Unit 1  LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：Nineteen Eighty—Four
    Section 2 Watching：The Ancestor ofLanguage
  Part Two  Reading andWriting
    Text A Words as Tools
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B The Tower of Babel
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 我的童年
    Passage B The Dignity ofLife and Death
Unit 2  HISToRY ANDCIVILIZATIoN
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：American Indians
    Section 2  Watching：Civilization in the West History
  Part Two  Reading andWriting
    Text A Greek Life-How The Greeks Lived
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B Madness and Civilization
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 郑和下西洋——三保太监的不朽航程
    Passage B The First Voyage--Discovery of the New Land
Unit 3  PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：True Success
    Section 2 Watching：Less Stuff,More Happiness
  Part Two  Reading andWriting
    Text A Two Truths to Live By
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B What iS Enough?The Race for More
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 人生的爱好者：陶渊明
    Passage B Henry David Thoreau
Unit 4  ART AND ARCHITECTURE
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：Architecture and Art
    Section 2 Watching：The Chinese Temples Architecture
  Part Two  Reading and Writing
    Text A Art Is Universal
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B  Buildings and Culture Produce Architecture
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 舞蹈的建筑
    Passage B Hagia Sophia
Unit 5  DEMOCRACY AND LAW
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：The Founding Principles of American Democracy
    Section 2 Watching：American Election
  Part Two  Reading and Writing
    Text A The State and the Individual
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 贤能政府
    Passage B Resistance to Civil Government
Unit 6  ECONOMY AND SoCIETY
  Part One  Lead-in
    Section 1 Listening：The Ice Bucket Challenge
    Section 2  Watching：Should You Donate Differently?
  Part Two  Reading andWriting
    Text A The“Dematerialization”of Society in the DigitalAge
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking。
    Text B Lost Generation：Pain of Privilege and Plight of the Poor
  Part Four  Cross Cunural Communication
    Passage A 给自己一个梦想
    Passage B Integrity
Unit 7  MAN AND NATURE
  Part One  Lead—in
    Section 1 Listening：Plant Life
    Section 2 Watching：Understanding the Natural World
  Part Two  Reading and Writing。
    Text A Natural Selection
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B Nature
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 老子的智慧
    Passage B Remarks at Paris Summit on Climate Change
Unit 8  SCIENCE AND E1)UCATION
  Part One  Lead—in
    Section 1 Listening：TechnologyAbuse
    Section 2 Watching：Technology’S Epic Story
  Part Two  Reading and Writing
    Text A Scientific Education
  Part Three  Reading and Speaking
    Text B  Man or Machine?The Age of the Robot Blurs Sci-fi and Cutting—edge Science
  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication
    Passage A 万世师表，以德服人
    Passage B The Socratic Quest for Wisdom