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 andthe 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 ADeath Sentence

  Part Two  Reading and Writing

    Text A  CiceroS 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  Culture and Exchange

  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(1fChoice

  Part-our  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

  PartTwo  Reading andWriting

    Text A  Thinking like a Mountain。

  Part Three  Reading and Speaking

    Text B  Joy as Voladoras(Flying Jewels)

  Part Four  Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A  敬畏自然

    Passage B  Letterto PresidentPierce

Unit 8  Technology and Society

  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 Modem 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