本书全一册,共16个单元,内容涵盖政治、经济、贸易、教育、科技、环境等各个方面,引导读者在学习英语语言、提高阅读能力的同时了解时事动态和多元文化。每单元由三部分组成:
新闻知识介绍:**介绍英美主要报纸期刊、新闻的分类和构成、英语报刊的语言特色等。
典型选篇阅读:每单元精选两篇文章。附**单词释义、背景知识及语言点注释、阅读理解和讨论题等。
读报技巧分析:讲解报刊文章写作中的特殊手法,如委婉语、派生词、常用套语、复合词等。

Unit 1 Business [I]
美国主要报纸简介
Text
Passage I Prices Jump More than Expected
Passage II China,NZ to Step Up Pace of FTA Talks
Newspaper Reading Skills如何阅读英语报刊
Unit 2 Business [II]
美国主要大众期刊简介
Text
Passage I Nigeria:GSM-Huge Market,,Poor Service
Passage II Vodafone Dials Up Cost Cuts as Losses Hit $15bn
Newspaper Reading Skills委婉语
Unit 3 Advertising
英国主要报纸简介
Text
Passage I Advertising Firms Fret over Billboard Bans
Passage II The Quietest Revolution in History
Newspaper Reading Skills网络新词的构成
Unit 4 Education [I]
英国主要大众期刊简介
Text
Passage I How Schools Are Pulling Rank
Passage II Union Criticises“Blight”ofFixed—Term Academic Posts
Newspaper Reading Skills派生词
Unit 5 Education[II]
新闻
Text
Passage I Yale and China
Passage II Bringing Accountability and Competition to New York City’S Struggling Schools
Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊中的行话和俚语
Unit 6 Employment
电头
Text
Passage I GM Ends Strike,Tries Health Plan
Passage II The 10 Worst Mistakes Career Changers Can Make
Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊中的长难句分析
Unit 7 Entertainment
标题
Text
Passage I Leaving Las Vegas
Passage II Old-Fashioned Entertainment
Newspaper Reading Skills精炼句式手段
Unit 8 Sports
导语
Text
Passage I Schumacher Wins His 90th Race and Says He Will Retire
Passage II Best Rookie?Yi Has Edge on Favored Durant
Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊常用套语
Unit 9 Foed and Health
消息
Text
Passage I Even with Employer’S Coverage,a Family Worries
Passage II A Holiday Meal Goes Through a Lot
Newspaper Reading Skills词语文化内涵
Unlt 10 Arts
社论
Tlext
Passage I Come Back,Little’50s,Even with the Clouds
Passage II Colorful Notes from an Exhibition
Newspaper Reading Skills复合词
Unit 11 Economics
特写
Text
Passage I We Are Overpaid,Say US Executives
Passage II Hauliers Lead Industry Outcry as Oil Breaks Records to Nudge $88 a Barrel
Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊用喻
Unit 12 Science a删伯曲帅I哪
广告
Text
Passage I GM’S New Fuel-Cell Car
Passage II Cashless in the Hinterlands
Newspaper Reading Skills双关
Unit 13 Environment
英语报刊中的图片说明
Text
Passage I How to Slake a Planet’S Thirst
Passage II Bring Eco-Power to the People
Newspaper Reading Skills英语新闻中的前置定语
OnH 14哪SaS协rib and Accldents
新闻英语的语言特色.
Text
Passage I Surge Raises Memories ofDisaster 50 Years Ago
Passage II At Least 3 Dead in 1-5 Crash;Freeway Closed
Newspaper Reading Skills根据上下文“猜”词义
Unit 15 Politics and Government
西方主要通讯社
Text
Passage I Tbries Call for the BBC to Share Licence Money with
I Mber TV Channels
Passage II Can Illinois’Governor Save the Children?
Newspaper Reading Skills词性转化
Unit 16 Lifestyle
中国主要英文报刊简介
Text
Passage I Sales Hit $2bn as Britain Turns Organic
Passage II College Kids Know Thrifty and Nifty
Newspaper Reading Skills借代

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