Lesson One China opens doors of state-run companies to world's top talent 1
Lesson Two An American in Beijing 9
Lesson Three Tiger Mom...Meet Panda Dad 15
Lesson Four Is an Ivy League Diploma Worth It？ 23
Lesson Five Debt Burden Alters Outlook for US Graduates 28
Lesson Six The Evolution Wars 36
Lesson Seven Obama Wins a Second Term as U.S.President 45
Lesson Eight The Economy Sucks.But Is It'92 Redux？ 53
Lesson Nine Five myths about the American dream 59
Lesson Ten Is America's new declinism for real？ 66
Lesson Eleven Pentegon Digs In on Cyberwar Front 73
Lesson Twelve Terrorized by“War on Terror” 78
Lesson Thirteen Spies Among Us：Modern-Day Espionage 85
Lesson Fourteen Google's Zero-Carbon Quest 91
Lesson Fifteen Little Sympathy for Margaret Thatcher Among Former Opponents 101
Lesson Sixteen Britain's Embattled Newspapers Are Leading the World 107
Lesson Seventeen Mrs Windsor,Anyone？ 119
Lesson Eighteen Rethinking the welfare state：Asia's next revolution 125
Lesson Nineteen The hopeful continent：Africa rising 134
Lesson Twenty Greece as Victim 141
Lesson Twenty-one The Coming Conflict in the Arctic 147
Lesson Twenty-two Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find‘the One’？ 155
Lesson Twenty-three Yawns：A generation of the young，rich and frugal 160
Lesson Twenty-four Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers 166
Lesson Twenty-Five Model economies：The beauty business 173
Lesson Twenty-six Nanospheres leave cancer no place to hide 180
Lesson Twenty-seven Why Bilinguals Are Smarter 185
Lesson Twenty-eight Basketball：The incredible story of Jeremy Lin,the new superstar of the NBA 191
Lesson Twenty-nine He's Back All Right,Now with a Memoir 196
Lesson Thirty The reality-television business：Entertainers to the world 203
附录 209
Ⅰ 美国政府 209
Ⅱ 英国政府 214
Ⅲ 二战以来美国历任总统一览 217
Ⅳ 二战以来英国历任首相一览 220
Ⅴ 值得注意的几个词缀 223
Ⅵ 报刊标题常用词汇 224
Ⅶ 标题自我测试 229
Ⅷ 报刊课考试的若干建议 234
Ⅸ 考试样题 236