袁小陆主编的《英语媒体时文选读》是研究生英语创新教育系列教材之选修系列教材的重要组成部分，其重点是培养研究生快速阅读能力。通过本课程的学习，学生能较好地把握英美报刊杂志文章的一般特点及其相关阅读技巧，分析文章的思想观点、篇章布局、语言技巧及文体修辞等，进一步提高英语报刊阅读理解能力和思想表达能力。该教材内容选材广泛、语言鲜活地道，题材涉及社会、政治、经济、环保、健康、能源交通、体育、娱乐、科学技术等方面，目的在于引导研究生关注国外媒体报道，进一步拓展研究生的视野，尽多尽快地获取生活各个方面的信息。

Unit 1 Society

 Text A It's All Innocent Gossip, Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading / 1

 Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make / 11

 Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started /20

Unit 2 Economy

 Text A The People's Banker /28

 Text B The People's Banker /38

 Text C The End of the Euro /45

Unit 3 Science and Technology

 Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health? / 55

 Text B The Groupon Clipper / 65

 Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors? / 75

Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment

 Text A Pathology as Entertainment / 85

 Text B Why C.S. Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy / 97

 Text C Re-writing History, Hollywood-style / 105

Unit 5 Environment

 Text A UK Environment Healthy? Beware the Government Spin / 114

 Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands / 124

 Text C Stop Blaming the Poor: It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet / 133

Unit 6 Health

 Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong / 140

 Text B Have a Food allergy? It's Time to Recheck /151

 Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System / 160

Unit 7 Sports

 Text A How 'Carbohydrate Rinsing' Can Boost Sports Performance / 169

 Text B Cycling Training: How to Use GPS to Improve Performance / 179

 Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit/ / 189

Unit 8 Energy and Transportation

 Text A Not on My Beach, Please / 198

 Text B Power to the People /206

 Text C Station Design: Waiting for the Train /215

Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters

 Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway /225

 Text B Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 /233

 Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters / 240

Unit 10 Education

 Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University /249

 Text B Waiting for 'Superman': Education Reform Isn't Easy /259

 Text C For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web /268

Key to Exercises