张振中主编的《实用听力(第2版硕士英语)》分听力起步、技能训练和模拟测试三个部分，其目的是为了借助强趣味性的听力语料激发学生主动恢复听力技能训练，在经过一段较短时间的分阶段、分专项的较系统的听力技能训练后，再进行模拟考试的实践，为最后通过听力考试创造条件。技能训练和模拟测试中，增加了应用能力培养的练习，旨在满足提高学生的语言应用能力的需求。

PART I Starting Drills
Unit One
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Where?
Section C "What Did I Drop?"
Unit Two
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: When?
Section C No Time Left for Sight-seeing
Unit Three
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills:Who?
Section C A Warning
Unit Four
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: How Many? How Much?
Section C The Giant Jet
Unit Five
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: How and Why?
Section C How to Use a Bell Properly
Unit Six
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: What?
Section C The First Thing to Do
Unit Seven
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Computation
Section C Schools
Unit Eight
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Contextual Reference
Section C A Small Man with a Fat Stomach
Unit Nine
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Chronological Order
Section C Believe It or Not
Unit Ten
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Condition and Comparison
Section C The Speed of Thought
Unit Eleven
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Negation
Section C A Strange Incident
Unit Twelve
Section A Warming-up
Section B Drills: Implication
Section C A Tale of Two Cities
PART II Developing Skills
Unit Thirteen
Section A Playing Jacks
Section B Acupuncture (1)
Section C An Unexpected Guest
Section D Part A Weather Forecast
Part B Mood
Part C Jade Stolen in Mayfair
Part D Airport Announcement
Unit Fourteen
Section A A News Item
Section B Acupuncture (2)
Section C A Brave Child
Section D Part A News
Part B Safety Tips
Part C The First Blackbird
Part D Railway Announcement
Unit Fifteen
Section A American Indians and Asian People
Section B Can Life Be Any Longer?
Section C The Giant Atlas
Section D Part A Retirement
Part B News
Part C Man with Swordstiek Fined
Part D Veterinary Medicine
Unit Sixteen
Section A Ulysses' Scientific Voyage
Section B Disease-predicting Tests
Section C The Giraffe
Section D Part A Frozen Up
Part B News
Part C Religion in Kochen
Part D An Interview with a Rancher
Unit Seventeen
Section A Gift for Punishment
Section B Eight and Prosperity
Section C Football and Pele
Section D Part A Over Two Thousand Years of Weather
Forecasts
Part B Talking about Life Abroad
Part C Clinton Urges Congress to Take on School Issues
Part D Hijacking
Unit Eighteen
Section A Nonverbal Communication
Section B Newspapers
Section C A Blessing in Disguise
Section D Part A Customs Man Couldn't Believe His Eyes
Part B What Determines the Kind of Home We Live in?
Part C Brain Disease
Part D Zomax: a Pain-killing Drug
Unit Nineteen
Section A Pure Science and Applied Science
Section B Flextime
Section C An Unpresentable Present
Section D Part A Weather Forecast
Part B Couples Then
Part C Loneliness
Part D Health
Unit Twenty
Section A A News Item
Section B Making Reading More Effective
Section C Superstitions
Section D Part A News
Part B Moments That Changed My Life
Part C Cloning
Part D Meet the Olympus u Zoom
PART III Practice Tests
Test One
Test Two
Test Three
Test Four
Test Five
Test Six
Test Seven
Test Eight
Test Nine
Test Ten
Answer Key
Part I Starting Drills
Part II Developing Skills
Part III Practice Tests
Tapescripts
Part I Starting Drills
Part II Developing Skills
Part III Practice Tests