《大学英语自主听力教程》教程以培养和提高学生实际应用语言能力为宗旨，立足于最大限度地调动学习者的积极性和主动性，将语言知识、文化知识和听力技巧有机地结合起来，并巧妙地将教师要讲授的内容纳入教材练习之中，使学习者能根据自己的实际情况有针对性地进行练习，做到有的放矢，有效地提高学习效率。选材注重思想性、时代性、科学性、趣味性和实用性相结合，内容涵盖广泛。背景知识配有简明、有助于理解的注释。本套教程分为6册，每册重点明确，循序渐进，形成一个有机的整体，系统性强。本书为第三册——《持之以恒》含有青春时尚、旅游度假、广告、交通运输、成功与失败、神话传说、电脑、媒体报纸、住房、商业、友谊、身体语言、犯罪和暴力、风俗和休闲等主题内容。

本书是《大学英语自主听力教程》的第三册，共15个．单元，含有青春时尚、旅游度假、广告、交通运输、成功与失败、神话传说、电脑、媒体报纸、住房、商业、友谊、身体语言、犯罪和暴力、风俗和休闲等主题内容。每单元都包括Warm-up Exercises、Jogging Exercises、RunningExercises、Dashing Exercises、Relaxing Exercises 5个部分，配有对话、短文、相关练习及自测题。参考答案和录音文稿附于书后，便于读者自行掌握并调节进度，高效率地提高听力理解能力。

本书主要供各类大专院校一年级学生及英语自修者使用，同时也可供那些渴望提高英语听力的高年级学生及研究生采用。

Unit One Youth and Fashion

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Lost Youth

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      Fashion in the Life

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Youth and Fashion

   Passage Two     The Lost Lamb

Part D Dashing Exercises   Lifestyles: Low-fat Dieting!

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Song        Superman

Unit Two Norms and Customs

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Christmas Traditions

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      Explanations to Some Origins of

                 Customs

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Tea-drinking

   Passage Two     Inviting and Entertaining Guests

Part D Dashing Exercises  Social Customs

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Poem        A Psalm of Life

Unit Three Advertisement

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Advertisement Slogans

Part B Jogging Exercises

  Dialogue      Hawaii International Spring Film Festival

Part C Running Exercises

  Passage One     Advertising

  Passage Two    Public Interest Advertising

Part D Dashing Exercises   Language in Advertising

Part E Relaxing Exercises

  Song        Yesterday Once More

Unit Four Leisure and Entertainment

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Anecdotes

Part B Jogging Exercises

  Dialogue      At Travel Agency

Part C Running Exercises

  Passage One     Leisure and the Elderly Citizens

  Passage Two     Car Ownership

Part D Dashing Exercises  No Woman Can Do Without It

Part E Relaxing Exercises

  Poem       Fire and Ice

Unit Five Success and Failure

Part A Warm-up Exercises  General "Don't Quit"

Part B Jogging Exercises

  Dialogue      Chatting

Part C Running Exercises

  Passage One     Charlie Chaplin

  Passage Two     Becoming Open to Others

Part D Dashing Exercises   Self-assessment

Part E Relaxing Exercises

  Proverbs and Sayings

Test Paper One

Unit Six Myth and Legend

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Folk Tales

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue       American Holidays

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Why a Zebra Has Stripes

   Passage Two    How the Sky Came to Be

Part D Dashing Exercises   Myth, Folktale and Legend

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Song        Air Supply--The Power of Love

Unit Seven Computers

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Predictions

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      An Interview

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Computer Chip Thefts Grow

   Passage Two     Intemet Users Increase in China

Part D Dashing Exercises   Challenges for a Webbed Society

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Poem        A Poem for Every Day

Unit Eight Crhne and Violence

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Stories

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      Bank Robbery

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Rural Crime           

   Passage Two     Computer Criminals        

Part D Dashing Exercises   Intemet Crime

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Poem       She Walks in Beauty

Unit Nine Housing

Part A Warm-up Exercises  An Introduction

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue       A Room to Rent

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     A Beautiful Building

   Passage Two     Classroom Arrangement

Part D Dashing Exercises   Intelligent Building

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Poem        Teacher's Prayer

Unit Ten Business

Part A Warm-up Exercises   China's Top Nine Trade Partners

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      A Conversation between Colleagues

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Why Is McDonald's Popular

   Passage Two     The New Consumerism

Part D Dashing Exercises   Unemployment and Job Creation

Part E Relaxing ExerCises

   Song       The Greatest Love of All

Unit Eleven Friends and Friendship

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Sayings

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      Talking about Friends

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One.    Building Friendship

   Passage Two     Not Judge a Book by Cover

Part D Dashing Exercises   Friendship

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Song        Because I Love You

Unit-Twelve Body Language

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Body Language in Different Countries

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      The Concerns of University Students

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Subtle Lexicon of Body Language

   Passage Two     Understanding the Body Language

                Makes Things Work Better

Part D Dashing Exercises   Interesting Body Languages

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Poem        Red Rose

Unit Thirteen Media and Newspapers

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Quotations

Part B Jogging Exercises

   Dialogue      Talking abo.ut Magazines and

                 Newspapers

Part C Running Exercises

   Passage One     Newspaper Development in America

   Passage Two    New Media Frighten News~ Executives

Part D Dashing Exercises   The Development of Mass Media

Part E Relaxing Exercises

  Poem        The Flight of Youth

Unit Fourteen Holidays and Tourism

Part A Warm-up Exercises  Chinese Traditional Festivals

Part B Jogging Exercises

  Dialogue      Tourism in Eritrea

Part C Running Exercises

  Passage One     Holidays in Finland

  Passage Two     Thai People and Their Origin

Part D Dashing Exercises   National Holidays

Part E Relaxing Exercises

  Poem        When You Are Old

Unit Fifteen Transportation

Part A Warming-up Exercises The Development of Vehicles

Part B Jogging Exercises

  Dialogue      Mini-conversations

Part C Running Exercises

  Passage One     Transportation and Inventions

  Passage Two     Manhattan Island

Part D Dashing Exercises  Transportation Planning

Part E Relaxing Exercises

   Song        This Masquerade

Test Paper Three

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