《英美报刊选读》内容包括英语报刊的发展简史、新闻英语的一些基本概念和主要特点、阅读英语报刊文章的技巧以及从互联网上精选的英美报刊文章,内容包括特写、社论、国际新闻、英美国内新闻、经济新闻、科技新闻以及体育新闻。每一类中都尽量选取能代表该类的、具有典型性的新闻英语特征的报刊文章。每篇文章后附有词汇表,除对难懂的和一般工具书不易查到的词语做必要的解释外,同时介绍新闻英语的主要特点,并对有关重要事件的背景和人物做出必要的介绍,借以帮助初学者掌握阅读报刊文章必须具备的有关知识。同时还有一些练习题,读者可借此检验自己的阅读效果和理解程度。

1 It was supposed to be an evening cruise to celebrate the completion of one of the Gulf kingdom's most prestigious building projects, the twin towers of the Bahrain World Trade Centre.
2 But even before the ship, an old Arab dhow, left the dock near the Marina Club at Manama there were signs that something was wrong. Jai Kumar George, an Indian engineering consultant who had worked on the towers for 18 months, felt uneasy as he gathered with his friends on the pier, ready to board at 8 p.m. on Thursday. "The boat was oscillating from one side to another. Glasses and bottles were falling down on to the pier even before we left," he told the Guardian.
3 Others were worried that the ship was overcrowded. Raymond Austin, 50, a Briton who works for a concrete company in Bahrain, decided not to board. Isaal-Qobaisi, who owned the vessel, told the Gulf Daily News there were too many people on board and the captain had initially refused to leave the dock. Bahrain's interior ministry said as many as 14 people disembarked before the ship sailed. There were 126 guests left on the cruise.
4 Less than two hours later, as the ship took a sharp left turn less than a mile off the coast, it capsized, flipping over in seconds. Up to 57 passengers were killed almost immediately, including 12 Britons. Rescuers pulled 67 survivors from the sea. Two passengers were still missing.

Unit One
Text A Italy's Golden Moment
Text B Hail to the Kings
报刊英语常识 阅读英文报刊文章的技巧
Unit Two
Text A Jesus-Judas Manuscript Is Genuine,but is Its Story True?
Text B Taking Stock
报刊英语常识英美报刊的起源、外形特征和版面安排
Unit Three
Text A Why the Tax System Keeps Getting More Complex
Text B Data to Determine WalI Street's Next Move
报刊英语常识英文报纸标题语法
Unit Four
Text A Health Care:It's All About the Benjamins
Text B New Secrets for YouthfuI Skin
报刊英语常识英美报纸的传统分类
Unit Five
Text A Any Time,Any Place,Anywhere
Text B Putting Tolerance to the Test
报刊英语常识 新闻及新闻要素
Unit Six
Text A Blair-Bush Deal Before Iraq War Revealed in Secret Memo
Text B People Trapped Inside Suffocated and Died
报刊英语常识新闻来源和世界五大通讯社
Unit Seven
Text A Can Madonna Beat Guy at His Own Game?
Text B Shanghai Surprise
报刊英语常识报纸的头版
Unit Eight
Text A At Last,Holiday Insurance That Dares to Take on the Risk of Terrorism
Text B He Likes Bookshops but Prefers to Talk AIbums
报刊英语常识报刊英语中常见的特殊用词(一)
Unit Nine
Text A Pesticides Kill
Text B The Third Wave—at a Computer Near You
报刊英语常识 报刊英语中常见的特殊用词(二)
Unit Ten
Text A“We Want to Teach People to Dream Again”
Text B Silence in C:lass
报刊英语常识新闻的导语
Unit Eleven
Text A How Cl imate Change Could Ruin Economy
Text B Hot Times All Around
报刊英语常识 报刊英语的句法特点
Unit Twelve
Text A The New Megalopol is
Text B How Population Lies
报刊英语常识约瑟夫·普利策与普利策奖
Unit Thirteen
Text A Art:Weaving Art and Winemaking as One
Text B International Artists Make TaP Their Own
Unit Fourteen
Text A Is Party Over for Onl ine Gambl ing?
Text B Why Does Private Data Wind Up on Laptops?
Unit Fiffeen
Text A Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit
Text B In Putin We Trust?
Unit Sixteen
Text A What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
Text B Forget the Second Helpings.It's the First Ones That Count
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