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 Intellectual property：blockchain of command知识产权：控制区块链
- Passage 2 Minimum wage? Its time to talk about a maximum wage最低工资？现在也该讨论一下最高工资了
- Passage 3 Corporate ambitions：Amazon’s empire企业雄心：亚马逊帝国
- Passage 4 Logistics firms：boxed in物流公司：陷入困境
- Passage 5 Depopulation in Germany：fading echoes德国人口衰减：回声渐弱
- Passage 6 Regulating the data economy：the world’s most valuable resource监管数据经济：世界上最宝贵的资源
- Passage 7 Student loans：grading education助学贷款：给教育评级
- Passage 8 Social mobility: no room at the top 社会流动：高层职位遥不可及
- Passage 9 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 10 Trump wants more tax cuts, and I agree.Sort of. 特朗普想要更多的减税，我同意。算是吧。
- Passage 11 Digital disruption on the farm 数码科技对农场的干扰
- Passage 12 Shock therapy 休克疗法
- Passage 13 City properties should be homes for people first—not investments 城市地产应首要满足人的住房需求，而不是首要用来投资
- 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 Oxbridge owns a huge amount of land. But thats the tip of the iceberg 牛津剑桥大学拥有大量的土地，但这只是冰山一角
- Unit 2 Science and Technology
- Passage 1 Tech firms cant keep our data forever: we need a Digital Expiry Date 科技公司不可以永久存留我们的数据：我们需要一个“数据存留终止期”
- Passage 2 Subatomic opportunities:Quantum leaps亚原子的机会:量子跃迁
- Passage 3 Schumpeter:a trip to the shrink熊彼特:消泡之旅
- Passage 4 The internet of things has opened up a new frontier of domestic abuse 物联网开辟了家暴的新领域
- Passage 5 Regenerative medicine:a tissue of truths再生医学:器官真相
- Passage 6 Health care:the wonder drug医疗保健：灵丹妙药
- Passage 7 Brains and computers:we can remember it for you wholesale人脑与计算机:我们能为你大规模保存记忆
- Passage 8 Renewable energy:clean energy’s dirty secret可再生能源：清洁能源的肮脏秘密
- Passage 9 Rare diseases:fixing fate罕见疾病:修补宿命
- Passage 10 The marine world:deep trouble海洋世界：深陷危机
- Passage 11 The Arctic:polar bare北极:裸露的北极
- Passage 12 The pharma industry:hard to swallow 制药业：难以下咽
- Passage 13 Hot to trot 急不可待
- Passage 14 You are what you eat 人如其食
- Passage 15 The 3% solution 3%的解决方案
- Passage 16 Gained in translation 翻译何所得
- Passage 17 Deadlier than the male 比“男飓风”更致命
- Passage 18 Cutting down on cutting down 减少砍伐
- Passage 19 Fitness: five steps to motivate yourself 健身：自我激励的五种方法101
- Unit 3 Politics
- Passage 1 Gender budgeting: making women count 性别预算：重视女性
- Passage 2 No wonder people on benefits live in fear. Supermarkets spy on them now 难怪如今领取社会福利补助的人觉得自己整天生活在恐惧之中，因为现在就连超市也在监视他们的一举一动
- 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 FATCA’s flaws 《海外账户纳税法案》的缺陷
- Passage 11 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 future of America: bland comfort美国的未来：无味的舒适
- Passage 2 Technology and education: lifelong learning科技和教育：终身学习
- Passage 3 Free exchange: a cooler head自由交流：更冷静的头脑
- Passage 4 Endoflife care: how to have a better death临终关怀：怎样才能拥有更好的死亡
- Passage 5 Statistics：nullius in verba统计学：谁的话也别盲信
- Passage 6 Amancio Ortega：behind the mask of Zara阿曼西奥•奥尔特加：Zara的面具背后
- Passage 7 Lowincome black fathers want to be good dads. The system wont let them 低收入黑人父亲想做好爸爸，但制度不允许
- Passage 8 Alison Saunders: dont sack her, back her 艾莉森•桑德斯：不要罢免她，我们支持她
- Passage 9 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 10 Pariss padlocks: the heart has its reasons 巴黎桥挂锁：事出有因
- Passage 11 Inside the box 狭室之内
- Passage 12 The great trailblazer 伟大的先驱者
- Passage 13 A chip and a chair 一椅一筹码
- Passage 14 Well read 值得一读
- Passage 15 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 16 Wisdom in 140 characters: the triumphant return of the aphorism 140个字符内的智慧：格言的凯旋
