文旭，西南大学外院博士生导师，国家社会科学基金学科规划评审组专家，西部地区外语教育研究会会长，靠前学术期刊Cognitive Linguistic Studies（《认知语言学研究》，John Benjamins Publishing Company出版）主编
目录
Table of Contents Unit 1 Politics Text A Lexington: The Democrats’ Daughters Text B A Feminist Party? Perfect. As Long as It Didn’t Last Too Long Text C Divide and Conquer: Are the Left and the Right in America About to Go to War with Each Other? Unit 2 Economy Text A Solving America’s Inequality Puzzle Text B Grandeur and Decline Text C 5 Reasons Why Scottish Independence Would Be an Economic Disaster News Headline Unit 3 Education Text A Hong Kong in Hot Pursuit of Ivy League Education Text B Is College Worth It? Text C Why Do Americans Stink at Math? Understanding News Report: The Lead Unit 4 Art Text A Why eBay Is an Art Forger’s Paradise Text B Is Digital Art the Real Thing? Text C Second Coming Feature Unit 5 Sports Text A Jeremy Lin Takes Sane Approach to His Opportunity with the Lakers Text B Home Run Derby: Some Sluggers Would Just as Soon Sit Than Swing Text C With World Cup, Brazil Shows Its Successes and Shortcomings Unit 6 Society Text A The Rise of Fake Pot Text B The Ins and the Outs Text C Pregnancy Discrimination—Special Delivery The Structure of Hard News and Soft News Unit 7 Technology Text A Has 3D Printing in the Home Been Over-hyped? Text B Will Graphene Truly Become the Next Miracle Material? Text C Ebola: How does It Compare? Understanding the Structure of News Stories Unit 8 Religion Text A The Surprising Appeal of ISIS Text B Three Assumptions About the Middle East That Are Just Plain Wrong Text C The Secret History of the Middle East Newspapers in the United States Unit 9 Environment Text A Hybrid, Electric or Gas: What’s a Car Buyer Interested in theEnvironment to Do? Text B When an Electric Car Dies, What Will Happen to the Battery? Text C Obama, Chinese President Agree to Landmark Climate Deal News Commentary (Op-ed) Unit 10 Travel Text A Brief Encounters: Why I Love House-swapping Text B Lonely Planet Reveals the Future of Travel Text C The Great Wallets of China: Think YOU Like a Splurge at the Shops? You’ve Nothing on the Chinese Bling Addicts Spending ￡500m Here in One Mindboggling Week of Excess Newspapers in the U.K. Unit 11 People Text A Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize for Literature Text B Profile: Alice Munro Text C The Secretive Billionaire Who Built Silicon Valley Unit 12 History Text A D-Day: Why America Remembers Text B Honoring a Hero: A Lost Purple Heart from World War Ⅱ Finds Its Way Home to Salem Man Text C 10 Shocking Ways the Second World War Could Have Ended Differently Column
摘要
Notes: 1. Lexington: is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 61st largest in the U.S., known as the “Horse Capital of the World.” Lexington was founded in June, 1775, in what was then Fincastle County, Virginia, 17 years before Kentucky became a state. 莱星顿，美国肯塔基州的第二大城市，建于1775 年6 月。 2. Democrats and Republicans: The Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties in the U.S., traces its history back to the Democratic Republican Party (1792) of Thomas Jefferson who favored popular control of the government. Following the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the party’s base was broadened, with representation from the new West as well as the East. Jackson was praised as a man of the people, and his administration marked the beginning of the period of dominance for the Democrats that only ended with the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln, the first successful candidate of the new Republican Party. The slavery controversy and the Civil War split the party into northern and southern selection. The Republican Party is the other major political party of the U.S. It was founded in 1854 by dissidents of the Whig, Democratic and Free Soil Parties to unify the growing antislavery forces.The Republic Party remained dominant in U.S. politics, winning 14 out of 18 presidential elections between 1860 and 1932. 民主党和共和党民主党是由第七任美国总统安德鲁· 杰逊创建，但它的起源很早可以追溯至托马斯· 杰斐逊于1792 年创立的民主– 共和党。民主党以新政结合的政策知名品牌了美国政府的政策一直到20 世纪60 年代的民权运动。共和党创立于1854 年，是由一群前辉格党党员、北方民主党人以及奴隶解放运动者所组成的联盟，他们反对奴隶制度的扩张，并主张应该将美国现代化，其创立的动机是为了对抗当时的奴隶主势力——亦即当时那些试图控制联邦政府并扩张奴隶制度的南方富有阶级。
