内容简介
全书共10个板块，分为20单元，每单元由Text A和Text B构成。所选文章主要是英文报刊2005年至2006年的世界政治、经济、文化、环境保护、教育、医疗等方面的社会情况介绍，体现当今世界和平、合作与发展的主题。
本书适合大学英语及涉外专业学生选修，也可供参加英语等级考试和研究生入学、托福、雅思、商务BEC等考试的学生及英语爱好者选读。
目录
PART 1 Hot News
Unit 1
Text A A Toast to Torino, with a Last Bicerin
Text B How to Read a Newspaper？
Unit 2
Text A The Race Against Avian Flu
Text B What Is a Newspaper?
PART 2 Environmental Protection
Unit 3
Text A China Notes Costs of "Grave" Pollution
Text B Where Does News Come from?
Unit 4
Text A Global Warming Threatens Deserts
Text B Headlines
Unit 5
Text A A Sinking Feeling
Text B Who Processes the News?
PART 3 Cloned Stem-cell Research
Unit 6
Text A Clone Aid
Text B When Is It News?
Unit 7
Text A Ancient DNA Yields Clues to the Puzzle of European Origins
Text B The Importance of Accuracy
PART 4 Health and Travel
Unit 8
Text A So, You Want to Live for Ever？
Text B The Need for Objectivity
Unit 9
Text A Out of the Comfort Zone
Text B Libel
PART 5 Social Problems
Unit 10
Text A Are You Safe from Online Crooks？
Text B The Editorial
Unit 11
Text A ID Thieves' New Tricks
Text B Readers' Letters
PART 6 Education and Immigration
Unit 12
Text A Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church T
Text B Analyzing an Editorial
Unit 13
Text A Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal
Text B Features and Classifieds
PART 7 Science and Information Technology
Unit 14
Text A In the Kitchen
Text B Sports
Unit 15
Text A In Search of the Real Google
Text B Classifieds
PART 8 Economy
Unit 16
Text A Is Ford Running on Empty？
Text B The Newspaper as Current Events Source
PART 9 Politics and Biography
Unit 17
Text A Senate Approves Lobbying Limits by Wide Mar
Text B Learning from Newspaper Graphs
Unit 18
Text A Voice of Courage
Text B Using the Newspaper in a Writing Report
PART 10 Art and Culture
Unit 19
Text A Can This Man Save the Movies？（Again？）
Text B Newspaper Careers
Unit 20
Text A The Competition Was Thick and Growing
Text B Special Expressions
Reference Key to the Exdrcises
