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 論讀書 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 宋元時期的外來物質文明 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 內聖外王之道 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 and the Fearful Part Three Reading and Speaking Text B Michelangelo, Pope Julius II and the Sistine Chapel Part Four Cross Cultural Communication Passage A 繪畫升高為哲學 Passage B The Naked and the Nude Unit 5 LAW AND JUSTICE Part One Lead-in Section 1 Listening Shakespeare & Law Section 2 Watching A Death Sentence Part Two Reading and Writing Text A Cicero's Legal and Political Philosophy
Part Three Reading and Speaking Text B The Laws: Persuading the Citizens Part Four Cross Cultural Communication Passage A 選擇的智慧 Passage B Law versus Morality as Regulators of Conduct Unit 6 ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY 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 of Choice Part Four Cross Cultural Communication Passage A 選擇的智慧 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 Part Two Reading and Writing Text A Thinking like a Mountain Part Three Reading and Speaking Text B Joyas Voladoras (Flying Jewels) Part Four Cross Cultural Communication Passage A 敬畏自然 Passage B Letter to President Pierce Unit 8 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 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 Modern Luddites Part Four Cross Cultural Communication Passage A 為何要爭論中國古代科技是否領先? Passage B Scientism