Part 1 Hot News 2
Unit 1 Text A Shanghai's Back on Top of the World 2
Text B Special Expressions 16
Unit 2 Text A Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake 21
Text B What is a Newspaper? 33
Unit 3 Text A Report 1 Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground 40
Report 2 Q＆A:How Did Chile's Trapped Miners Survive? 44
Text B Where Does News Come from? 52
Unit 4 Text A Report 1 NASA Scientists Find Water On Moon 59
Report 2 $79m NASA Blast Finds Enough Water for Man on Moon to Have Bath 61
Text B Headlines 70
Unit 5 Text A Stanley McChrystal Goes:After McChrystal 77
Text B Who Processes the News? 85
Part 2 Economy 90
Unit 6 Text A In Defense of Europe 90
Text B When Is It News? 100
Unit 7 Text A Debt Forgetfulness 106
Text B The Importance of Accuracy 116
Unit 8 Text A Watching Us Save,One Cart at a Time 121
Text B The Need for Objectivity 132
Unit 9 Text A Report 1 Stronger Yuan May Not Mean More U.S.Jobs 137
Report 2 U.S.Backs off in Currency Dispute with China 140
Report 3 Currency War Risk Threatens Investment Recovery:U.N 142
Text B Libel 149
Part 3 Medical Treatment,Sport and Education 154
Unit 10 Text A Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief 154
Text B The Editorial 165
Unit 11 Text A New Beginning in New Stadium Leaves Giants Feeling Relieved 171
Text B Readers'Letters 180
Unit 12 Text A The Principal and the Paddle 184
Text B Analyzing an Editorial 194
Part 4 Biography 199
Unit 13 Text A The War on Secrecy 199
Text B Features and Classifieds 211
Unit 14 Text A Elizabeth Taylor Dies;Screen Legend Was 79 217
Text B Sports 233
Part 5 Ecology and Environment 238
Unit 15 Text A The Cloud That Closed a Continent 238
Text B Classifieds 248
Unit 16 Text A Report 1 Divisions Persist On Core Questions As Leaders Arrive 256
Report 2 It's a Deal...but Not One That Will Save the World 261
Text B The Newspaper as Current Events Source 274
Part 6 Other News 278
Unit 17 Text A Will the BlackBerry Sink the Presidency 278
Text B Learning from Newspaper Graphs 292
Unit 18 Text A Faith,Hope and Charities 297
Text B Using the Newspaper in a Writing Report 308
Unit 19 Text A The Coming Robot Crime Wave 313
Text B Newspaper Careers 327
Unit 20 Text A Nothing But Joy 330
Reference Key to the Exercises 347
References 384