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    张扬主编的《英语报刊阅读教程》编写考虑到了跨文化交际教育和新闻英语工具性的特点。报刊英语具有题材广泛，内容新颖，语言地道的显著特点。丰富的题材，新颖的内容帮助学生了解中外不同的世界观、价值观和思维方式，培养学生中外文化差异意识。地道的语言为同学们学习现代英语提供了实用有效的材料。
    本教程共设八个单元，主题涉及校园、科技、医药、政治、体育、娱乐、饮食和经济。由于本教程过去作为校本教材在编者所任教的医科类院校使用，所以在文章选取时会有向医学或医学人文贴近的倾向。而作为对ESP课程的探索，本教程每个单元都附了英语报刊相关知识的介绍，讲解新闻英语的语言特点、语法知识和阅读技巧等，增强学生运用新闻英语专业知识进行英语报刊阅读和英语新闻写作的能力。
    此外，通过对研究生入学考试英语大纲的研读，以及对近年来研究生英语入学考试真题阅读部分的分析，我们会发现考研英语阅读的选材大多来自于英美国家主流的报刊。本教程的使用可以帮助训练同学们新闻英语的思维，掌握新闻英语的特点，增强新闻英语的阅读效果，这必将对未来同学们参加研究生英语入学考试大有裨益。

Unit 1  School
  Text A  The Many Costs of Campus Carry
  Text B  All Against One: Why Being Picked On in a Japanese School is Especially Traumatic
  Text C  Chinese Maths Textbooks to Be Translated for UK Schools
Unit 2  Technology
  Text A  Why No Job Is Safe from the Rise of the Robots
  Text B  Doctors Are Saving Lives with VR
  Text C  What Will the Car of 2040 Be Like?
Unit 3  Medicine
  Text A  Human Cases of Bird Flu Are Surging, Alarming Public Health Officials
  Text B  Fitness Bracetets May Warn of Serious Illness
  Text C  Chocolate Linked to Decreased Risk of Irregular Heart Rhythm
Unit 4  Politics
  Text A  "Poke in the Eye". Will Nuclear Test Force Chinese Rethink on North Korea?
  Text B  Californians Strongly Oppose Trump--and 53% Say State's Members of Congress Should "Never" Work with Him
  Text C  Congress Eyes China as It Struggles to Find a North Korea Solution
Unit 5  Sports
  Text A  Hollywood Helps Keep the Concussion Conversation Going, Which Helps All Athletes
  Text B  Why Is So Much Racist Nonsense Peddled in Sports Coverage?
  Text C  Beijing Wins Bid to Host 2022 Winter Olympics
Unit 6  Entertainment
  Text A  Fashion Bible Vogue Vows to Ban Underweight and Underage Models
  Text B  Review: The Odd Life of Timothy Green Is Odd Indeed
  Text C  Hollywood Leaders Put Aside Rivalries to Take on the Industry's Lack of Women
Unit 7  Food
  Text A  Why What We Think about Eating Is So Often Wrong
  Text B  Amazon Enhances Research on Pre-made Meals, but Will Home Cooks Buy Them?
  Text C  Edible Pond Scum (绿藻) Could Be the Next Trendy Superfood  .
Unit 8  Economy
  Text A  Bitcoin Forever
  Text B  Ripping You Off ... One Penny at a Time
  Text C  Market Green