张民伦主编的《英语听力入门3000(附光盘3学生用书)》坚持“延伸”与“超越”的基本准则。就总体目标而言，《听力入门3000》更加着力于追求听力教学中“知识”与“技能”的平衡性，试图将两者之间的关系处理得更加自然合理。在《听力入门3000》中，包括数字快速反应、要点选择、关键词速记、纲要拟列以及归纳小结等一系列听力单项或综合基本技能训练的分量会有所增加，训练策略也有所改变。就内容而言，有将近一半兼具时代特征和典型价值的新鲜篇章注入到了《听力入门3000》之中。

Unit 1 World News: International Relations

 Part I Wanning up

 Part II News reports

 Part III Anti-piracy mission

 Part IV Speeches

Unit 2 World News: Earth and Environment

 Part I Wanning up

 Part II News reports

 Part III City recycling

 Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 3 World News: Economic Developments

 Part I Warming up

 Part II News reports

 Part III Voice mail may cost company's business

 Part IV Business jargon

Unit 4 World News: Up in Space

 Part I Warming up

 Part II News reports

 Part III Returning to the Moon

 Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 5 New Explorations in Food and Medicine

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Eating right for good health

 Part III Medical emergency 911

 Part IV Keeping the country healthy

Unit 6 Breakthroughs in Science and Technology

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Human genome project

 Part III Latest breakthroughs in technology

 Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 7 Future of Communication

 Part I Warming up

 Part II New ways to communicate

 Part III Digital McLuhan

 Part IV Technical jargon

Unit 8 New Ideas, New Architecture

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Eco-conscious construction

 Part III Tomorrow's house

 Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 9 Ways to Travel

 Part I Wanning up

 Part II Public transportation

 Part III Cross the Channel

 Part IV Southwest

Unit 10 Love and Hate of Oil

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Oil reserves and parking places

 Part III A motor city breakthrough: the electric car

 Part IV Clean air cars

Unit 11 A Fast Growing Economy: Tourism

 Part I Warming up

 Part II Welcome to China

 Part III New Seven Wonders of the World

 Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 12 Review

 A. Revolutionary car

 B. Fox Hollow golf course

 C. Friends reunited

 D. Beware hackers!

 E. Housing problems

 F. The future of the phone

Vocabulary

Acknowledgements