目录 Unit 1 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE1 Part One Lead-in2 Section 1 Listening The Chinese Language2 Section 2 Watching The Hours2 Part Two Reading and Writing2 Text A The Mark on the Wall3 Part Three Reading and Speaking9 Text B In Theory:the Death of Literature9 Part Four Cross Cultural Communication13 Passage A 甲骨文的发现13 Passage B Formal and Substantive Universals of Languages15 Unit 2 HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION18 Part One Lead-in19 Section 1 Listening Cultural Diversity and Assimilation in America:a Failure?19 Section 2 Watching Ancient Egypt19 Part Two Reading and Writing19 Text A On History20 Part Three Reading and Speaking26 Text B Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted26 Part Four Cross Cultural Communication30 Passage A 丝绸之路与文化交流30 Passage B The Process of Civilisation32 Unit 3 PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE34 Part One Lead-in35 Section 1 Listening Problems of Philosophy35 Section 2 Watching Zeno Paradox35 Part Two Reading and Writing35 Text A What Philosophy Is For36 Part Three Reading and Speaking42 Text B Meaning in Life42 Part Four Cross Cultural Communication46 Passage A 中国哲学的线索46 Passage B What Is Enlightenment?47 Unit 4 MUSIC AND THE SOCIAL WORLD51 Part One Lead-in52 Section 1 Listening Preference for Familiar or Unfamiliar Sounds?52 Section 2 Watching Arches in Music and Architecture52 Part Two Reading and Writing53 Text A Why Premieres?53 Part Three Reading and Speaking60 Text B Music and the Social World60 Part Four Cross Cultural Communication64 Passage A 中国古代音乐的文化内涵64 Passage B The Musical Legacies of Antiquity65 Unit 5 DEMOCRACY AND LAW69 Part One Lead-in70 Section 1 Listening Rawls and His Theory of Justice70 Section 2 Watching Introduction to Political Philosophy70 Part Two Reading and Writing71 Text A Two Principles of Justice71 Part Three Reading and Speaking77 Text B Equality, Liberty and Democracy78 Part Four Cross Cultural Communication82 Passage A “仁”和“礼”82 Passage B On Liberty83
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