《西津•21世纪英美文学与文化系列教材:英美报刊文献阅读教程》着力采用跨学科的方法，融入政治学、国际关系、新闻学以及文体学等专业的知识，撰写每部分的导读，旨在帮助读者熟悉和掌握新闻英语的基本规律和特点的同时，拓宽读者有关美国政治、经济、社会、文化以及国际关系和新闻学等方面的知识面。为突出《西津•21世纪英美文学与文化系列教材:英美报刊文献阅读教程》的“中国特色”，主编倪建平还将“国际新闻”分为两部分，突出了“中国观察”，并在正文后增加了补充阅读文章，以帮助读者更好地了解英美媒体是如何报道中国的。此外，为进一步发挥读者的语言运用能力，每课后面的“讨论题”都是围绕课文的主题而展开的。

Part One Headlines/Top Stories
Lesson 1 A Tsar Is Born
Lesson 2 Chile Mine Rescue Completed;Last Miner Is Hoisted to Safety
Lesson 3 Unpluggable; WikiLeaks
Lesson 4 Theocracy and Its Discontents
Lesson 5 Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls
Lesson 6 U.S. Inches toward Goal of Energy Independence
Part Two National/U.S.
Lesson 7 Roomies:Rx for a Split Society?
Lesson 8 The Guns of Academe
Lesson 9 Mormons Using the Web to Control Their Own Image
Lesson 10 In Chinatown,Sound of the Future Is Mandarin
Lesson 11 Taste:The Generation That Can't Move On Up
Lesson 12 A long Tradition of Suspicious Minds
Part Three Politics
Lesson 13 Forty Years after Watergate, Investigative Journalism Is at Risk
Lesson 14 Some Risks as Obama Confronts Congress
Lesson 15 Rightward Tilt Leaves Obama with Party Rift
Lesson 16 The Value of Foreign Policy Victories for Obama
Lesson 17 More Women in Senate, but Seats Are at Risk
Lesson 18 Wall St. Protest Isn't Like Ours, Tea Party Says
Part Four World (1)
Lesson 19 WikiLeaks Founder Said to Fear "Illegal Rendition" to U.S.
Lesson 20 Powerful Quake and Tsunami Devastate Northern Japan
Lesson 21 From Japan's Damaged Nuclear Complex: Radiation and Fear
Lesson 22 G-20 Summit Ends with Little Action on European Debt Crisis
Lesson 23 AI Qaeda's Very Bad Year
Part Five World (2):China Watch
Lesson 24 China's Rise Isn't Our Demise
Lesson 25 China:The Biggest Market Props Up Global Sales
Lesson 26 Will China Break?
Lesson 27 All Quiet in the South China Sea
Part Six Business
Lesson 28 The Japan Syndrome
Lesson 29 Golden Age for Investing in the Emerging World Comes to an End
Lesson 30 The U.S.Soybean King:Can Celebrity Farmer Kip Cullers End World Hunger?
Lesson 31 The Magic of Diasporas
Lesson 32 Far Too Soon to Write Off America
Lesson 33 Oil's New World Order
Part Seven Culture and Entertainment
Lesson 34 A New Eden,both Cosmic and Cinematic
Lesson 35 'Tiger Mother' Author Faces a Tough Crowd at Politics and Prose
Lesson 36 Michael Jackson:The Death of Peter Pan
Lesson 37 The End of Chinatown
Lesson 38 Malcolm X:A Side Rarely Seen
Lesson 39 Christmas Carol Lyrics Have Unique History
Part Eight Editorials/News Analysis
Lesson 40 China's Rise Calls for Cool Heads
Lesson 41 The Birth of the Modern World
Lesson 42 What Do Americans Hate More:Washington or Wall Street?
Lesson 43 Is It Weird Enough Yet?
Lesson 44 Why We All Need a Tiger Mother
Lesson 45 Why E.U.Collapse Is More Likely than the Fall of the Euro
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