英語報刊閱讀教程[2015年中國人民大學出版社出版圖書]

本書是2015年由中國人民大學出版社出版，文旭總、李京廉、張劍編著的書籍。

內容簡介

本書為高等學校英語專業或其他相關專業高年級學生作為報刊英語教材。本書的選材內容都是熱門話題，主要涉及國際政治、經濟、文化、環境、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，拓寬學生的知識面並努力增強學生的自主學習的能力。

圖書目錄

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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