袁小陆主编的《英语媒体时文选读》是研究生英语创新教育系列教材之选修系列教材的重要组成部分,其重点是培养研究生快速阅读能力。通过本课程的学习,学生能较好地把握英美报刊杂志文章的一般特点及其相关阅读技巧,分析文章的思想观点、篇章布局、语言技巧及文体修辞等,进一步提高英语报刊阅读理解能力和思想表达能力。该教材内容选材广泛、语言鲜活地道,题材涉及社会、政治、经济、环保、健康、能源交通、体育、娱乐、科学技术等方面,目的在于引导研究生关注国外媒体报道,进一步拓展研究生的视野,尽多尽快地获取生活各个方面的信息。
Unit 1 Society
Text A It's All Innocent Gossip, Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading / 1
Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make / 11
Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started /20
Unit 2 Economy
Text A The People's Banker /28
Text B The People's Banker /38
Text C The End of the Euro /45
Unit 3 Science and Technology
Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health? / 55
Text B The Groupon Clipper / 65
Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors? / 75
Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment
Text A Pathology as Entertainment / 85
Text B Why C.S. Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy / 97
Text C Re-writing History, Hollywood-style / 105
Unit 5 Environment
Text A UK Environment Healthy? Beware the Government Spin / 114
Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands / 124
Text C Stop Blaming the Poor: It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet / 133
Unit 6 Health
Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong / 140
Text B Have a Food allergy? It's Time to Recheck /151
Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System / 160
Unit 7 Sports
Text A How 'Carbohydrate Rinsing' Can Boost Sports Performance / 169
Text B Cycling Training: How to Use GPS to Improve Performance / 179
Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit/ / 189
Unit 8 Energy and Transportation
Text A Not on My Beach, Please / 198
Text B Power to the People /206
Text C Station Design: Waiting for the Train /215
Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters
Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway /225
Text B Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 /233
Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters / 240
Unit 10 Education
Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University /249
Text B Waiting for 'Superman': Education Reform Isn't Easy /259
Text C For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web /268
Key to Exercises