Unit 1 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Part One Lead-in Section 1 Listening: Nineteen Eighty-Four Section 2 Watching: The Ancestor of Language Part Two Reading and Writing 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 of Life and Death Unit 2 HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION Part One Lead-inUnit 1 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Part One Lead-in
Section 1 Listening: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Section 2 Watching: The Ancestor of Language
Part Two Reading and Writing
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 of Life and Death
Unit 2 HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION
Part One Lead-in
Section 1 Listening: American Indians
Section 2 Watching: Civilization in the West History
Part Two Reading and Writing
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 and Writing
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 Parthenon and Acropolis
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 and Writing
Text A The “Dematerialization” of Society in the
Digital Age
Part Three Reading and Speaking
Text B Lost Generation: Pain of Privilege and
Plight of the Poor—Where’s Society Going Wrong
Part Four Cross Cultural 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 EDUCATION
Part One Lead-in
Section 1 Listening: Technology Abuse
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