Unit One Editorials
Text A We Share France's Terrible Loss
Text B It's Time to Tackle the Traffic Problems on Mount Qomolangma
Unit Two Breaking News
Text A Mexico：Botched Raid During Attempt to Arrest El Chapo's Son Led to Massive Firefight．Chaos
Text B Chicago Teachers Announce Strike in Nation's Third—Largest District
Unit Three Politics
Text A Is a Tide Turning Against Populism
Text B There Should Be a Public Option for Everything
Unit Four Economy
Text A America Is Deploying a New Economic Arsenal to Assert Its Power
Text B For the Future．Look to the Past
Unit Five Culture
Text A "A Troubling Choice"：Authors Criticise Peter Handke's Controversial Nobel Win
Text B Biggest Ever Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition to Open in Paris
Unit Six Education
Text A Can We Fix the Schools?(Maybe not
Text B The Degrees of Separation Between the Genders in College Keep Growing
Unit Seven Pollution
Text A How We Measure the Environment Could Change How the World Works
Text B Times Clean Air Campaign：Michael Gove Vows to Cut Air Pollution
Unit Eight Science，Technology and Medicine
Text A Do Narcissists Ever Grow Up
Text B How 3D Printing Could Break into the Building Industry
Text C Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep?It’S in Their DNA
Unit Nine Life and Travel
Text A Adult Kids Are Robbing Parents of Retirement，So Mom and Dad Could Be Taking Their Jobs
Text B How to Protect Your Privacy When You Travel
Unit Ten Sports and Entertainment
Text A Italy's Female Soccer Stars Are Fighting tO Change the Law that Limits Their Pay to $33，000
Text B Austrian Writer Peter Handke Takes the Nobel Literature Prize Amid Protests

本书共精选21篇原版新闻报道，根据主题分为10个单元：社论与即时新闻；政治；经济；文化；教育；环境；科学、技术与医药；生活与旅游；体育与娱乐。选材长度与难度适中，语言准确地道，课文各具特色。每单元包括三大部分：部分重点介绍新闻体裁特点及其阅读技巧，以及英美常见非常不错报刊；第二部分是新闻文章，主要包括五大模块：读前习题与背景知识介绍、课文难点注释、课文生词、课后练习，阅读题型的设计参考靠前测试(雅思、托福等)的阅读题目，为准备应试的学习者提供了多样化练习；第三部分专门介绍英语新闻英语理论知识，如新闻文体特点、写作风格等。