英文报刊文章选读

Unit 1 Features

Passage 1 Fuel Costs Could End Cheap Flight Era

Passage 2 The Tories’ Psychosis over Europe Is Leading Them to Disaster

Passage 3 Dying with Debt： A Dirty Little Retirement Secret

Unit 2 Traveling

Passage 4 Motoring around Britain

Passage 5 Losing Oneselfin Bermuda

Passage 6 The First Resort

Unit 3 Life

Passage 7 Loose Lips Sink Shifts

Passage 8 If Only the Dollar Were Stronger

Passage 9 Women Find a Space of Their Own with Mom Caves

Unit 4 Culture

Passage 10 Do Different Languages Confer Different Personalities？

Passage 11 Homeland Finds a Motto： “You Sound Like You’re High”

Passage 12 Return of the Queen

Unit 5 Sports

Passage 13 Russia Eyes Waiving Visas for English Fans

Passage 14 One Club Wants to Use a Gene—Test to Spot the New Ronaldo.

Is This Football’s Future？

Passage 15 After a Plenty of Pain， Finally a Gain

Unit 6 Environment

Passage 16 When Nature Is Nurture

Passage 17 Lost in the Concrete Jungle

Passage 18 On the Move

Unit 7 Education

Passage 19 What’s New at the E—Library

Passage 20 A World View Must Be Part of School Culture

Passage 21 Balancing Prestige and Debt in Choosing a College

Unit 8 Health

Passage 22 Are Vaccines the Answer to Addiction？

Passage 23 Government Wamed on DIY Cancer Treatments

Passage 24 Obsessive Thoughts： A Darker Side of OCD

Key to the Exercises

Glossary

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