《Step by Step轻松突破新闻英语听力(附光盘)》由刘倩编译，本书以“颠覆传统、逆向思维，听练结合，轻松高效练听力”为编写理念，汇集了VOA、BBC、CNN、NPR等各大知名新闻媒体的新闻素材，新闻内容涉及日常生活、娱乐、经济、体育、灾难、科技、环境、文化教育等与民众生活息息相关的各个方面。每节设置有译知半解、核心词汇及短语、题解原文、详细解析等板块，帮助读者循序渐进听懂新闻英语。本书的适用对象广泛，包括：准备应对各种英语考试，想要在听力理解部分获得高分的人群；从事外事交流及英文口译、笔译的工作人员；想要迅速提高英语听力水平的在职人员；想积累丰富的谈资和老外畅谈天下的人群。

Unit 1 日常生活

舌尖上的安全：食品安全出路何在

Food safety dilemma

拖延症的“兄弟”

Chronic lateness

怎样防止面包变质

How to keep bread from going stale

加拿大女性掌握家庭财政大权

Women control family purse strings in Canada

离婚后“女养男”在美呈上升趋势

Divorce courts mirror society as more women pay alimony

名人崇拜综合症

Celebrity worship syndrome

恐笑症

Being afraid laughed at

相亲招数求职用：会相亲就会找好工作

Dating and job hunting both have their ups and downs

手机“伪装来电”助你脱身尴尬约会

New app rescues people from bad dates

夏季，你跟上潮流了吗

Have you followed the trends and styles for summer

28岁时女人觉得自己最性感

Why women feel sexiest when they are

夫妻上下班同路有助婚姻美满

For a good marriage， travel the same way to work

老年夫妇戴耳机看电视不知家中失窃

Elderly couple watch TV without knowing brazen burglar broke into

their home

女人比男人聪明

Women overtake men in IQ tests for the first time in 100 years

美国多数老人不愿与成年子女同住

Many seniors say “no， thanks” to living with their adult kids

Unit 2 休闲娱乐

《痞子英雄》：台湾的“好莱坞制造”

Black & White:Taiwan goes Hollywood

阿汤嫂面临抚养权争夺战

Holmes faces custody battle for daughter Suri

插队买咖啡 英首相遭训斥

David Cameron told off for queue jumping during trip to coffee shop

古堡惊现500年前女性内衣裤

The scraps of lace that show lingerie was all the rage 500 years ago

63岁婚纱女王恋上27岁型男

Vera Wang， Evan Lysacek an item just a week after divorce announcement

3岁男童吃母乳照登《时代》封面 母亲被指性骚扰

Time cover shows mom breastfeeding 3-year-old son

剑桥女生评选“年度美臀”惹争议

Cambridge students in “Rear of the Year” competition

英女王御用替身曝光 工作24年分文不取

The woman who’s stood in for the Queen for 24 years

英政府公开机密文档：外星人可能造访地球

The UFO files: aliens might come here for holidays

英神秘富翁每天1000英镑发路人

Meet the businessman who hands out ？1，000 to complete strangers

Unit 3 经济资讯

谷歌为何收购摩托罗拉移动

Why Google acquired Motorola Mobility

美国人担心二次衰退

Americans are worried that the United States is poised for another recession

意大利解冻利比亚5亿美元资产

Italian banks are to unfreeze Libyan assets worth more than $500 million

欧美经济信心下滑

US consumer confidence and European economic sentiment added to the

volatility in global markets

欧洲力图遏制债务危机

Contain Europe’s deepening financial crisis

意大利经济困境引发大规模抗议

Discontent runs high in Italy among the population due to the country’s

economic difficulties

黄金价格暴涨 巴黎商人大赚

The euro's troubles have made a good year for Parisians who deal in gold

欧元创始人：欧元区有可能瓦解

Euro founder admits some nations may be forced to leave

Zara老板取代巴菲特成世界第三首富

Zara clothing chain owner overtakes Warren Buffett on world’s rich list

中国中产阶级为何不喜欢使用信用卡

China’s middle class credit card conundrum

澳大利亚经济今年面临挑战

Australia’s resources-powered economy is facing a year of challenges

Unit 4 聚焦奥运

奥运会开幕式志愿者变卖表演道具惹众怒

Anger as volunteers “cash in” on opening ceremony

奥运选手们吃什么

Food secrets of Olympic athletes

菲尔普斯：游泳选手泳池小便是常事

Michael Phelps admits: we do pee in the pool

伦敦奥运闭幕式辣妹重组掀高潮

Spice Girls wow with an energetic routine at the Olympics closing ceremony

英男子因看奥运面无表情被警方逮捕

Parkinson’s disease sufferer held by police at Olympic cycling road race

伦敦奥运花样游泳门票多售出1万张

Four synchronised swimming sessions are oversold by 10，000 tickets

德国人讽伦敦奥运将成“奥运灾难”

Germans laugh at “Olympic disaster”

Unit 5 灾难来袭

新艾滋席卷美洲

Experts have dubbed it the “new AIDS of the Americas”

为提早下班美油漆工火烧核潜艇

Nuclear sub worker set fire so he could leave early

亚太地区不断受灾 损失加大

Asia Pacific region faces rising costs from storms and disasters

日本2011核危机恐将持续多年

Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster may last for years

海啸后数月日本渔港仍旧百废待兴

Fishing towns after the massive tsunami need recovering

灾难性地震袭击意大利

Fatal quake batters crisis-hit Italy

不明疾病横行柬埔寨

Virus found in Cambodia outbreak

奥巴马为抗击艾滋病制定新的目标和承诺

President Barack Obama set new goals and new commitments in the

fight against AIDS

司机偷瞄行人 每年酿百万撞车事故

Drivers ogling pedestrians cause one million crashes a year

墨西哥发生7.6级地震

Big quake hits Mexico

Unit 6 新兴科技

为何星星会闪烁

Why do stars twinkle

眼神可以“控制电脑”你相信吗

Eyes control a computer

可待机15年的手机问世了

Mobile with a battery that lasts for 15 years

安卓推出智能“手表电话”

Android makes watch-phone available

印度太阳能因成本降低而显著发展

India solar energy is making it a viable alternative to power generated

by fossil fuels

诺基亚推出新智能机

Nokia today unveiled a new crop of smartphones

荷兰发明计算机牛仔裤

New jeans have built-in keyboard， mouse and speakers

性格测试真的可靠吗

Are personality tests reliable

吃胡萝卜真能提高视力

Carrots would improve eyesight

40岁以后生育的小孩身体更好 智商更高

Children of mothers over 40 are healthier and more intelligent

俄罗斯向国际空间站发射进步号货运飞船

Russia launches Progress M-16M freighter to ISS

中国人首次入住太空之家

Chinese enter space orbiter for first time

喋喋不休的黑猩猩

Chattering chimps

科技引领残奥

Improvements in technology help Paralympic athletes

驾驶时使用GPS导航的问题

Problems of global positioning systems in driving

Unit 7 生态环境

摩天大楼与环境

Skyscrapers and environment

气候战争

Climate wars

联合国秘书长世界环境日致辞

UN secretary-general’s message on World Environment Day

联合国会议关注可持续发展

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

欧洲干旱影响小麦产量

Driest weather in decades threatens Europe’s key crops

北冰洋冰层大面积融化70%系人为造成

Loss of Arctic sea ice “70% man-made”

全球每天有10亿人在挨饿

Nearly one billion people were hungry

马尔代夫“天堂岛”变垃圾场

The beautiful island in the Maldives that’s been reduced to a pile of rubbish

气候变化帮上忙

Climate change may help

妇女得权 环境获益

Power given women helps environment too

防止战争和武装冲突破坏环境

Preventing the exploitation of the environment in war and armed conflict

全球究竟在变暖还是变冷

Sorry global warming alarmists， the Earth is cooling

全球变暖将使人类变矮

Global warming could make us shorter

艾滋病紧急救援计划

Emergency plan for AIDS relief

Unit 8 文化教育

《饥饿游戏》与“反乌托邦”情结

Flood of fiction which paints a grim future

解读“屌丝文化”

Self-mockery just goes viral

韩国式汉堡包试图在美国扎根

Korea hamburger franchise is setting up in the United States

为啥现代人多爱听老歌

Why do people nowadays like old melodies

恭维：悦人的艺术

Flattery: the art of offering pleasing compliments

中国龙 VS 西方龙

Chinese dragon vs. Western dragon

美国各地奇怪的跨年方式

Worldwide weird: odd ways to ring in the New Year

美国大学古怪课程

Many colleges and universities is to offer courses that are slightly off the

beaten track

留美学生的“社交女王”蜕变记

Broken the cocoon and emerged as a social butterfly among foreign peers

美州立大学被曝造假

Foreign students were awarded degrees without completing coursework

巴黎获评最佳大学城市

London “second to Paris in best student cities”

加州大学或要求申请者写明性取向

University of California mulls asking incoming students their sexual

orientation

全球高校名气榜出炉

World “reputation” rankings: US universities in lead

英3/4大学将被迫缩减招生规模

Three-quarters of universities to cut student places

英网站公布欢乐答题

Funniest exam answers become internet sensation

韩国高学历剩女很难嫁

Korean， educated and female are hard to find a matchmaker

莫言：“意外”的诺贝尔奖

Mo Yan: Prize “outside expectation”