英美報刊選讀

本書內容包括英語報刊的發展簡史、新聞英語的一些基本概念和主要特點、閲讀英語報刊文章的技巧以及從互聯網上精選的英美報刊文章,內容包括特寫、社論、國際新聞、英美國內新聞、經濟新聞、科技新聞以及體育新聞。

每一類中都儘量選取能代表該類的、具有典型性的新聞英語特徵的報刊文章。每篇文章後附有詞彙表,除對難懂的和一般工具書不易查到的詞語做必要的解釋外,同時介紹新聞英語的主要特點,並對有關重要事件的背景和人物做出必要的介紹,藉以幫助初學者掌握閲讀報刊文章必須具備的有關知識。同時還有一些練習題,讀者可藉此檢驗自己的閲讀效果和理解程度。

Unit One

Text A Italy's Golden Moment

Text B Hail to the Kings

報刊英語常識 閲讀英文報刊文章的技巧

Unit Two

Text A Jesus-Judas Manuscript Is Genuine,but is Its Story True?

Text B Taking Stock

報刊英語常識 英美報刊的起源、外形特徵和版面安排

Unit Three

Text A Why the Tax System Keeps Getting More Complex

Text B Data to Determine WalI Street's Next Move

報刊英語常識 英文報紙標題語法

Unit Four

Text A Health Care:It's All About the Benjamins

Text B New Secrets for YouthfuI Skin

報刊英語常識 英美報紙的傳統分類

Unit Five

Text A Any Time,Any Place,Anywhere

Text B Putting Tolerance to the Test

報刊英語常識 新聞及新聞要素

Unit Six

Text A Blair-Bush Deal Before Iraq War Revealed in Secret Memo

Text B People Trapped Inside Suffocated and Died

報刊英語常識 新聞來源和世界五大通訊社

Unit Seven

Text A Can Madonna Beat Guy at His Own Game?

Text B Shanghai Surprise

報刊英語常識 報紙的頭版

Unit Eight

Text A At Last,Holiday Insurance That Dares to Take on the Risk of Terrorism

Text B He Likes Bookshops but Prefers to Talk AIbums

報刊英語常識 報刊英語中常見的特殊用詞(一)

Unit Nine

Text A Pesticides Kill

Text B The Third Wave—at a Computer Near You

報刊英語常識 報刊英語中常見的特殊用詞(二)

Unit Ten

Text A“We Want to Teach People to Dream Again”

Text B Silence in C:lass

報刊英語常識 新聞的導語

Unit Eleven

Text A How Cl imate Change Could Ruin Economy

Text B Hot Times All Around

報刊英語常識 報刊英語的句法特點

Unit Twelve

Text A The New Megalopol is

Text B How Population Lies

報刊英語常識 約瑟夫·普利策與普利策獎

Unit Thirteen

Text A Art:Weaving Art and Winemaking as One

Text B International Artists Make TaP Their Own

Unit Fourteen

Text A Is Party Over for Onl ine Gambl ing?

Text B Why Does Private Data Wind Up on Laptops?

Unit Fiffeen

Text A Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit

Text B In Putin We Trust?

Unit Sixteen

Text A What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage

Text B Forget the Second Helpings It's the First Ones That Count

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