本书精选60篇各类题材的文章，加以难点注解、词汇解释，并按照英语专业考试的阅读题型设计了题目，供读者了解文章内容，提高英语阅读水平，增加学习兴趣。为方便自测，书末有练习答案及文章概要。本书可供英语专业学生或相同英语水平学习者使用。

本书精选60篇各类题材的文章，加以难点注解、词汇解释，并按照英语专业考试的阅读题型设计了题目，供读者了解文章内容，提高英语阅读水平，增加学习兴趣。为方便自测，书末有练习答案及文章概要。

1 High Heels. What a Pain!

2 I'm a Barbie Girl

3 In Pursuit of the Impossible Body Image

4 You Become What You Wear

5 Can't Complete High School? Go Right to College

6 Dear JOUR 371. A Valentine, and Some Advice,

 for 18 Terrific Journalism Students

7 Disappearing Act

8 In Public Schools, the Name Game as a Donor Lure

9 Study Buddy

10 They've Got to Be Carefully Taught

11 Boomers: the Real Greatest Generation

12 Boys Don't Cry

13 I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew

14 Is Online Shopping Eco-friendly?

15 Where Have All Our Heroes Gone?

16 David

17 What's in a Name?

18 A Hideout of His Own

19 "Guy" Envy

20 Married with Problems? Therapy may Not Help

21 Mommy, I Know You

22 In Japan, a City with Designs on Being Different

23 American Idyll, the Dawn of Tourism, with Homer, Church and Moran

24 Chasing Full Employment

25 Ex-Enron Chief Helps Build His Defense, and an Office for His Lawyers

26 How Apple Ate the World?

27 Rumblings of a German Revival

28 Seeing Fakes, Angry Traders Confront eBay

29 Wal-Mart Eyes Organic Foods

30 He Thinks We're Alone Now

31 If Books Are on Google, Who Gains and Who Loses?

32 China Begins Efforts to Curb Piracy of Computer Software

33 China's Next Competitor. South Korea, Then Europe

34 Some Assemble Needed: China as Asia Factory

35 Thanks, but No Card

36 When Colleges Go on Suicide Watch

37 The Latino Small-Business Boom

38 Black versus Brown

39 The Dutch, too Tolerant for Their Own Good

40 The Silent Treatment

41 A Church-State Schism in Spain

42 There Is Life After Friends

43 Where's Suri? Cruise Baby Photos Still Under Wraps

44 Rita Marley "Won't Give up the Fight" for Africa

45 Actress and Spokeswoman June Allyson Dies

46 When Impulsiveness Turns Dangerous

47 Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer

48 Fraught Issue, but Narrow Ruling in Oregon Suicide Case

49 Are You My Sperm Donor? Few Clinics Will Say

50 Oh, Morn, oh, Honey

51 A Drive for Understanding

52 Another Fad Hits the Wall

53 A Pie-in-the-sky Treehouse Made Real

54 Where Did All the Children Go?

55 World Cup Preview: France and Italy Practice Patience

56 Read My Lips: the Taunt That Made Zidane Snap

57 Owen Leads the Way as Players Lay into Sven

58 A Prayer for New Orleans

59 Dangerous Waters

60 Migrants Find a Gold Rush in New Orleans

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