近几年考研英语阅读文章选材多集中在《经济学人》《卫报》等外刊，为帮助考生熟悉选题来源篇章，本书甄选了近期《经济学人》《卫报》等外刊的时文，并配以全文翻译。所选文章特点突出、时效性强且与考研英语真题难度相当、体裁相近，能够帮助考生轻松驾驭考研阅读。
- 目录
- 前辅文
- Unit 1 Economics and Management
- Passage 1 Social mobility: no room at the top 社会流动高层职位，遥不可及
- Passage 2 The RBS selloff: a bad deal all round 抛售苏格兰皇家银行：完全是亏本的生意
- Passage 3 HSBC: a bank beyond shame 汇丰银行：一家极其无耻的银行
- Passage 4 France fights back 法国在抵抗外国收购
- Passage 5 From advising to doing 从咨询到实际操作
- Passage 6 Digital disruption on the farm 数码科技对农场的干扰
- Passage 7 A very British binge 疯涨的房价
- Passage 8 Shock therapy 休克疗法
- Passage 9 The case for money laundering “洗钱”案
- Passage 10 The Five Commandments Of Warren Buffett And Charlie Munger 沃伦·巴菲特和查理·芒格的五诫
- Passage 11 How far can Amazon go? 亚马逊能走多远？
- Passage 12 Creative destruction 创造性的毁灭
- Passage 13 In praise of second best 次好方案获称赞
- Passage 14 The glass precipice 玻璃悬崖
- Passage 15 Mike Ashley has pocketed millions from treating people like battery hens 迈克·阿什利把人当成机械化饲养的鸡而将数百万收入囊中
- Passage 16 The great escape 大逃亡
- Passage 17 Pharmed out 走向全球
- Unit 2 Science and Technology
- Passage 1 Hot to trot 急不可待
- Passage 2 You are what you eat 人如其食
- Passage 3 The 3% solution 3%的解决方案
- Passage 4 Gained in translation 翻译何所得
- Passage 5 Deadlier than the male 比“男飓风”更致命
- Passage 6 Cutting down on cutting down 减少砍伐
- Passage 7 Fitness: five steps to motivate yourself 健身：自我激励的五种方法
- Passage 8 Dilbert at war 呆伯特在战斗
- Unit 3 Politics
- Passage 1 The Confederate flag: tear down this red rag联邦战旗：撕掉这块红色的破布
- Passage 2 Benefits reform:Labour needs a compelling response 福利改革：工党需要有说服力的回答
- Passage 3 The Thatcher papers: too important to be saved by a tax break 撒切尔文件：非常重要，值得用减税优惠来获得
- Passage 4 The Palace of Westminster: rebuilding from the rubble 威斯敏斯特宫：在废墟中重建
- Passage 5 Party deputy leaders: a job about nothing 政党副职领导人：形同虚设
- Passage 6 The Anderson review: good, but only as far as it goes 安德森报告：目前来看还不错
- Passage 7 Universal credit: needs more work 通用福利问题：还有很多工作要做
- Passage 8 “Let’s drugtest the rich before approving tax deductions,”U.S. congresswoman says 美国女国会议员说：“在批准富人课税减免前，先要对他们进行毒品检测。”
- Passage 9 Without Scalia, there’s no predicting supreme court decisions 没有斯卡利亚，就没有可预测的最高法院裁决
- Passage 10 No, this is not what Obamacare will look like 不对，这不是奥巴马医改的预期的结果
- Passage 11 No quick fix 智囊用尽
- Passage 12 FATCA’s flaws 《海外账户纳税法案》的缺陷
- Passage 13 BuzzFeed cancelling RNC ads masks the issue: sponsored content for politicians 美国新闻网站BuzzFeed取消和共和党签订的广告协议的做法掩盖了这个话题：为政客提供原生广告服务
- Unit 4 Humannities and Arts
- Passage 1 The Tim Hunt affair: an explosive combination of science, sexism and social media 蒂姆·亨特事件：科学、性别歧视与社会媒体评论的猛烈碰撞
- Passage 2 Alison Saunders: dont sack her, back her 艾莉森·桑德斯：不要罢免她，我们支持她
- Passage 3 Legal highs: the sleep of reason 合法兴奋药物：沉睡的理性
- Passage 4 Religious education in schools: dont trash it, transform it 学校宗教教育：不能废除，但需要变革
- Passage 5 Magna Carta: the magic of myth 大宪章：神话的魔力
- Passage 6 Spooky! Messages from the beyond or just coincidence? 匪夷所思！是来自异域的信息还是只是巧合？
- Passage 7 Pariss padlocks: the heart has its reasons 巴黎桥挂锁：事出有因
- Passage 8 Inside the box 狭室之内
- Passage 9 The great trailblazer 伟大的先驱者
- Passage 10 A chip and a chair 一椅一筹码
- Passage 11 Well read 值得一读
- Passage 12 At first, they tried to deny it and then the letters from staff began to pour in 起初他们企图否认，后来员工的信件蜂拥而至
- Passage 13 Wisdom in 140 characters: the triumphant return of the aphorism 140个字符内的智慧：格言的胜利凯旋
