本书旨在训练学习者通过阅读英语文章获取国际商务知识的能力。书内文章均选自国内外近期出版的原版商务专业教材和期刊,内容包括:基础经济理论介绍、银行业服务、信用卡服务、移动电话制造业、股票市场介绍、金融危机应对、国外厂家倾销、国际贸易支付方式等方面。选材内容既具有专业性,也具有较好的适时性。全书共分10个单元,每单元课后均附有词汇表与注释,方便学习者查阅。每课还同时配备了大量的商务英语句子与短评翻译练习及回答问题练习,以供学习者进行扎实的专业术语及基础语言训练之用。
本书适合高等学校商务英语专业及经贸专业的学生使用,尤其适合高职高专院校商务英语及相关专业的学生使用,还可作为外经贸从业人员的提高英语阅读能力的辅助读物。

Unit 1
Text A What Is Economics?
Text B Why Do College Graduates Earn Higher Wages?
Unit 2
Text A What Is Money?
Text B Who's Afraid of the People's Money?
Unit 3
Text A Banking on Service
Text B Impacts of Foreign Entry on the Domestic Banking Market
Unit 4
Text A Smart Cards:Key to Cashless Economy
Text B Give Me Some Credit
Unit 5
Text A Ringing Tones of Success
Text B What Is Market Efficiency?
Unit 6
Text A Stock Market and Corporate Stocks
Text B The Stock Market and Macroeconomic Instability
Unit 7
Text A Managing Financial Crises
Text B Web Tax Ban Aids Shoppers,Hurts States.
Unit 8
Text A Are Foreign Producers Dumping Their Products?
Text B U.S.Moves to Limit Textile Imports from China
Unit 9
Text A Methods of Payment in Intenational Trade
Text B How Companies Use the Internet
Unit 10
Text A Monopoly in the International Market
Text B Rich Nations Miss a Golden Opportunity to Back Fair Trade