本书全一册，共16个单元，内容涵盖政治、经济、贸易、教育、科技、环境等各个方面，引导读者在学习英语语言、提高阅读能力的同时了解时事动态和多元文化。每单元由三部分组成：

新闻知识介绍：重点介绍英美主要报纸期刊、新闻的分类和构成、英语报刊的语言特色等。

典型选篇阅读：每单元精选两篇文章。附重点单词释义、背景知识及语言点注释、阅读理解和讨论题等。

读报技巧分析：讲解报刊文章写作中的特殊手法，如委婉语、派生词、常用套语、复合词等。

Unit 1 Business [I]

美国主要报纸简介

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Passage I Prices Jump More than Expected

Passage II China，NZ to Step Up Pace of FTA Talks

 Newspaper Reading Skills如何阅读英语报刊

Unit 2 Business [II]

美国主要大众期刊简介

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Passage I Nigeria：GSM-Huge Market，,Poor Service

Passage II Vodafone Dials Up Cost Cuts as Losses Hit $15bn

Newspaper Reading Skills委婉语

Unit 3 Advertising

英国主要报纸简介

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Passage I Advertising Firms Fret over Billboard Bans

Passage II The Quietest Revolution in History

 Newspaper Reading Skills网络新词的构成

Unit 4 Education [I]

 英国主要大众期刊简介

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Passage I How Schools Are Pulling Rank

Passage II Union Criticises“Blight”ofFixed—Term Academic Posts

 Newspaper Reading Skills派生词

Unit 5 Education[II]

新闻

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Passage I Yale and China

Passage II Bringing Accountability and Competition to New York City’S Struggling Schools

Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊中的行话和俚语

Unit 6 Employment

电头

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 Passage I GM Ends Strike，Tries Health Plan

 Passage II The 10 Worst Mistakes Career Changers Can Make

 Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊中的长难句分析

Unit 7 Entertainment

标题

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Passage I Leaving Las Vegas

Passage II Old-Fashioned Entertainment

 Newspaper Reading Skills精炼句式手段

Unit 8 Sports

导语

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Passage I Schumacher Wins His 90th Race and Says He Will Retire

Passage II Best Rookie?Yi Has Edge on Favored Durant

 Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊常用套语

Unit 9 Foed and Health

消息

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Passage I Even with Employer’S Coverage，a Family Worries

Passage II A Holiday Meal Goes Through a Lot

 Newspaper Reading Skills词语文化内涵

Unlt 10 Arts

社论

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Passage I Come Back，Little’50s，Even with the Clouds

Passage II Colorful Notes from an Exhibition

 Newspaper Reading Skills复合词

Unit 11 Economics

特写

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Passage I We Are Overpaid，Say US Executives

Passage II Hauliers Lead Industry Outcry as Oil Breaks Records to Nudge $88 a Barrel

 Newspaper Reading Skills英语报刊用喻

Unit 12 Science a删伯曲帅I哪

广告

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Passage I GM’S New Fuel-Cell Car

Passage II Cashless in the Hinterlands

Newspaper Reading Skills双关

Unit 13 Environment

英语报刊中的图片说明

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Passage I How to Slake a Planet’S Thirst

Passage II Bring Eco-Power to the People

Newspaper Reading Skills英语新闻中的前置定语

OnH 14哪SaS协rib and Accldents

 新闻英语的语言特色．

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Passage I Surge Raises Memories ofDisaster 50 Years Ago

Passage II At Least 3 Dead in 1-5 Crash；Freeway Closed

Newspaper Reading Skills根据上下文“猜”词义

Unit 15 Politics and Government

 西方主要通讯社

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Passage I Tbries Call for the BBC to Share Licence Money with

I Mber TV Channels

Passage II Can Illinois’Governor Save the Children?

 Newspaper Reading Skills词性转化

Unit 16 Lifestyle

中国主要英文报刊简介

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Passage I Sales Hit $2bn as Britain Turns Organic

Passage II College Kids Know Thrifty and Nifty

 Newspaper Reading Skills借代