全书共6个板块，分为20个单元，每单元由Text：A和Text B构成。所选文章主要是英文报刊2009年至2011年的热点新闻，世界政治、经济、文化、环境、生态、教育、卫生、科技等诸多方面的情况介绍，体现当今世界和平、合作与发展的主题。
本书适合大学英语及涉外专业学生选修，也可供准备参加英语等级考试和研究生入学、托福、雅思、商务BEC等考试的学生以及英语爱好者选读。
Part 1 Hot News
Unit 1 Text A Shanghai's Back on Top of the World
Text B Special Expressions
Unit 2 Text A Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake
Text B What is a Newspaper?
Unit 3 Text A Report 1 Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground
Report 2 Q &A：How Did Chile's Trapped Miners Survive?
Text B Where Does News Come from7
Unit 4 Text A Report 1 NASA Scientists Find Water On Moon
Report 2 $79m NASA Blast Finds Enough Water for Man on Moon to Have Bath
Text B Headlines
Unit 5 Text A Stanley Mc Chrystal Goes：After Mc Chrystal
Text B Who Processes the News7
Part 2 Economy
Unit 6 Text A in Defense of Europe
Text B When Is It News7
Unit 7 Text A Debt Forgetfulness
Text B The Importance of Accuracy
Unit 8 Text A Watching Us Save．One Cart at a Time
Text B The Need for Objectivity
Unit 9 Text A Report 1 Stronger Yuan May Not Mean More U．S．Jobs
Report 2 U．S．Backs off in Currency Dispute with China
Report 3 Currency War Risk Threatens Investment Recovery：U．N
Text B Libel
Part 3 Medical Treatment，Sport and Education
Unit 10 Text A Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief
Text B The Editorial
Unit 11 Text A New Beginning in New Stadium Leaves Giants Feeling Relieved
Text B Readers' Letters
Unit 12 Text A The Principal and the Paddle
Text B Analyzing an Editorial
Part 4 Biography
Unit 13 Text A The War on Secrecy
Text B Features and Classifieds
Unit 14 Text A Elizabeth Taylor Dies；Screen Legend Was 79
Text B Sports
Part 5 Ecology and Environment
Unit 15 Text A The Cloud That Closed a Continent
Text B Classifieds
Unit 16 Text A Report 1 Divisions Persist On Core Questions As
Leaders Arrive
Report 2 It's a Deal but Not One That Will Save the World
Text B The Newspaper as Current Events Source
Part 6 Other News
Reference Key to the Exercises
References
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