扩大阅读量对于复习考研至关重要。与其将大把时间浪费在其他类型的阅读上，为什么不直接从考研阅读的题源中进行发掘呢？无论是难度、篇幅还是文章的风格、选材，还有什么阅读材料比考题的题源更接近考题本身的呢？本书正是你最好的阅读选择。

本书着眼于《纽约时报》这本国外的优秀杂志，从近几年刊载的文章中各精选出几十篇。根据考研真题的题材类型将这些文章分为社会类、文教类、经济类、科技类和健康类五部分。

社会类

Passage One Frustration Grows at Carousel As More Baggage Goes Astray

Passage Two Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future

Passage Three Women Keeping up Pressure fora Better Travel Experience

Passage Four Parsing the Truths about Visas for　Tech Workers

Passage Five u.s. Database Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers

Passage Six off the Shelf; Opening the On-Ramp for Women

Passage Seven Link Is Seen Between British Labsand Livestock Virus

Passage Eght "Kid Nation" Parents Gave Show Free Rein

Passage Nine Peeking into Cubicles to Find a Wealth of Tech Workers

Passage Ten Abdicate and Capitulate

文教类

Passage One For France, Video Games Are as Artful as Cinema

Passage Two For Some Countries, America's Popular Culture Is Resistible

Passage Three Brazilian Government Invests in Culture of Hip-Hop

Passage Four A Classroom of Monkey Bars and Slides

Passage Five Teacher Dismissed

Passage Six TV Dmmas Rip the Cover off Magazines

Passage Seven Who's a Nerd, Anyway?

Passage Eight A Familiar Set Helps to Create a New Cultural Market

Passage Nine Survey Reveals Student Attitudes, Parental Goals and Teacher Mistrust

Passage Ten Atrmican Culture's French Connection

经济类

Passage One U.S. Automakers Post M~dest Sales Rise in January

Passage Two Economists Are Watchful as Tokyo Ends Loose-Money Policy

Passage Three Enter the Neuro-Eeonomists: Why Do Investors Do What They Do?

Passage Four Income Soars on Wall St.,Widening Gap

Passage Five Silicon Valley Rebounds,Led by Green Technology

Passage Six Study Says Computers Give Big Boosts to Productivity

Passage Seven WorthaLot, but Are They Worth It?

Passage Eight Google Buys a Manager of E-mail

Passage Nine Building a Brand Name,Via Business Cards

Passage Ten Can a Plucky U.S. Economy Surmount $80 Oil?

科技类

Passage One Correction Appended

Passage Two Yahoo Introduces a Site on Consumer Technology

Passage Three Thin-Film Solution Is Closer for the Lithium-Ion Battery

Passage Four Study Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth's Orbit and Tilt

Passage Five Alloy Holds Out Promise of Speedier Memory Chip

Passage Six Wireless Technology to Bind an African Village

Passage Seven Scientists Urge a Search for Life Not as We Know It

Passage Eight Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely

Passage Nine Energetic Cosmic Rays May Start from Black Holes

Passage Ten No Drivers, But a Lot of Drive

健康类

Passage One Inactivity in Men Is Linked to Broken Bones

Passage Two In Science-Based Medicine, Where Does Luck Fit in?

Passage Three In Medicine, Acceptable Risk Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Passage Four When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is

Passage Five Parents Warned Cough Medicines Imperil Infants

Passage Six Teaching Doctors to Teach Patients about Lifestyle

Passage Seven New Schizophrenia Medicine Show Promise in Trials

Passage Eight Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records

Passage Nine Mind over Matter,with a Machine's Help

Passage Ten Young Athletes Try New Coach:The Psychologist