图书信息：
书    名：大学英语选修课系列教材-英美报刊选读教程
作    者：张文鹏
出 版 社：重庆大学出版社
出版日期：2008年8月1日

内容简介：
 《大学英语选修课系列教材?英美报刊选读教程》以《大学英语课程教学要求（试行）》为指导，严格按照选修课的课时要求和学生水平的实际需要，强调培养学生的语言技能。《大学英语选修课系列教材?英美报刊选读教程》分为Society，Economics，Fashion，Science & Technology，Spots，Entertainment，Psychology，Figures八个单元，每个单元包括课文简介、课文（包括难点注释）、课后练习、背景资料及报刊语言特色介绍。本文选材精炼，练习设计实用多样，适合修读完大学英语四级并开设选修课的学生使用。

目录：
Unit 1 Society
Lesson 1 In Britain, Brown's Take on Organ Donation Boosts New Credo
Lesson 2 We' re Not Luddites. We Just Hate Mobile Phones
Lesson 3 Craig Was a Bright Boy from a Loving Family. How Did It Go Wrong?
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Unit 2 Economics
Lesson 4 Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread
Lesson 5 A Recession, If It Comes, Could Be Worse Than Those of Recent Past
Lesson 6 Eyes on Google, Microsoft Bids $ 44 Billion for Yahoo
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Unit 3 Fashion
Lesson 7 To PRAV and' Chav not
Lesson 8 Lolita' s Closet
Lesson 9 The Mall Had Its Day; Now It' s the Web' s Turn
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Unit 4 Science & Technology
Lesson 10 Who Killed the Newspaper?
Lesson 11 The Big Question: Do We Need a More Reliable Online Encyclopedia Than Wikipedia?
Lesson 12 Karaoke 24/7
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Unit 5 Sports
Lesson 13 If My World Record Had to Go, I Am Glad It Was Claimed by a True Artist
Lesson 14 The Game that Lost Its Glory
Lesson 15 When Sports Becomes a Head Game
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Unit 6 Entertainment
Lesson 16 The Secrets of Star Wars' Success
Lesson 17 7 Stress-Busting Techniques
Lesson 18 Oprah Deal Latest Salvo in Satellite Radio Battle
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Unit 7 Psychology
Lesson 19 When Ties to a Parent Are Cut by the Other
Lesson 20 Shall I Tell You How Awful Things Are? No, Mustn' t Grumble
Lesson 21 In the Mood for (over) Eating
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Unit 8 Figures
Lesson 22 Lessing' s Law : You' re Never Too Old to Be Outrageous
Lesson 23 All That Glitters Is Gold for America' s Man on a Mission
Lesson 24 For Chinese Schools, a Creative Spark
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Key to the Exercises