《新世纪研究生公共英语教材:听说(教师用书·下册)(第2版)》以听力训练为主，但增添了新的篇目，更新了部分单元，丰富了练习形式，另外增加了口语训练部分，由A，B，C，D，E五部分组成，并更名为《新世纪研究生公共英语教材——听说》（下），以体现培养学生交际能力的意图。

《新世纪研究生公共英语教材:听说(教师用书·下册)(第2版)》：从短小对话到篇章练习，听力训练循序渐进，形式丰富多样。从交通、饮食到政界逸事，内容紧贴时代脉搏。每课一首流行歌曲，寓英语学习于轻松、快乐中。听力和口语训练相辅相成，培养扎实的英语听说能力。经过精心修订，更加有利于英语实用能力的培养。

Lesson One Resources and Energy
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Resources and Energy
　　Passage Ⅰ Population and Resources
　　Passage Ⅱ The Middle East's Water Resource Crisis
　　Passage Ⅲ Water Resources
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech.
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Nothing to Lose

Lesson Two Crime and Punishment
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Crime and Punishment
　　Passage Ⅰ Purse Snatching
　　Passage Ⅱ How Do Handwriting Experts Catch Criminals? Lesson One Resources and Energy
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Resources and Energy
　　Passage Ⅰ Population and Resources
　　Passage Ⅱ The Middle East's Water Resource Crisis
　　Passage Ⅲ Water Resources
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech.
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Nothing to Lose

Lesson Two Crime and Punishment
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Crime and Punishment
　　Passage Ⅰ Purse Snatching
　　Passage Ⅱ How Do Handwriting Experts Catch Criminals?
　　Passage Ⅲ Death Penalty
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Bush's Speech at Qinghua University
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop SongsAngels

Lesson Three Computers and the Internet
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Computers and the Internet
　　Passage Ⅰ The Application of Computers in Education
　　Passage Ⅱ E-Commerce
　　Passage Ⅲ Computerized Systems
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Life Imitates Farce
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop SongsDon't Let Me Be the Last to Know

Lesson Four Finance
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Finance
　　Passage Ⅰ The Gold Rush
　　Passage Ⅱ Functions of Money
　　Passage Ⅲ Credit Cards
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: John Kennedy's Inaugural Address
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Big Big World

Lesson Five Places to See
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Places to See
　　Passage Ⅰ The Highlands
　　Passage Ⅱ Wales
　　Passage Ⅲ New York City
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Youth
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs
I Need You Tonight

Lesson Six Education
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Education
　　Passage Ⅰ SAT Examination
　　Passage Ⅱ Medical Education
　　Passage Ⅲ Graduate Students
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: The Sound of Music
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs The Perfect Fan

Lesson Seven Business
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Business
　　Passage Ⅰ How to Increase Business Profits
　　Passage Ⅱ Advertising
　　Passage Ⅲ The Dual Function of Advertising
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Gone with the Wind
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs As Long As You Love Me

Lesson Eight Aspects of Life
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Aspects of Life
　　Passage Ⅰ Tax
　　Passage Ⅱ Religion
　　Passage Ⅲ Health Insurance
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Halloween Again
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs on't Wanna Lose You Now

Lesson Nine College Life
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: College Life
　　Passage Ⅰ College Search
　　Passage Ⅱ How to Get a Master's Degree
　　Passage Ⅲ Financial Aid for Graduate Students
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Poetry
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs From This Moment On

Lesson Ten Women
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Women
　　Passage Ⅰ Women in Southern Europe
　　Passage Ⅱ American Women
　　Passage Ⅲ Professional Women
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Elaine Chao: The Most Powerful Chinese-American Woman in the U.S
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Viva Forever

Lesson Eleven Famous People
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Famous People
　　Passage Ⅰ William Jefferson Clinton
　　Passage Ⅱ William Shakespeare
　　Passage Ⅲ Michael Jordan
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Pioneering into the Future
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Where Are You Now

Lesson Twelve Culture
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Culture
　　Passage Ⅰ Beijing's Hutongs
　　Passage Ⅱ The White Wedding Dress
　　Passage Ⅲ Customary Behavior for Guests
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: My American Journey
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Girl in the Mirror

Lesson Thirteen Science and Technology
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Science and Technology
　　Passage Ⅰ Cloning Mount Vernon's Trees
　　Passage Ⅱ Dinosaur Noses
　　Passage Ⅲ Disappearance of Large Animals
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: The Seventy-Fourth Annual Academy Awards...
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Turn Back Time

Lesson Fourteen Sports
　PART AGetting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Sports
　　Passage Ⅰ The Famous Bicycle Racer
　　Passage Ⅱ The Williams Sisters
　　Passage Ⅲ American Sports
　PART C Speaking
　PARTDExtensive Listening: Beijing —— an Olympic Dream Comes True
　PART EListening for Pleasure: Pop Songs I'll Be There for You

Lesson Fifteen Reform and Development
　PART A Getting Started: Short Conversations
　PART B Intensive Listening: Reform and Development
　　Passage Ⅰ Reform of the FBI
　　Passage Ⅱ Yucca Mountain
　　Passage Ⅲ The Development of the Internet
　PART C Speaking
　PART D Extensive Listening: Definiteness of Purpose
　PART E Listening for Pleasure: Pop Songs Lucky