为了满足不同水平的英语学习者的训练需要，编者编写了《大学英语分级听力教程》，希望能通过简明务实的方式，帮助学习者有效提高英语新闻听力水平。

全书分为初级、中级和高级三个部分。初级部分所收录的二十课内容均出自美国之音特别新闻报道，内容涉及日常生活、健康、教育、金融、政治、军事等，题材广泛；中级部分有二十八课，均为标准语速的新闻报道，内容涉及政治时事、经济、体育、军事等；高级部分共十四课，前九课为各国政要的演讲，后五课为综合新闻。

初级听力

Lesson 1 Education Programs for International Students

Lesson 2 American Students Get Help with Schoolwork from Far Away

Lesson 3 International Student Handbook

Lesson 4 UN 60th Anniversary

Lesson 5 Work on“Game Theory”wins Nobel Prize for Two Economists

Lesson 6 NASDAQ：An Electronic Marketplace

Lesson 7 OECD Says Adult Schooling Should not Be Limited to Highly Skilled

Lesson 8 Risk to a Popular Banana Shows Need to Grow Other Kinds

Lesson 9 College Enhance TCsts

Lesson 10 World Bank and IMF Approve Debt Relief for Poor Nations

Lesson 11 Changes in the Credit Card Industry

Lesson 12 Wavs to Save Money

Lesson 13 Starting Young to Build a Healthy Heart

Lesson 14 UN Report Warns of Risk to Goal to Cut Poverty by 2015

Lesson 15 Simple Ways to Keep Food Cool

Lesson 16 Teacher or Tutor?For Kids in Rochester,NY,the Answer May Be One in the Same

Lesson 17 Aid Plan for Africa

Lesson 18 North Korean Nuclear Deal Called into Question

Lesson 19 An Up-and-down week for Peace in Four Conflicts

Lesson 20 High Oil Prices and the Worid Economy

中级听力

Lesson 1 Pope's Message to Youth Festival

Lesson 2 England Wjns the Ashes

Lesson 3 Japan's Postal Refornqs

Lesson 4 Two Major American Airlines Face Bankruptcy

Lesson 5 Maradona and the“Hand of God”

Lesson 6 Worid Trade Talks Failing

Lesson 7 International Stem Cell Bank Open

Lesson 8 Sydney Bans the Word Mate

Lesson 9 Hopes and Fears for Shuttle Discovery

Lesson 10 Israel Begins Gaza Strip Pull-Out

Lesson 11 New York Subway Search

Lesson 12 Internet Address Argument

Lesson 13 Egyptians,Palestinians Say Some Gaza Border Issues Unresolved

Lesson 14 Worid Bank,IMF Endorse ＄40 Billion Debt Relief for Poorest Countries

Lesson 15 Calculating the Cost of Hurricane Katrina

Lesson 16 International Air Show to Bring Russia More Than ＄1 Billion

Lesson 17 Earthquake Death Toll Rises in Indian Kashmir

Lesson 18 India and Pakistan Discuss Terrorism and Prisoner Exchange

Lesson 19 Fate of Iraqi Constitution Hinges on Province Where Balloting under Review

Lesson 20 Almost Half of Asian Children Live in Poverty

Lesson 21 Working Hours Declining in Asia

Lesson 22 Bush Meets Chinese Leader on Sidelines of UN Summit

Lesson 23 Commission Says IRA Totally Disarmed

Lesson 24 US Blasts Iran for Nuclear Policies,Support of Terrorism

Lesson 25 EU Expands Anti-Bird Flu Measures

Lesson 26 Hurricane Evacuees Begin Returning Home

Lesson 27 Health Care Workers Face Tough Challenges in New Orleans

Lesson 28 US,South Korea to Discuss North Korea Nuclear Issue

高级听力

Lesson 1 Canadian PM Paul Martin Addresses to United Nations

Lesson 2 John Howard Addresses to the United Nations

Lesson 3 Kofi Annan Secretary-General's Address to the 2005 world Summit

Lesson 4 Pay 7ribute to the Greatest TV Anchors

Lesson 5 Introductlon of President HU Jintao

Lesson 6 Tony Blair's Speech on Returning to 10 Downing Street

Lesson 7 US President's Speech on American Economic Future

Lesson 8 US President's Speech on Independence Day

Lesson 9 US President's Speech on Many Key Priorities of the American People

Lesson 10 Miscellaneous News

Lesson 11 MiSCellaneous News

Lesson 12 Miscellaneous News

Lesson 13 MiSCellaneous NeWS

Lesson 14 Miscellancous News

附录一 听力录音文本

附录二 练习参考答案