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