《考研英语阅读题源Ⅱ》系列结合读者对于前两版的反馈意见，以及近年考研英语阅读的命题实际，选取了符合大家阅读偏好，同时也是考研英语阅读理解文章最集中的题源The Economist《经济学家》、Newsweek《新闻周刊》、Time《时代周刊》、The New York Times《纽约时报》4份期刊杂志，从这些为考研命题者所青睐的优秀原版期刊杂志中分别精选出50篇与考研英语阅读命题趋势相贴近的最新文章，具有较强的时效性。

本册为其中的“时代周刊分册”，分为经济类、文教类等五类。

社会类

Passage 1 The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages

Passage 2 France’S New Year’S Tradition：Car-Burning

Passage 3 E-Waste Not

Passage 4 Bunkinginwith Mom and Dad

Passage 5 In Japan，Fast Fashion Rules in Slow Times

Passage 6 CanWindPowerGetupto Speed?

Passage 7 Does the E．U．’S Airline Blacklist Make Flying Safer?

Passage 8 ALighterBrew：NonalcoholicBeer

Passage 9 Distracted Driving：Should Talking，Texting Be Banned?

Passage 10 Why Americans Are Adopting Fewer Kids from China?………………………

文教类

Passage 1 Criminalizing Home Schoolers

Passage 2 Hidden College Costs：Rising Fees

Passage 3 A Writing Prize for the People，by the People

Passage 4 No Dropouts Left Behind：New Rules on Grad Rates

Passage 5 Making Reading，Writing and Recession Work Together

Passage 6 A Brief History of Post humous Literature

Passage 7 Cash-Strapped State Schools Being ForcedtoPrivatize  

Passage 8 Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Public Schools?……………………………

Passage 9 India to Foreign Colleges：Set up Campus Here

Passage 10 Ann Arbor Kills Its Newspaper--to Save It

经济类

Passage 1 Will Online Sales Brighten a Bleak Holiday Season?

Passage 2 Texas Braces for an Oil Bust……………

Passage 3 For the Post Office：Snow,Rain and Now Gloom ofRecession

Passage 4 FDIC Reports That Bank Failures Are Rising

Passage 5 Credit Problems Are Climbing the Income Scale

Passage 6 Can a Golf Shoe Help GEOX Beat the Recession?

Passage 7 Commodities Conundrum

Passage 8 A Drag on the Economic Rebound：Consumer Spending

Passage 9 A fter Polaroid，Keeping Instant Photography Alive

Passage 10 A bercrombie & Fitch：Worst Recession Brand?

科技类

Passage 1 Finding Energy All around Us

Passage 2 Mars：Pop 6

Passage 3 Mapping the Ratsin New York City

Passage 4 Wait a Second：Why 2008 Was aLong Year

Passage 5 LearningMore aboutLevitation

Passage 6 What Good Is Sleep?New Lessons from the Fruit Fly

Passage 7 An Organism Survives Antarctica- and Maybe Mars

Passage 8 Ida：Humankind’S Earliest Ancestor!(Not Really)………………………………

Passage 9 The fMRI Brain Scan：A Better Lie Detector7

Passage 10 New Clues in the Mass Death ofBees

健康类

Passage 1 Does the Flu Vaccine Really Protect Kids?

Passage 2 Can Vitamin D Protect Against Breast Cancer?

Passage 3 Lack of Sleep Linked to Heart Problems

Passage 4 Why Men Are Better Dieters than Wbmen…………………………………

Passage 5 Study：Secondhand Smoke Tied to Dementia

Passage 6 Eatinga Bit Less Salt Can Be a Big Health Boon

Passage 7 Why Does Scratching Relieve an Itch?……………………………………

Passage 8 Many Elderly Falls Due to Inner-Ear Imbalance

Passage 9 Study：Web Therapy Can Help Ease Insomnia

Passage 10 Benefits Seen in Post-cancer Weight Lifting