UNIT ONE 1Section 1: News Items 1Section 2: A Feature Report 2Section 3: Passages and Conversations 3Listening 1: How to Spend It 3Listening 2: John Lentini''s Loss 5Listening 3: What about This Insurance? 6Listening 4: A Shipwreck 7UNIT TWO 9Section 1: News Items 9Section 2: A Feature Report 10Section 3: Passages and Conversations 11Listening 1: A Talk Between Colleagues 11Listening 2: What Exactly Do You Do? 12Listening 3: Job Interview 13Listening 4: Nonverbal Communication During an Interview 15UNIT THREE 17Section 1: News Items 17Section 2: A Feature Report 18Section 3: Passages and Conversations 19Listening 1: Witness 19Listening 2: Self-protection 20Listening 3: Unlucky with Women 21Listening 4: Wedding Traditions in the West 23UNIT FOUR 25Section 1: News Items 25Section 2: A Feature Report 26Section 3: Passages and Conversations 27Listening 1: A Village School 27Listening 2: A School Teacher 28Listening 3: Computer Use in Language Teaching 30Listening 4: College Education 31UNIT FIVE 33Section 1: News Items 33Section 2: A Feature Report 34Section 3: Passages and Conversations 35Listening 1: A Trip to the U. S. A. 35Listening 2: In the Sahara 36Listening 3: What Do You Think of Britain? 37Listening 4: My Experience as an Explorer 39UNIT SIX 41Section 1: News Items 41Section 2: A Feature Report 42Section 3: Passages and Conversations 43Listening 1: Building Good Study Habits 43Listening 2: Tutorials and Seminars 44Listening 3: Leaving Home 45Listening 4: Parent-child Relationships 46UNIT SEVEN 48Section 1: News Items 48Section 2: A Feature Report 49Section 3: Passages and Conversations 50Listening 1: The Powerful and the Famous 50Listening 2: The Story of Cloth 51Listening 3: A Serious Conversation 53Listening 4: The Holding Habit 54UNIT EIGHT 56Section 1: News Items 56Section 2: A Feature Report 57Section 3: Passages and Conversations 58Listening 1: Adult Day Care 58Listening 2: Treating Shock 59Listening 3: Interview with a Doctor 60Listening 4: Are We Afraid to Be Different? 61UNIT NINE 63Section 1: News Items 63Section 2: A Feature Report 64Section 3: Passages and Conversations 65Listening 1: Modern Sun Worshippers 65Listening 2: I''m Fed up with Living Here! 66Listening 3: My Wife and I 67Listening 4: Living in the Country 68UNIT TEN 70Section 1: News Items 70Section 2: A Feature Report 71Section 3: Passages and Conversations 72Listening 1: Let''s Talk 72Listening 2: The King of Bad Taste 73Listening 3: Dolly Parton 75Listening 4: Show Business 76UNIT ELEVEN 78Section 1: News Items 78Section 2: A Feature Report 79Section 3: Passages and Conversations 80Listening 1: Campus Life 80Listening 2: Becoming an Olympic Athlete 81Listening 3: Global Education, Shared Experience 83Listening 4: Speaking High Frequency Italian 84UNIT TWELVE 86Section 1: News Items 86Section 2: A Feature Report 87Section 3: Passages and Conversations 88Listening 1: A Tedious Job 88Listening 2: Discover What You''re Best at 90Listening 3: Talking about the Next Five Years 92Listening 4: Nuclear Power 94UNIT THIRTEEN 97Section 1: News Items 97Section 2: A Feature Report 98Section 3: Passages and Conversations 99Listening 1: A Photographer''s Model 99Listening 2: Send Andrew to Us 101Listening 3: Ernest Hemingway 103Listening 4: A Sentimental Education 106UNIT FOURTEEN 109Section 1: News Items 109Section 2: A Feature Report 110Section 3: Passages and Conversations 111Listening 1: The Concerns of University Students 111Listening 2: We Can''t Manage As We Did Ten Years Ago 113Listening 3: Foreign Investment in China 115Listening 4: We''re Young and We Get It 116UNIT FIFTEEN 118Section 1: News Items 118Section 2: A Feature Report 119Section 3: Passages and Conversations 120Listening 1: Future Perfect? 120Listening 2: Understanding the Basis of Life 121Listening 3: Medical Developments 123Listening 4: The Consequences of Evolutionary Change 125UNIT SIXTEEN 128Section 1: News Items 128Section 2: A Feature Report 129Section 3: Passages and Conversations 130Listening 1: A Custody Battle 130Listening 2: The Pigeon 132Listening 3: The Duties of a Journalist 134Listening 4: Stay Young 135TAPESCRIPTS AND KEYSUNIT ONE 140UNIT TWO 150UNIT THREE 160UNIT FOUR 169UNIT FIVE 179UNIT SIX 190UNIT SEVEN 201UNIT EIGHT 211UNIT NINE 220UNIT TEN 231UNIT ELEVEN 243UNIT TWELVE 254UNIT THIRTEEN 265UNIT FOURTEEN 277UNIT FIFTEEN 289UNIT SIXTEEN 299