《Step by Step 2000》共分为四册，供大专院校英语专业听力课使用，也可供具有较高水平的其他专业    研究生、本科生和科技人员等广大英语学习者选用。
    《Step by Step 2000》是《Step by Step》的延伸。它仍遵循内容与听力技巧并重的原则，注重选材料的语言真实度和典型性，把重点始终放在发展学生的听力理解能力和思维能力等方面。
    《Step by Step 2000》更是《Step by Step》的超越。它采用全新的听力素材，且更注意四册教材中主题布局的整体性。
本书为第一册，共十二个单元，它主要注重勾画当代社会中的一些宏观变化和时代特征，可以说偏重于广视角、大题材；

    第一册 Book 1 目录
Unit 1 Happy New Millennium!
Part IWarming up
Part IIThe Time ball
Part IIIWord of the millennium
Part IVShort talks on listening skills
Focus on the Main Idea

Unit 2 Net Changes Life(I)
Part IWarming up
Part IINetwork
Part IIIOnline shopping
Part IVShort talks on listening skills
Don't Attempt to Write Too Much

Unit 3 Net Changes Life(II)
PartⅠ Warming up
partⅡ Net changes dorm life
partⅢ Global multi-media giant
partⅣ Language study and lanuage appreciation

Unit 4 Colorful Lands,Colorful People(I)
PartⅠ Warming up
PartⅡ In Brazil and France
PartⅢ Lifehere and there
PartⅣ short talks on listening skills
Be Carefulwith Numbers

Unit 5 Colorful Lands,Colorful People(II)
PartⅠ Warming up
PartⅡ The Worlds sixbillionth inhabitant
PartⅢ The biggest cities in the world
PartⅣ Language study and language appreciation

Unit 6 From Place to Place
PartⅠ Warming up
PartⅡ Villa Rentals
PartⅢ Its the only way ot travel
PartⅣ Language study and language appreciation

Unit 7 Approaching Culture
Part IWarming up
Part IIMuseums in the modem world
Part III Kwanzaa
Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 8 Creative Minds
Part I Warming up
Part II Scientists of the millennium （I）
Part III Scientists of the millennium （II）
Part IV Short talks on listening skills
How Is It Being Said--Formal or Informal Language？

Unit 9 Visions of the Future
Part I Warming up
Part II Working at home
Part III The Times capsule
Part IVShort talks on listening skills
Making Use of Them--Signals and Fillers

Unit 10 For Peace and Development
Part I Warming up
Part IIThe Panama Canal handover
Part III Financial news
Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Unit 11 It's Great to Be a Champion
Part I Warming up
Part II The Women's World Cup
Part IIILuck in the hat
Part IVLanguage study and language appreciation

Unit 12 Leisure Time
Part I Warming up
Part II The new Star Wars movie
Part III The man with the horn
Part IV Short talks on listening skills
Letting Things Go-Speed and Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Acknowledgement