导言

第一部分 经济新闻

Lesson 1 Stock Market InVestors Count Their Losses after a Bad Week Felt Near and Far

Lesson 2 Similarities，but Also Big Differences，between Today’S Crisis and 1930s

Lesson 3 W0rid Weahh Repo

Lesson 4 Nobel Recognizes Research into Economic Governance

Lesson 5 Peter Drucker(1909—2005)：A Thinker for Business Leaders

Lesson 6 Economic Conditions：Trying to Read the Future

Lesson 7 Work on Game Theory Wins Nobel Prize for Two Economists

Lesson 8 NASDAQ：An Electronic Marketplace

Lesson 9 Greenspan Retires and American Economy

Lesson 10 Americans and Their Credit Repots

Lesson 11 On the Job，at Minimum Wage

Lesson 12 Gold Prices Reach Their Highest Levels in Years 

Lesson 13 High Oil Prices and the Wodd Economy

Lesson 14 International Monetary Fund

Lesson 15 US States Fight Back to Protect Rights of Property Owners

第二部分 区域性新闻热点

Lesson 16 East Asian Leaders Form New Group to Improve the Area’S Future 

Lesson 17 After French and Dutch Reject EU Constitution．What Now?

Lesson 18 Israel Withdrawing from Gaza after 38 Years

Lesson 19 After Three Years．Iraq Still a Major Issue in American Politics

Lesson 20 Palestinians Are Described as“Simply in Shock”after Hamas Wins Elections

Lesson 21 Tenth Anniversary of Ethnic Killings in Rwanda

Lesson 22 North Korean Nuclear Deal Called into Question

Lesson 23 Iran Rejects Appeal to Stop Enriching Uranium

Lesson 24 Putin Calls for Changes in Russia’S Political Change

Lesson 25 Germany Awaits a New Leader，and a New Day

第三部分 政治、法律、科学报道、文化等新闻

Lesson 26 International Criminal Court

Lesson 27 Powerful US Lawmaker Accused of Election Law Violation in Texas 

Lesson 28 United States Releases Yearly Report on Human Rights around the World

Lesson 29 Corrul6tion Digs Deepest in Countries in Conflict

Lesson 30 Investigative Reporting，Coverage of Katrina Earn Pulitzer Prizes for US Newspapers

Lesson 31 Exercise in Free Expression：How It Led to Deadly Costs

Lesson 32 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther-King Jr's Death 

Lesson 33 Mars Once Had Moving Plates Like Earth Has Now

Lesson 34 Stem Cell Research

Lesson 35 Climate Conference Opens in Copenhagen

Lesson 36 Shuttle Investigation

后记

本教材以“美国之音”新闻综述节目中的各类国际新闻为切入点，将国际新闻按内容、类别编纂成层次分明的教学单元，不仅整合了当前国际社会在政治、法律、文化等方面普遍认同的新闻价值观，还将各类介绍经济常识的经济新闻纳入“听”和“说”的练习范畴。此外，本教材在编写上还进行了一大创新，即在每课前引用相关专业人士对各类新闻所涉及的事件进行的评论或综述，使学生在学习本教材的过程中，不仅可以系统地了解国际新闻的发展趋势，还能够消除对政治、经济及法律等英语新闻内容和语句的陌生感，在掌握新闻背景知识的基础上，提高对新闻价值的辨识能力和理解能力。