研究生英语媒体时文阅读

Unit 1 Society

Text A It's All Innocent Gossip, Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading

Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make

Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started

Unit 2 Economy

Text A The People's Banker

Text B The People's Banker

Text C The End of the Euro

Unit 3 Science and Technology

Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health?

Text B The Groupon Clipper

Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors?

Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment

Text A Pathology as Entertainment

Text B Why C.S. Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy

Text C Re-writing History, Hollywood-style

Unit 5 Environment

Text A UK Environment Healthy? Beware the Government Spin

Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands

Text C Stop Blaming the Poor: It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet

Unit 6 Health

Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong

Text B Have a Food allergy? It's Time to Recheck

Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System

Unit 7 Sports

Text A How 'Carbohydrate Rinsing' Can Boost Sports Performance

Text B Cycling Training: How to Use GPS to Improve Performance

Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit!

Unit 8 Energy and Transportation

Text A Not on My Beach, Please

Text B Power to the People

Text C Station Design: Waiting for the Train

Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters

Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway

Text B Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in

Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters

Unit 10 Education

Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University

Text B Waiting for 'Superman': Education Reform Isn't Easy

Text C For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web

Key to Exercises

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