王菲、孙文缘、林立峰、林晓琴、张佳琛主编的《新世纪媒体英语阅读(第2册普通高等教育十二五应用型本科规划教材)》以西方媒体英语报道、新华社评出的2015年国内十大新闻、2015年国际十大新闻、2016年国内十大新闻、2016年国际十大新闻和相关新闻为编写素材，着重反映当代社会主义中国改革开放取得的巨大成果以及世界和平、发展、合作与共赢的历史潮流。

Unit 1
Part A Silk Road
Part B Libel
Unit 2
Tu Youyou Wins Nobel Prize
Unit 3
Part A Chinese Yuan Set to Join IMF Currency Basket
Part B The Editorial
Unit 4
Nepal Still Reeling from Devastating 2015 Earthquake
Unit 5
Part A Fidel Castro，Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S.，Dies at 90
Part B Readers' Letters
Unit 6
Robot Companions Are Coming into Our Homes—So How Human Should They Be？
Unit 7
Part A Jindezhen，China:The Birthplace of a Nation and Its “White Gold”
Part B Analyzing an Editorial
Unit 8
Women's Rights
Unit 9
Part A Refugees Break Past Border Security in Hungary
Part B Features and Classifieds
Unit 10
So Should We Just Kill Them All？
Unit 11
Part A A Dangerous Waltz
Part B Sports， Reviews， and Obituaries
Unit 12
Egypt， Saudi， Arabia， UAE and Bahrain Cut Ties with Qatar over Terror Links
Unit 13
Part A The Car Industry Will Change Forever， But Nobody Is Prepared for It
Part B Classifieds
Unit 14
Two Years Ago， He Clung to Life， Fighting a Mystery Illness.Now He Could Win Olympic Gold
Unit 15
“American First” Is a Hard Sell in Davos
Unit 16
Lost Children Deserve Families， not Care Homes
Unit 17
Theresa Mary's Message to Britain
Unit 18
How Donald Trump Swept to an Unreal， Surreal Presidential Election Win
Unit 19
For Third Year the Earth in 2016Set Heat Record
Reference Key to Exercises
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