VOA标准英语听力训练丛书是为了帮助高校本科生、研究生和社会各界英语学习者突破英语听力难关，并提高英语综合能力所收录和编写的。本书所包含的新闻题材非常广泛，内容十分丰富：有对反恐、伊拉克局势、巴以冲突等当前国际热点问题的追踪报道，有关于突发性新闻的报道，还包括了美国国内围绕其“爱国法”的延期和对长期处于植物人状态的特里·夏沃是否应实施安乐死所引发的争议的报道。同时还收入了一些关于经济、环保、通信、文学、音乐、电影、体育、医学等软新闻方面的内容，提高趣味性，有助于大家在提高听力的同时，增长知识，扩大视野，加深对各种文化和社会现象的了解。

Lesson 1 French Golden Globe Nominee The Chorus Strikes Chord with Filmgoers

Lesson 2 Top Instrumentalist Steve Vai Showcases Signature Sound on Real Illusions: Reflections

Lesson 3 Football :America' s Game

Lesson 4 American Journalist Gathers Love Stories from the Slavery Era

Lesson 5 47th Annual Grammy Awards Presented in Los Angeles Ceremony

Lesson 6 Eastwood, Scorsese among Oscar Nominees for Best Director

Lesson 7 "Million Dollar" Night at the Academy Awards

Lesson 8 Planner Assists US Brides with Traditional Indian Wedding Preparations

Lesson 9 Travolta, Thurman Team Up for Get Shorty Sequel Be Cool

Lesson 10 UN Effort Aims to Bring Safe Water to Billions

Lesson 11 Terri Schiavo:Dying In America

Lesson 12 Legal Appeals Effectively End in Schiavo Case

Lesson 13 US Court to Hear New Schiavo Appeal

Lesson 14 Terri Schiavo Dies amid Controversy

Lesson 15 Business Highlights

Lesson 16 Author Revives Interest in African American Jockey Jimmy Winkfield' s Extraordinary Life

Lesson 17 Britain's Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles Wed

Lesson 18 World's Largest Passenger Plane Completes Maiden Test Flight

Lesson 19 Mona Lisa Moved to Refurbished Room in Louvre

Lesson 20 Weekly Economic Highlights

Lesson 21 Father of Tissue Engineering Wins Biggest Medical Research Award in US

Lesson 22 Wireless Technology Helping to Shrink Digital Divide

Lesson 23 Ethiopian Human Rights Group Criticizes International Assessment of Electoral Process

Lesson 24 Ethiopia Bans Demonstrations after Opposition Claims Widespread Ballot Fraud

Lesson 25 Ethiopian Police Clamp Down on Growing Student Protests

Lesson 26 US General: Syria Should Do More to Prevent Iraq Terrorism

Lesson 27 Rice Stresses Democracy as Key to Defeating Iraq Insurgency

Lesson 28 US Attorney General Promises to Safeguard Civil Liberties

Lesson 29 US First Lady Besieged by Protests in Jerusalem

Lesson 30 US Authorities Detain Cuban Exile

Lesson 31 Venezuela Threatens to Sever Ties with US

Lesson 32 Islamic Website Says Zarqawi Wounded

Lesson 33 Bush,Abbas to Meet at White House

Lesson 34 US Koran Abuse Probe Finds Mishandling,but No Flushing Down Toilet

Lesson 35 UN and Serbian Representatives Clash over Report on Kosovo

Lesson 36 Washington Post Confirms Identity of Watergate "Deep Throat"

Lesson 37 Rice: US Hopes Iran' s Influence in Iraq Will Be Helpful Rather Than Destabilizing

Lesson 38 Right-wing Israelis Step Up Protests against Gaza Pullout

Lesson 39 Jews and Muslims Clash on Controversial Jerusalem Anniversary

Lesson 40 A Deadly Strain of Influenza Becomes a Terrorist Weapon in Daniel Kalla' s Pandemic