与考研命题人的思路一样，编者着眼于《经济学家》、《新闻周刊》、《时代周刊》、《纽约时报》、《泰晤士报》、《英国卫报》这六本国外的优秀杂志，从近几年刊载的文章中各精选出五十篇。根据考开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。本书为其中的卫报分册。

社会类

Passage One The Green Worker

Passage Two Monday Yawning

Passage Three Care to Comment

Passage Four Police Demand Doctors Report Gun Victims

Passage Five Cannabis Use Down Since Legal Change

Passage Six The Voluntary Sector Must Mind the Gaps

Passage Seven Food and Health Firms Taken to Task over Sales Pitches by Science's "Warriors against Claptrap".

Passage Eight Why Some Children Still Need Families

Passage Nine Free Our Data

Passage Ten Saving Britain's Insect Paradise

文教类

Passage One A Nod in the Right Direction

Passage Two Fashion World Holds Its Breath for New Versace in the House that Gianni Built

Passage Three Licence to Skill

Passage Four Schools Told to Tackle Teenage Obesity Crisis

Passage Five Sue the Libraries -- They're Letting People Get Content on the Cheap

Passage Six August is the Cruelest Month -- How Summer Babies Suffer in "Birth Draw".

Passage Seven Billboards Are Sticking around  with or without Glue

Passage Eight Write to Strike

Passage Nine Behind the Mask, the Face of King Tut Revealed

Passage Ten Radio Reborn

经济类

Passage One The Rich and the Rest

Passage Two Who Benefits When a Social Networking Site Is Bought?

Passage Three Thousands of Jobs at Risk in BP Shakeup

Passage Four Solicitors Make Millions from Sick Miners' Claims

Passage Five Corruption Is Rife in British Business

Passage Six Reignites Union Ire over Private Equity

Passage Seven Fox Ruffles Feathers of Rival "Peacock".

Passage Eight The Ethical Way to a Fortune: Adili Floats One Year after Launch

Passage Nine Now Credit Crunch Claims Citigroup Boss

Passage Ten AstraZeneca's Headaches Worsened by New Generic Drug

科技类

Passage One How Trees Might Not Be Green in Carbon Offsetting Debate

Passage Two Mightier Mouse Offers Hope to Muscular Dystrophy Sufferers

Passage Three Human-animal Embryo Study Wins Approval

Passage Four Man-made Chemicals Blamed as Many More Girls Than Boys Are Born in Arctic

Passage Five About a Walk

Passage Six I am Creating Artificial Life, Declares US Gene Pioneer

Passage Seven Power from the Final Frontier

Passage Eight Technophile

Passage Nine A Handy Guide to the Confusing Consoles

Passage Ten End of the Clone Predicted as Research Scientists Create Stem Ceils from Skin

健康类

Passage One NHS Surgery Success Rates to be Made Public

Passage Two Danger to Children from Food and Drink Additives Is Exposed

Passage Three Scans "Prevent Heart Attacks".

Passage Four Depression More Harmful than Angina, Says Study

Passage Five The Great KitKat Clampdown

Passage Six Caught on Camera

Passage Seven Organic Lobby Targets "Dangerous" E-numbers 

Passage Eight Senior Doctors Allege Lack of Evidence on Fluoride Safety

Passage Nine Blame It on the Bacon

Passage Ten New Gene Clue to Arthritis Is Found