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Lesson One Resources and Energy
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Resources and Energy
Passage Ⅰ Population and Resources
Passage Ⅱ The Middle East's Water Resource Crisis
Passage Ⅲ Water Resources
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Nothing to Lose
Lesson Two Crime and Punishment
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Crime and Punishment
Passage Ⅰ Purse Snatching
Passage Ⅱ How Do Handwriting Experts Catch Criminals?
Passage Ⅲ Death Penalty
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Bush's Speech at Qinghua University
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Angels
Lesson Three Computers and the Internet
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations ..
PART B Intensive Listening: Computers and the Internet
Passage Ⅰ The Application of Computers in Education
Passage Ⅱ E-Commerce
Passage Ⅲ Computerized Systems
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Life Imitates Farce
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
Lesson Four Finance
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Finance
Passage Ⅰ The Gold Rush
Passage Ⅱ Functions of Money
Passage Ⅲ Credit Cards
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: John Kennedy's Inaugural Address
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Big Big World
Lesson Five Places to See
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Places to See
Passage Ⅰ The Highlands
Passage Ⅱ Wales
Passage Ⅲ New York City
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Youth
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs I Need You Tonight
Lesson Six Education
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Education
Passage Ⅰ SAT Examination
Passage Ⅱ Medical Education
Passage Ⅲ Graduate Students
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: The Sound of Music
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs The Perfect Fan
Lesson Seven Business
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Business
Passage Ⅰ How to Increase Business Profits
Passage Ⅱ Advertising
Passage Ⅲ The Dual Function of Advertising
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Gone with the Wind
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs As Long As You Love Me
Lesson Eight Aspects of Life
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Aspects of Life
Passage Ⅰ Tax
Passage Ⅱ Religion
Passage Ⅲ Health Insurance
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Halloween Again
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Don't Wanna Lose You Now
Lesson Nine College Life
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: College Life
Passage Ⅰ College Search
Passage Ⅱ How to Get a Master's Degree
Passage Ⅲ Financial Aid for Graduate Students
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Poetry
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs From This Moment On
Lesson Ten Women
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Women
Passage Ⅰ Women in Southern Europe
Passage Ⅱ American Women
Passage Ⅲ Professional Women
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Elaine Chao: The Most Powerful Chinese Woman in the U.S
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Viva Forever
Lesson Eleven Famous People
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Famous People
Passage Ⅰ William Jefferson Clinton
Passage Ⅱ William Shakespeare
Passage Ⅲ Michael Jordan
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Pioneering into the Future
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Where Are You Now
Lesson Twelve Culture
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Culture
Passage Ⅰ Beijing's Hutongs
Passage Ⅱ The White Wedding Dress
Passage Ⅲ Customary Behavior for Guests
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: My American Journey
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Girl in the Mirror
Lesson Thirteen Science and Technology
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Science and Technology
Passage Ⅰ Cloning Mount Vernon's Trees
Passage Ⅱ Dinosaur Noses
Passage Ⅲ Disappearance of Large Animals
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: The Seventy-Fourth Annual Academy Awards
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Turn Back Time
Lesson Fourteen Sports
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Sports
Passage Ⅰ The Famous Bicycle Racer
Passage Ⅱ The Williams Sisters
Passage Ⅲ American Sports
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Beijing —— an Olympic Dream Comes True
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs I'll Be There for You
Lesson Fifteen Reform and Development
PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
PART B Intensive Listening: Reform and Development
Passage Ⅰ Reform of the FBI
Passage Ⅱ Yucca Mountain
Passage Ⅲ The Development of the Internet
PART C Speaking
PART D Extensive Listening: Definiteness of Purpose
PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Lucky