PART 1 Hot News 1
Unit 1 Text A A Toast to Torino,with a Last Bicerin 1
Text B How to Read a Newspaper? 7
Unit 2 Text A The Race Against Avian Flu 12
Text B What Is a Newspaper? 20
PART 2 Environmental Protection 26
Unit 3 Text A China Notes Costs of"Grave"Pollution 26
Text B Where Does News Come from? 33
Unit 4 Text A Global Warming Threatens Deserts 40
Text B Headlines 45
Unit 5 Text A A Sinking Feeling 52
Text B Who Processes the News? 66
PART 3 Cloned Stem-cell Research 70
Unit 6 Text A Clone Aid 70
Text B When Is It News? 83
Unit 7 Text A Ancient DNA Yields Clues to the Puzzle of European Origins 87
Text B The Importance of Accuracy 96
PART 4 Health and Travel 100
Unit 8 Text A So,You Want to Live for Ever? 100
Text B The Need for Objectivity 111
Unit 9 Text A Out of the Comfort Zone 115
Text B Libel 124
PART 5 Social Problems 128
Unit 10 Text A Are You Safe from Online Crooks? 128
Text B The Editorial 139
Unit 11 Text A ID Thieves'New Tricks 144
Text B Readers'Letters 153
PART 6 Education and Immigration 156
Unit 12 Text A Feeling Strains,Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties 156
Text B Analyzing an Editorial 169
Unit 13 Text A Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status 173
Text B Features and Classifieds 182
PART 7 Science and Information Technology 187
Unit 14 Text A In the Kitchen 187
Text B Sports 200
Unit 15 Text A In Search of the Real Google 204
Text B Classifieds 220
PART 8 Economy 227
Unit 16 Text A Is Ford Running on Empty? 227
Text B The Newspaper as Current Events Source 240
PART 9 Politics and Biography 244
Unit 17 Text A Senate Approves Lobbying Limits by Wide Margin 244
Text B Learning from Newspaper Graphs 252
Unit 18 Text A Voice of Courage 257
Text B Using the Newspaper in a Writing Report 263
PART 10 Art and Culture 267
Unit 19 Text A Can This Man Save the Movies?(Again?) 267
Text B Newspaper Careers 282
Unit 20 Text A The Competition Was Thick and Growing 285
Text B Special Expressions 297
Reference Key to the Exercises 302