本书根据《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》和《大学英语四级考试试点考试样卷》的要求修订，依据学习者的学习心理及语言的交际性特点编写，目的在于培养英语听说能力和英语综合应用能力。在其题目设计中，充分考虑到“词块”在外语习得和运用中的重要作用。听说训练有机结合、题型多样，练习设计环环相扣，由易到难，帮助学习者通过足量实战训练提高英语听说能力。入选材料具有时代性、知识性、趣味性和思想性。录音以标准的美国音或英国音为主，声音清晰，语速依据大学英语四级考试的要求，适合学习者的自主学习。可作为“全国大学英语四级考试”的应试强化材料，也可作为提高英语听说能力和英语综合应用能力的练习材料。

Unit 1 Will Linda Say Yes?

Unit 2 Photographer (I)

Unit 3 Photographer (11)

Unit 4 Asking the Way

Unit 5 Whose Bones?

Unit 6 John Became a Carpenter

Unit 7 Deepest Sympathy

Unit 8 Our College Graduation

Unit 9 I Saw the Thief Again

Unit 10 An Active Girl Regina

Unit 11 Enjoy Your Vegetables

Unit 12 What's Your Major?

Unit 13 Wilt Chamberlain

Unit 14 I Am Not Going-to Pay for Your Taxi Home

Unit 15 A Strict Father and a Kind Mother

Unit 16 Welcome to Our Company

Unit 17 Nancy and Harry's Life

Unit 18 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Moving ..

Unit 19 Samantha and Christopher's Plan

Unit 20 Meeting New Neighbors

Unit 21 A Lecture on Safety

Unit 22 That's How You Cut It Last Time

Unit 23 The Favorite States for American Tennis Players

Unit 24 Would You Mind Telling Me?

Unit 25 Mother's Day and Father's Day

Unit 26 I Had a Nicer Father (I)

Unit 27 I Had a Nicer Father (11)

Unit 28 A Job Interview

Unit 29 Everyone Seems to Be Mad about Football

Unit 30 A Clean Record

Unit 31 Staff Training 

Unit 32 Plan for Summer

Unit 33 Jade Snow Has Made up Her Mind

Unit 34 Food and Housing of Americans

Unit 35 Do You Want Some Salad Dressing on It?

Unit 36 Enjoy the Art Show

Unit 37 Two Types of Holidaymakers

Unit 38 Her Case Is Very Special (I)

Unit 39 Her Case Is Very Special (11)

Unit 40 Daily Schedule

Unit 41 Driving in the U.S

Unit 42 Frank Is Tired of Travelling

Unit 43 When Parents Were Getting Divorced

Unit 44 I'm Calling about the Position of Secretary o

Unit 45 Cut Down Our Fat Intake

Unit 46 Cocktail Parties

Unit 47 The English Patient

Unit 48 Taxi Ride

Unit 49 Basketball

Unit 50 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver (I)

Unit 51 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver (11)

Unit 52 Where Is My Wallet?

Unit 53 Jogging (I)

Unit 54 Jogging (11) 

Unit 55 On the Giving of Gifts

Unit 56 Two Tickets for the Berlin Philharmonic

Unit 57 Dealing with Shoplifting

Unit 58 Sade

Unit 59 Polo

Unit 60 Apartment Hunting

Unit 61 James Was Late for a Plane

Unit 62 Big Stores and Small Shops

Unit 63 I Like the Creativity

Unit 64 I'm in Deep Trouble!

Unit 65 Better and Better

Unit 66 What Is the CAE?

Unit 67 The Thanksgiving Holiday

Unit 68 What a Busy Day

Unit 69 International Committee of the Red Cross

Unit 70 Christopher Columbus

Unit 71 Drug

Unit 72 Air Tickets

Unit 73 You Might Be Interested in Sales

Unit 74 Who Says Honesty Is Dead?

Unit 75 Why Do Young People Have Idols?

Unit 76 The Book on Reserve

Unit 77 Demands for AIDS Testing

Unit 78 Louis Braille

Unit 79 Expensive Wedding

Unit 80 Money. Matters

Unit 81 Why Do People Smoke?

Unit 82 What Had Happened?

Unit 83 The Harvard/Stanford Legend

Unit 84 I Like Music!

Unit 85 A Report

Unit 86 Work

Unit 87 Peer Mentor Program

Unit 88 English Language Center

Unit 89 Credit Card

Unit 90 Call the City's Heat Emergency Center

Unit 91 Coffee

Unit 92 What Gift for Alexandra?

Unit 93 General English

Unit 94 The Generation Gap

Unit 95 Art for Sale

Unit 96 Boys

Unit 97 Nuclear Radiation

Unit 98 A Wrong Impression of Their Own Culture

Unit 99 Liu Xiang

Unit 100 Talking to the Counselor

Appendix: Tapescripts for Listening Tasks and Keys to the Exercises