为了满足新形势对高职高专英语专业教育和人才培养的要求，编者特编写了《英语听力教程》。《英语听力教程》围绕体育精神、人文素养和时代主流三个方面展开循序渐进的综合听力技能训练，旨在帮助学生在真实语境、正常语速的听力练习中逐步提到英语听说能力。《英语听力教程》不仅可作为高职高专英语专业的听力课程教材，也可以作为较高英语水平的学习者提高听说能力的良好范本。

How to write down numbers while listeningListening is an interactive process - it is a two-way process. As a listener you arenot passive but active. It is necessary for listeners to know the ways of readingnumbers in different occasions.In English, the comma is used as a thousandsseparator （and the period as a decimal separator）, to make large numbers easier toread. The International Systems of Units （SI） recommends that a space should be usedto separate groups of three digits. Percentage can be read irregularly in some VOAnews. For example, 1.5% can be read one and one half percent~ 1.3% can be readone and three tenths percent. "0" normally can be read zero, while in telephoneconversation, it can be read oh. It also can be read nil, or nothing in some footballmatches.How to get acquainted with set phrases in sportsTo obtain a better understanding of the listening material related to sports,great attention should be paid to set phrases or terms in sports.For example,names of sports may include, tennis, cricket, rugby, etc. Also, names offamous clubs, teams or organizations are important for listeners.For instance,Arsenal, is an English professional football club~ ATP tennis,the Associationof Tennis Professional. The names of famous athletes like Venus Williams, RafaelNadal, tennis players can also help listeners understand the listening materials abouttennis. So picking up these set phrases in sports in the listening may lead to bettercomprehension. 近年来，我国高职高专教育的改革和发展取得了长足的进步。无论是学校数量，还是在校生人数都占到普通高校总数和学生人数的一半以上。与此同时，高职高专英语专业的数量和学生人数也增长很快。为了满足新形势对高职高专英语专业教育和人才培养的要求，我们编写了这套“高职高专英语专业立体化系列教材”。该套教材被列为普通高等教育“十一五”**级规划教材。
本套教材的编写力图体现我国高职高专英语专业的教学实践的特点，遵循高职高专教育“实用为主、够用为度”的总体指导方针，充分反映中国学生学习英语的学习规律和要求，同时体现我国英语教学研究的新成果、新思想和新理念。教材的设计充分考虑高职高专英语专业的课程设置、课时、教学要求应符合高职高专英语专业人才培养要求与目标，处理好打好英语语言基础与培养英语语言应用能力的关系，强调英语语言基本技能的训练与培养实际运用英语从事涉外交际活动的语言应用能力并重。
《英语听力教程》的编写主要以建构主义学习理论为指导，以帮助学生培养自主学习意识、提高自主学习能力和学习效率为目的，严格遵循本课程教学大纲的要求。教材内容涉及学生校内外的日常生活、英语**的社会习俗、世界各地的人文地理知识、语言的故事、有关政治、经济、文化、体育等的新闻实事报道等。内容形式有单句、情景会话、访谈、讲座、故事、讨论、时事报道等。练习形式包括针对听力单项基本技能的选择填空、判断正误、词或词组填空、寻找关键词、判断不同语音语调的表达意图等；针对听力综合技能训练的听写、回答问题、复述或概述主要内容、做听力笔记等。

Unit 1 Sports Fans(1)
Unit 2 Sports Fans(2)
Unit 3 We Ale Volunteers(1)
Unit 4 We Are Volunteers(2)
Unit 5 Home,Sweet Home
Unit 6 Life Always Makes Me High
Unit 7 The Emails Spoiled My Day
Unit 8 To Be or Not to Be
Unit 9 An Unforgettable Get-together
Unit 10 Interest Is My Best Friend
Unit 11 Backstreet Boys
Unit 12 Animals Are Our Friends
Unit 13 Love the World Tender
Unit 14 Let's Go Hiking
Unit 15 Say No to Global Warming
Unit 16 We Are the World
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