passage Ⅰ Means of Transportation

Passage Ⅱ Parking Meters

Passage Ⅲ Vans

PART C Extensive Listening:Jane Eyre

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Cousin DuPree

LESSON SEVEN FOODS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Foods

Passage Ⅰ English Food

Passage Ⅱ American Food

Passage Ⅲ Lunch in Town

PART C Extensive Listening:Who Is to Blame?

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs What a Girl Wants

LESSON EIGHT HOLIDAYS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Holidays

Passage Ⅰ Holiday in Britain and the US

Passage Ⅱ Welcoming the New Year

Passage Ⅲ Valentine Traditions

PART C Extensive Listening:Hillary—A“Woman Wronged”?

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Sometimes

LESSON NINE SPORTS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Sports

Passage Ⅰ Sports in Britain

Passage Ⅱ Olympic Spirit

Passage Ⅲ Sports in America

PART C Extensive Listening:The Olympic Games

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Quit Playing Games(With My Heart)

LESSON TEN ECONOMY

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Economy

Passage Ⅰ World Trade Organization(WTO)

Passage Ⅱ Review of 2000 World Economic Situation

Passage Ⅲ President Jiang Zemin Highlights“New Economy” in his APEC Address

PART C Extensive Listening:Bush’s Victory Speech

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Save Me

LESSON ELEVEN HEALTH

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Health

Passage Ⅰ Art in Hospital

Passage Ⅱ Conversation between Doctor and Patient

Passage Ⅲ Medicine in Britain and America

PART C Extensive Listening:Two American States

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Born to Make You Happy

LESSON TWELVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Environmental Protection

Passage Ⅰ A Talk in a National Park

Passage Ⅱ Plans to Clone Pandas to Save Them from Extinction

Passage Ⅲ Beijing Bans Coal Burning in New Buildings

PART C Extensive Listening:How to Break the Ice

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Both Sides Now

LESSON THIRTEEN AMMALS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Animals

Passage Ⅰ Gorilla

Passage Ⅱ “Dolphin Talk”

Passage Ⅲ Fun Facts about Giant Panda

PART C Extensive Listening:Resignation of Richard Nixon

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Oops!...I Did It Again

LESSON FOURTEEN YOUTH

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Youth

Passage Ⅰ Youth in the US

Passage Ⅱ Trends in Youth Drug Use

Passage Ⅲ Professional Advice for Young People

PART C Extensive Listening:Think and Grow Rich

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely

LESSON FIFTEEN CUSTOMS

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Customs

Passage Ⅰ Christmas in England

Passage Ⅱ Marriage Customs

Passage Ⅲ Christmas in America

PART C Extensive Listening:New York Senate Race Speech

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs From the Bottom of My Broken Heart

LESSON SIXTEEN INTRODUCING FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES

PART A Getting Started:Short Conversations

PART B Intensive Listening:Introducing Foreign Universities

Passage Ⅰ The University of Massachusetts Boston

Passage Ⅱ Cambridge University

Passage Ⅲ Stanford University

PART C Extensive Listening:Speaking Effective American English

PART D Listening for Pleasure:Pop Songs Breathless