Unit 1 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

  Part One Lead-in

    Section 1 Listening The Chinese Language

    Section 2 Watching The Hours

  Part Two Reading and Writing

    Text A The Mark on the Wall

  Part Three Reading and Speaking

    Text B　In Theory: the Death of Literature

  Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A　甲骨文的发现

    Passage B　Formal and Substantive Universals of Languages

Unit 2 HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION

  Part One Lead-in

    Section 1 Listening Cultural Diversity and Assimilation in America: a Failure?

    Section 2 Watching Ancient Egypt

  Part Two Reading and Writing

    Text A On History

  Part Three Reading and Speaking

    Text B Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

  Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A 丝绸之路与文化交流

    Passage B The Process of Civilisation

Unit 3 PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE

  Part One Lead-in

    Section 1 Listening Problems of Philosophy

    Section 2 Watching Zeno Paradox

  Part Two Reading and Writing

    Text A What Philosophy Is For

  Part Three Reading and Speaking

    Text B Meaning in Life

  Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A　中国哲学的线索

    Passage B　What Is Enlightenment?

Unit 4 MUSIC AND THE SOCIAL WORLD

  Part One Lead-in

    Section 1 Listening Preference for Familiar or Unfamiliar Sounds?

    Section 2 Watching Arches in Music and Architecture

  Part Two Reading and Writing

    Text A Why Premieres?

  Part Three Reading and Speaking

    Text B Music and the Social World

  Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A 中国古代音乐的文化内涵

    Passage B The Musical Legacies of Antiquity

Unit 5 DEMOCRACY AND LAW

  Part One Lead-in

    Section 1 Listening Rawls and His Theory of Justice

    Section 2 Watching Introduction to Political Philosophy

  Part Two Reading and Writing

    Text A Two Principles of Justice

  Part Three Reading and Speaking

    Text B Equality, Liberty and Democracy

  Part Four Cross Cultural Communication

    Passage A “仁”和“礼”

    Passage B On Liberty