Unit1 Economics and Management 1
Passage 1 Intellectual property:blockchain of command知识产权:控制区块链 1
Passage 2 Minimum wage? It’s time to talk about a maximum wage最低工资?现在也该讨论一下最高工资了 3
Passage 3 Corporate ambitions:Amazon’ s empire企业雄心:亚马逊帝国 7
Passage 4 Logistics firms:boxed in物流公司:陷入困境 11
Passage 5 Depopulation in Germany:fading echoes德国人口衰减:回声渐弱 13
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 17
Passage 7 Student loans:grading education助学贷款:给教育评级 21
Passage 8 Social mobility:no room at the top社会流动:高层职位遥不可及 23
Passage 9 The RBS sell-off:a bad deal all round抛售苏格兰皇家银行:完全是亏本的生意 25
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。 28
Passage 11 Digital disruption on the farm数码科技对农场的干扰 30
Passage 12 Shock therapy休克疗法 34
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 35
Passage 14 The glass precipice玻璃悬崖 37
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 39
Passage 16 Oxbridge owns a huge amount of land.But that’s 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 41
Unit2 Science and Technology 45
Passage 1 Tech firms can’t 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” 45
Passage 2 Subatomic opportunities:Quantum leaps亚原子的机会:量子跃迁 47
Passage 3 Schumpeter:a trip to the shrink熊彼特:消泡之旅 51
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 54
Passage 5 Regenerative medicine:a tissue of truths再生医学:器官真相 57
Passage 6 Health care:the wonder drug医疗保健:灵丹妙药 60
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 66
Passage 8 Renewable energy:clean energy’ s dirty secret可再生能源:清洁能源的肮脏秘密 71
Passage 9 Rare diseases:fixing fate罕见疾病:修补宿命 74
Passage 10 The marine world:deep trouble海洋世界:深陷危机 77
Passage 11 The Arctic:polar bare北极:裸露的北极 80
Passage 12 The pharma industry:hard to swallow制药业:难以下咽 83
Passage 13 Hot to trot急不可待 86
Passage 14 You are what you eat人如其食 87
Passage 15 The 3?olution 3%的解决方案 89
Passage 16 Gained in translation翻译何所得 92
Passage 17 Deadlier than the male比“男飓风”更致命 95
Passage 18 Cutting down on cutting down减少砍伐 98
Passage 19 Fitness:five steps to motivate yourself健身:自我激励的五种方法 101
Unit3 Politics 104
Passage 1 Gender budgeting:making women count性别预算:重视女性 104
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 106
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 109
Passage 4 The Palace of Westminster:rebuilding from the rubble威斯敏斯特宫:在废墟中重建 112
Passage 5 Party deputy leaders:a job about nothing政党副职领导人:形同虚设 114
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 116
Passage 7 Universal credit:needs more work通用福利问题:还有很多工作要做 118
Passage 8 “Let’ s drug-test the rich before approving tax deductions,”U.S. congresswomansays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。” 121
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 124
Passage 10 FATCA’ s flaws《海外账户纳税法案》的缺陷 127
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 130
Unit4 Humannities and Arts 134
Passage 1 The future of America:bland comfort美国的未来:无味的舒适 134
Passage 2 Technology and education:lifelong learning科技和教育:终身学习 137
Passage 3 Free exchange:a cooler head自由交流:更冷静的头脑 141
Passage 4 End-of-life care:how to have a better death 临终关怀:怎样才能拥有更好的死亡 144
Passage 5 Statistics:nullius in verba统计学:谁的话也别盲信 148
Passage 6 Amancio Ortega:behind the mask of Zara阿曼西奥·奥尔特加:Zara的面具背后 150
Passage 7 Low-income black fathers want to be good dads. The system won’t let them低收入黑人父亲想做好爸爸,但制度不允许 153
Passage 8 Alison Saunders:don’t sack her,back her艾莉森·桑德斯:不要罢免她,我们支持她 157
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? 159
Passage 10 Paris’s padlocks:the heart has its reasons巴黎桥挂锁:事出有因 161
Passage 11 Inside the box狭室之内 162
Passage 12 The great trailblazer伟大的先驱者 165
Passage 13 A chip and a chair一椅一筹码 168
Passage 14 Well read值得一读 170
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 173
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 176