本书内容包括英语报刊的发展简史、新闻英语的一些基本概念和主要特点、阅读英语报刊文章的技巧以及从互联网上精选的英美报刊文章，内容包括特写、社论、国际新闻、英美国内新闻、经济新闻、科技新闻以及体育新闻。每一类中都尽量选取能代表该类的、具有典型性的新闻英语特征的报刊文章。每篇文章后附有词汇表，除对难懂的和一般工具书不易查到的词语做必要的解释外，同时介绍新闻英语的主要特点，并对有关重要事件的背景和人物做出必要的介绍，借以帮助初学者掌握阅读报刊文章必须具备的有关知识。同时还有一些练习题，读者可借此检验自己的阅读效果和理解程度。

Unit One

Text A Italy's Golden Moment

Text B Hail to the Kings

报刊英语常识 阅读英文报刊文章的技巧

Unit Two

Text A Jesus-Judas Manuscript Is Genuine，but is Its Story True?

Text B Taking Stock

报刊英语常识英美报刊的起源、外形特征和版面安排

Unit Three

Text A Why the Tax System Keeps Getting More Complex

Text B Data to Determine WalI Street's Next Move

报刊英语常识英文报纸标题语法

Unit Four

Text A Health Care：It's All About the Benjamins

Text B New Secrets for YouthfuI Skin

报刊英语常识英美报纸的传统分类

Unit Five

Text A Any Time，Any Place，Anywhere

Text B Putting Tolerance to the Test

报刊英语常识 新闻及新闻要素

Unit Six

Text A Blair-Bush Deal Before Iraq War Revealed in Secret Memo

Text B People Trapped Inside Suffocated and Died

报刊英语常识新闻来源和世界五大通讯社

Unit Seven

Text A Can Madonna Beat Guy at His Own Game?

Text B Shanghai Surprise

报刊英语常识报纸的头版

Unit Eight

Text A At Last，Holiday Insurance That Dares to Take on the Risk of Terrorism

Text B He Likes Bookshops but Prefers to Talk AIbums

报刊英语常识报刊英语中常见的特殊用词(一)

Unit Nine

Text A Pesticides Kill

Text B The Third Wave—at a Computer Near You

报刊英语常识 报刊英语中常见的特殊用词(二)

Unit Ten  

Text A“We Want to Teach People to Dream Again”

Text B Silence in C：lass

报刊英语常识新闻的导语

Unit Eleven

Text A How Cl imate Change Could Ruin Economy

Text B Hot Times All Around

报刊英语常识 报刊英语的句法特点

Unit Twelve

Text A The New Megalopol is

Text B How Population Lies

报刊英语常识约瑟夫·普利策与普利策奖

Unit Thirteen

Text A Art：Weaving Art and Winemaking as One

Text B International Artists Make TaP Their Own

Unit Fourteen

Text A Is Party Over for Onl ine Gambl ing?

Text B Why Does Private Data Wind Up on Laptops?

Unit Fiffeen  

Text A Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit

Text B In Putin We Trust?

Unit Sixteen

Text A What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage

Text B Forget the Second Helpings．It's the First Ones That Count

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