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