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。

社会类

 Passage One Successful Women Put the Brakes on Social Mobility

 Passage Two The Knives Are Out

 Passage Three Tourism Threatens Antarctica

 Passage Four Mandatory Water Meters a Step Closer

 Passage Five Guns and Gangs

 Passage Six Women Climb Career Ladder Faster--but Are Paid Less for Doing Same Job

 Passage Seven DNA Database 'Puts Innocent under Suspicion'

 Passage Eight Counting the Benefits of Flexible Packages

 Passage Nine Women Must Set Their Sights Higher

 Passage Ten Building a Better World

文教类

 Passage One ANation Ripe for a Literary Revolution

 Passage Two How We Can Liberate Every Child in the World

 Passage Three Schools Get a Dressing-down for Cashing in with Costly Uniforms

 Passage Four We Must Value Education for Itself, Not Just to Get a Job

 Passage Five Universities Target Foreign Students

 Passage Six Big Increase in Funding for Schools Does Little to Improve Performance

 Passage Seven Careful Parents Cost Children's Lives

 Passage Eight Parents Will Move or Lie to Get a Good School

 Passage Nine Boarding Helps Children Escape Pushy Families, Claims Top Head

 Passage Ten "Foster Boarding" Gives Deprived Children Best Chance to Excel

经济类

 Passage One Mexico and Indonesia Will Overtake British Economy

 Passage Two IMF to Call Talks on Global Strains

 Passage Three Beware the Financial Hurricane Season

 Passage Four How Market Towns Will Be Saved by the Internet

 Passage Five US Imbalances Tip towards a Soft Landing

 Passage Six Goldilocks Economy Could Foil the Bears

 Passage Seven Comfort at an Economy Price

 Passage Eight We Should Appreciate Financial Engineering

 Passage Nine Investors'Confidence Slumps as Growth Grinds to a Halt in Japan

 Passage Ten Exports Pick up the Slack in me US Economy

科技类

 Passage One A Real Invisibility Cloak?Wizard!

 Passage Two Water Has Been Flowingon Marswithin Past Five Years，Nasa Says

 Passage Three DNA Tests Find a World of Variety

 Passage Four Space Probe Suggests Einstein Was Spot on，Relafively

 Passage Five Breakthrough in Search for Baldness Cure

 Passage Six Scientists Breed Cows That Give Skimmed Milk

 Passage Seven Battle of the Bugs

 Passage Eight"Fertilising"Oceans with Iron May Combat Climate Change

 Passage Nine Every Scrape of Soil Tells a Story for Ground-breaking Scientists

 Passage Ten Irish Potato Famine Gives Clue

健康类

 Passage One Supermarket Brands Are "Danger to Health".

 Passage Two Mothers Who Switched from Breast to Bottle "Were Misled".

 Passage Three Little Glitter, Big Rewards

 Passage Four Health Fears as Polluted Waters Leave Thousands Vulnerable

 Passage Five Late Motherhood as "Big a Problem"as Teenage Mums

 Passage Six How Red Wine 'Magic Ingredient' Aims to Beat Diseases of Ageing

 Passage Seven Cheap Gene Scans Raise Spectre of "the Worried Well".

 Passage Eight Junk Medicine: Acne Treatment

 Passage Nine Stem Cell "Insurance Scheme" Exploits Families, Say Scientists

 Passage Ten Obesity: The Big Fat Lie?