Lesson One:An American in Beijing 1
Lesson Two:Home at Last 6
Lesson Three:China Finds Western Ways Bring New Woes 8
Lesson Four:Exploding Tourism Eroding China's Riches 12
Lesson Five:The Evolution Wars 15
Lesson Six:Elite U.S.schools turn the fight for supremacy into online game 21
Lesson Seven:Is Harvard Worth It? 25
Lesson Eight:The Economy Sucks.But Is It'92 Redux? 32
Lesson Nine:Obama Makes History 36
Lesson Ten:The New Dream Isn't American 39
Lesson Eleven:Is America's new declinism for real? 42
Lesson Twelve:Path of the Storm 46
Lesson Thirteen:Terrorized by"War on Terror" 49
Lesson Fourteen:Iraq:Who won the war? 53
Lesson Fifteen:Libby Defense Portrays Client as a Scapegoat 57
Lesson Sixteen:Stealing a Nation 61
Lesson Seventeen:How'Soft Power'Got'Smart' 64
Lesson Eighteen:A Race We Can All Win 68
Lesson Nineteen:Why the Monarchy Must Stay 71
Lesson Twenty:The Coming Conflict in the Arctic 75
Lesson Twenty-one:Big Maoist wins could reshape Nepal's politics 79
Lesson Twenty-two:A Witness from Australia's"Stolen Generation" 83
Lesson Twenty-three:Colombia crisis is settled,but which side wins? 87
Lesson Twenty-four:Yawns:A generation of the young,rich and frugal 90
Lesson Twenty-five:Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers 93
Lesson Twenty-six:Nanospheres leave cancer no place to hide 97
Lesson Twenty-seven:Kaka:Brazil's Mr.Perfect 100
Lesson Twenty-eight:Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 103
Lesson Twenty-nine:He's just like you and me,except for the ￡31bn fortune 106
Lesson Thirty:Bill Gates is retiring,sort of 109
附录 112
Ⅰ 美国政府 112
Ⅱ 英国政府 117
Ⅲ 美国历任总统一览表 120
Ⅳ 英国历任首相一览表 123
Ⅴ 美英军衔一览表 126
Ⅵ 值得注意的几个词缀 128
Ⅶ 报刊标题常用词汇 129
Ⅷ 标题自我测试 134
Ⅸ 外刊课考试的若干说明 139
Ⅹ 考试样题 141
参考书目 153