本书精选了八十余篇近期英美**权威报刊的文章,分为政坛风云、名人轶事、科技之光、文化聚焦、人生启航、经济动向、社会掠影、卫生与健康和缤纷话题等九个部分,为读者提供内容新颖、题材广泛、语言现代的读物,以使读者开阔视野,提高语言技能,增强思维能力,获取大量的新知识、新信息。为提高阅读效果,本书为每篇文章配备了练习,并在书后附有答案。此外,为帮助读者洞悉世界*新动态,书中还附加了“趣味阅读”。
本书可以作为高等院校的本科生和研究生教材,也适用于具有同等水平的自学者使用。

一、政坛风云
1.Transcript of Debate between Bush and Kerry
2.An Interview with Bill Clinton
3.What Happens to the Losing Team?
4.The Shoe Bomber’s World
5.The Necessity of Travel
6.10 Questions for Jimmy Carter
7.Ask How
8.The Nanking ’Incident’ Flap
二、名人轶事
9.The Merry Divorcees of Windsor
10.What We’ll Do for Dad on His 91st Birthday
11.Too Hip for the Holidays
12.“I’ve Got a Problem”
13.Hillary in Her Own Words
14.“I Had to Ask Myself whether I would Stay Married”
15.Presidents of Leadership,Strength and Accomplishment (1)
16.Presidents of Leadership,Strength and Accomplishment (2)
三、科技之光
17.Cloning,Continued
18.Race to Find New Cures
19.Could Robots Take Over the World?
20.Driving by Wire
21.Earth Simulator
22.Europe Roasts.Is It Global Warming?
23.Antarctica is Getting Warmer
24.How Long will the Oil Age Last?
25.Murder of the Bounty:The Sea’s Empty
26.Brace Yourself!Here Comes EinStein’s Year
27.Blogs,a New Medium
四、文化聚集
28.A Subway,Not a Shelter
29.You are the Shopper and the Cashier
30.Credit Card
31.In London,a Very British Bid for the 2012 Games
32.London Overview
33.Arthur Miller:Death of a Legend
34.The Art of Betting $100 Million
35.Negro Spirituals Endure
36.Liberal Bible Thumping
五、人生启航
37.A Start in Life
38.Nature vs.Nurture
39.Care for the Depressed Kids
40.When Little Kids Take Big Tests
41.Degrees of Stress
42.Student Rankings? Computers Flunk,and College Plans are in Chaos
43.Where Have You gone,Joe DiMaggio?
六、经济动向
44.What does Alan Greenspan Want?
45.Alan Greenspan’s Crystal Ball
46.Capitalism and Its Troubles
47.It Pays to Be a Good Listener
48.How to Be a Good Leader
49.Compromise Needed
50.Tougher Year Lies Ahead for OPEC
七、社会掠影
51.Class in America
52.The Attributes of Class
53.The American Ideal
54.Reaching the New Mainstream
55.Choosing a Job is Not Just about the Money
56.Food for Thought
57.Working in the Public Interest for 40 Years
58.The Stock-Option Culture
59.Does Divorce Hurt Kids?
60.Marriage and Politics
61.When Children Feel Rejected
62.The Rules for Modern Weddings
63.Happy Marriage Rewards
八、卫生与健康
64.Stroke of Luck
65.The Facts about Cholesterol
66.Women,Take Heart:Protect Yourself from Heart Disease
67.How Come We Can’t Cure the Cold?
68.Up in Smoke
69.Of Brains and Breast Milk
70.Should We all Be Vegetarians?
71.The Obesity Epidemic
72.Food Nourished and Civilizes Us
73.The Diet of Our Ancestors
74.Diagnose and Strengthen Your Health with Aculife
九、缤纷话题
75.When M.D.s Mess Up
76.A Doctor’s Duty
77.A Sick Health-Care System
78.Skyscrapers,Going Up and Up
79.Giving the Decaying Brooklyn Waterfront a Makeover
80.Force of Nature
81.Dammed If You Do
82.Why did She Do it?
83.Why Women Have to Work