本書為高等學校英語專業(yè)或其他相關專業(yè)高年級學生作為報刊英語教材。本書的選材內容都是目前的熱門話題,主要涉及國際政治、經濟、文化、環(huán)境、科技、娛樂等方面。每一話題又由問題討論、文化導讀、拓展閱讀、選文測驗等幾個方面組成。本書的編寫目的就是通過學習,拓寬學生的知識面并努力增強學生的自主學習的能力。
文旭,西南大學外院博士生導師,國家社會科學基金學科規(guī)劃評審組專家,西部地區(qū)外語教育研究會會長,國際學術期刊Cognitive Linguistic Studies(《認知語言學研究》,John Benjamins Publishing Company出版)主編
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Politics
Text A Lexington: The Democrats’ Daughters
Text B A Feminist Party? Perfect. As Long as It Didn’t Last Too Long
Text C Divide and Conquer: Are the Left and the Right in America About to Go to War with Each Other?
Unit 2 Economy
Text A Solving America’s Inequality Puzzle
Text B Grandeur and Decline
Text C 5 Reasons Why Scottish Independence Would Be an Economic Disaster News Headline
Unit 3 Education
Text A Hong Kong in Hot Pursuit of Ivy League Education
Text B Is College Worth It?
Text C Why Do Americans Stink at Math?
Understanding News Report: The Lead
Unit 4 Art
Text A Why eBay Is an Art Forger’s Paradise
Text B Is Digital Art the Real Thing?
Text C Second Coming
Feature
Unit 5 Sports
Text A Jeremy Lin Takes Sane Approach to His Opportunity with the Lakers
Text B Home Run Derby: Some Sluggers Would Just as Soon Sit Than Swing
Text C With World Cup, Brazil Shows Its Successes and Shortcomings
Unit 6 Society
Text A The Rise of Fake Pot
Text B The Ins and the Outs
Text C Pregnancy Discrimination—Special Delivery
The Structure of Hard News and Soft News
Unit 7 Technology
Text A Has 3D Printing in the Home Been Over-hyped?
Text B Will Graphene Truly Become the Next Miracle Material?
Text C Ebola: How does It Compare?
Understanding the Structure of News Stories
Unit 8 Religion
Text A The Surprising Appeal of ISIS
Text B Three Assumptions About the Middle East That Are Just Plain Wrong
Text C The Secret History of the Middle East
Newspapers in the United States
Unit 9 Environment
Text A Hybrid, Electric or Gas: What’s a Car Buyer Interested in theEnvironment to Do?
Text B When an Electric Car Dies, What Will Happen to the Battery?
Text C Obama, Chinese President Agree to Landmark Climate Deal
News Commentary (Op-ed)
Unit 10 Travel
Text A Brief Encounters: Why I Love House-swapping
Text B Lonely Planet Reveals the Future of Travel
Text C The Great Wallets of China: Think YOU Like a Splurge at the Shops? You’ve Nothing on the Chinese Bling Addicts Spending £500m Here in One Mindboggling Week of Excess Newspapers in the U.K.
Unit 11 People
Text A Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Text B Profile: Alice Munro
Text C The Secretive Billionaire Who Built Silicon Valley
Unit 12 History
Text A D-Day: Why America Remembers
Text B Honoring a Hero: A Lost Purple Heart from World War Ⅱ Finds Its Way Home to Salem Man
Text C 10 Shocking Ways the Second World War Could Have Ended Differently
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Notes:
1. Lexington: is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 61st largest in the U.S., known as the “Horse Capital of the World.” Lexington was founded in June, 1775, in what was then Fincastle County, Virginia, 17 years before Kentucky became a state. 萊克星頓,美國肯塔基州的第二大城市,建于1775 年6 月。
2. Democrats and Republicans: The Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties in the U.S., traces its history back to the Democratic Republican Party (1792) of Thomas Jefferson who favored popular control of the government. Following the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the party’s base was broadened, with representation from the new West as well as the East. Jackson was praised as a man of the people, and his administration marked the beginning of the period of dominance for the Democrats that only ended with the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln, the first successful candidate of the new Republican Party. The slavery controversy and the Civil War split the party into northern and southern selection. The Republican Party is the other major political party of the U.S. It was founded in 1854 by dissidents of the Whig, Democratic and Free Soil Parties to unify the growing antislavery forces.The Republic Party remained dominant in U.S. politics, winning 14 out of 18 presidential elections between 1860 and 1932. 民主黨和共和黨民主黨是由第七任美國總統(tǒng)安德魯· 杰克遜創(chuàng)建,但它的起源最早可以追溯至托馬斯· 杰斐遜于1792 年創(chuàng)立的民主– 共和黨。民主黨以新政結合的政策主導了美國政府的政策一直到20 世紀60 年代的民權運動。共和黨創(chuàng)立于1854 年,是由一群前輝格黨黨員、北方民主黨人以及奴隸解放運動者所組成的聯盟,他們反對奴隸制度的擴張,并主張應該將美國現代化,其創(chuàng)立的動機是為了對抗當時的奴隸主勢力——亦即當時那些試圖控制聯邦政府并擴張奴隸制度的南方富有階級。