本书适合修读完大学英语四级开设选修课的学生使用。本书针对大学英语六级和研究生学位英语考试，控制词汇量及难度。材料选自美英主流媒体，均是具有很强的思辨性和启发性的文章，选文时还考虑到非英语专业学生的阅读能力和选修课时的限制等因素，针对性、可读性更强。

本书分为两部分：纸质书籍和光盘。纸质部分选用美英主流媒体报道的重大国际事件或富有特色的经典性文章，光盘部分为时效性更强的拓展材料，如与所选新闻语篇报道相关的音频和视频材料，旨在加深学生对所选篇章的理解，丰富学生对新闻语篇所报道事件的体验。

本书以《大学英语课程教学要求(试行)》为指导，严格按照选修课的课时要求和学生水平的实际需要，强调培养学生的语言技能。本书分为Society，Economics，Fashion，Science & Technology，Spots，Entertainment，Psychology，Figures八个单元，每个单元包括课文简介、课文(包括难点注释)、课后练习、背景资料及报刊语言特色介绍。本文选材精炼，练习设计实用多样，适合修读完大学英语四级并开设选修课的学生使用。

Unit 1 Society

Lesson 1 In Britain, Brown's Take on Organ Donation Boosts New Credo

Lesson 2 We' re Not Luddites. We Just Hate Mobile Phones

Lesson 3 Craig Was a Bright Boy from a Loving Family. How Did It Go Wrong?

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Unit 2 Economics

Lesson 4 Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread

Lesson 5 A Recession, If It Comes, Could Be Worse Than Those of Recent Past

Lesson 6 Eyes on Google, Microsoft Bids $ 44 Billion for Yahoo

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Unit 3 Fashion

Lesson 7 To PRAV and' Chav not

Lesson 8 Lolita' s Closet

Lesson 9 The Mall Had Its Day; Now It' s the Web' s Turn

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Unit 4 Science & Technology

Lesson 10 Who Killed the Newspaper?

Lesson 11 The Big Question: Do We Need a More Reliable Online Encyclopedia Than Wikipedia?

Lesson 12 Karaoke 24/7

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Unit 5 Sports

Lesson 13 If My World Record Had to Go, I Am Glad It Was Claimed by a True Artist

Lesson 14 The Game that Lost Its Glory

Lesson 15 When Sports Becomes a Head Game

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Unit 6 Entertainment

Lesson 16 The Secrets of Star Wars' Success

Lesson 17 7 Stress-Busting Techniques

Lesson 18 Oprah Deal Latest Salvo in Satellite Radio Battle

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Unit 7 Psychology

Lesson 19 When Ties to a Parent Are Cut by the Other

Lesson 20 Shall I Tell You How Awful Things Are? No, Mustn' t Grumble

Lesson 21 In the Mood for (over) Eating

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Unit 8 Figures

Lesson 22 Lessing' s Law : You' re Never Too Old to Be Outrageous 

Lesson 23 All That Glitters Is Gold for America' s Man on a Mission

Lesson 24 For Chinese Schools, a Creative Spark

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Key to the Exercises