全書共6個(gè)板塊,分為20個(gè)單元,每單元由Text:A和Text B構(gòu)成。所選文章主要是英文報(bào)刊2009年至2011年的熱點(diǎn)新聞,世界政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、文化、環(huán)境、生態(tài)、教育、衛(wèi)生、科技等諸多方面的情況介紹,體現(xiàn)當(dāng)今世界和平、合作與發(fā)展的主題。
本書適合大學(xué)英語及涉外專業(yè)學(xué)生選修,也可供準(zhǔn)備參加英語等級考試和研究生入學(xué)、托福、雅思、商務(wù)BEC等考試的學(xué)生以及英語愛好者選讀。
Part 1 Hot News
Unit 1 Text A Shanghai's Back on Top of the World
Text B Special Expressions
Unit 2 Text A Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake
Text B What is a Newspaper?
Unit 3 Text A Report 1 Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground
Report 2 Q &A:How Did Chile's Trapped Miners Survive?
Text B Where Does News Come from7
Unit 4 Text A Report 1 NASA Scientists Find Water On Moon
Report 2 $79m NASA Blast Finds Enough Water for Man on Moon to Have Bath
Text B Headlines
Unit 5 Text A Stanley Mc Chrystal Goes:After Mc Chrystal
Text B Who Processes the News7
Part 2 Economy
Unit 6 Text A in Defense of Europe
Text B When Is It News7
Unit 7 Text A Debt Forgetfulness
Text B The Importance of Accuracy
Unit 8 Text A Watching Us Save.One Cart at a Time
Text B The Need for Objectivity
Unit 9 Text A Report 1 Stronger Yuan May Not Mean More U.S.Jobs
Report 2 U.S.Backs off in Currency Dispute with China
Report 3 Currency War Risk Threatens Investment Recovery:U.N
Text B Libel
Part 3 Medical Treatment,Sport and Education
Unit 10 Text A Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief
Text B The Editorial
Unit 11 Text A New Beginning in New Stadium Leaves Giants Feeling Relieved
Text B Readers' Letters
Unit 12 Text A The Principal and the Paddle
Text B Analyzing an Editorial
Part 4 Biography
Unit 13 Text A The War on Secrecy
Text B Features and Classifieds
Unit 14 Text A Elizabeth Taylor Dies;Screen Legend Was 79
Text B Sports
Part 5 Ecology and Environment
Unit 15 Text A The Cloud That Closed a Continent
Text B Classifieds
Unit 16 Text A Report 1 Divisions Persist On Core Questions As
Leaders Arrive
Report 2 It's a Deal but Not One That Will Save the World
Text B The Newspaper as Current Events Source
Part 6 Other News
Reference Key to the Exercises
References