第一部分 经济新闻 1
Lesson 1 Stock Market Investors Count Their Losses after a Bad Week Felt Near and Far 1
Lesson 2 Similarities,but Also Big Differences,between Today's Crisis and 1930s 8
Lesson 3 World Wealth Report 15
Lesson 4 Nobel Recognizes Research into Economic Governance 21
Lesson 5 Peter Drucker(1909-2005):A Thinker for Business Leaders 27
Lesson 6 Economic Conditions:Trying to Read the Future 33
Lesson 7 Work on Game Theory Wins Nobel Prize for Two Economists 39
Lesson 8 NASDAQ:An Electronic Marketplace 45
Lesson 9 Greenspan Retires and American Economy 52
Lesson 10 Americans and Their Credit Reports 59
Lesson 11 On the Job,at Minimum Wage 65
Lesson 12 Gold Prices Reach Their Highest Levels in Years 71
Lesson 13 High Oil Prices and the World Economy 77
Lesson 14 International Monetary Fund 84
Lesson 15 US States Fight Back to Protect Rights of Property Owners 91
第二部分 区域性新闻热点 98
Lesson 16 East Asian Leaders Form New Group to Improve the Area's Future 98
Lesson 17 After French and Dutch Reject EU Constitution,What Now? 105
Lesson 18 Israel Withdrawing from Gaza after 38 Years 112
Lesson 19 After Three Years,Iraq Still a Major Issue in American Politics 119
Lesson 20 Palestinians Are Described as"Simply in Shock"after Hamas Wins Elections 126
Lesson 21 Tenth Anniversary of Ethnic Killings in Rwanda 132
Lesson 22 North Korean Nuclear Deal Called into Question 138
Lesson 23 Iran Rejects Appeal to Stop Enriching Uranium 144
Lesson 24 Putin Calls for Changes in Russia's Political Changes 151
Lesson 25 Germany Awaits a New Leader,and a New Day 158
第三部分 政治、法律、科学报道、文化等新闻 165
Lesson 26 International Criminal Court 165
Lesson 27 Powerful US Lawmaker Accused of Election Law Violation in Texas 172
Lesson 28 United States Releases Yearly Report on Human Rights around the World 179
Lesson 29 Corruption Digs Deepest in Countries in Conflict 189
Lesson 30 Investigative Reporting,Coverage of Katrina Earn Pulitzer Prizes for US Newspapers 195
Lesson 31 Exercise in Free Expression:How It Led to Deadly Costs 202
Lesson 32 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's Death 209
Lesson 33 Mars Once Had Moving Plates Like Earth Has Now 221
Lesson 34 Stem Cell Research 227
Lesson 35 Climate Conference Opens in Copenhagen 233
Lesson 36 Shuttle Investigation 239
后记 245