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Unit One Reading News ReportsIntroduction to News Reports / 1Lesson 1 Spillonomics： Underestimating Risk / 5Lesson 2 Humbled by Nature， Humble by Culture / 15Lesson 3 How We Broke the Murdoch Scandal / 25Unit Two Reading Biographies andPersonal RecollectionsIntroduction to Biographies and Personal Recollections / 38Lesson 4 Bill Clinton / 40Lesson 5 Steve Jobs / 54Lesson 6 A Beautiful Mind / 68Unit Three Reading EssaysIntroduction to Essays / 80Lesson 7 A Christmas Sermon on Peace / 85Lesson 8 Left for Dead / 96Lesson 9 Spell of the Rising Moon / 105Unit Four Reading Scientific andTechnical ArticlesIntroduction to Scientific and Technical Articles / 114Lesson 10 Our Picture of the Universe / 119Lesson 11 Mind over Machine / 130Lesson 12 2 Inches Between Life， Death / 140Unit Five Reading Short Stories and NovelsIntroduction to Short Stories and Novels / 151Lesson 13 Cat in the Rain / 154Lesson 14 The Stolen Party / 162Lesson 15 A Summer’s Reading / 173

Unit One Reading News ReportsIntroduction to News ReportsNews reporting mainly performs two functions:1. Its dominant function is to give information, so the language used in news reporting serves the referential function.2. Its secondary (or subordinate) function is to reflect, shape and sway pubic opinion, so the language of news reporting is also conative in function.Headlines Tenses in headlines. In the news reporting, the simple past tense is always used in the body text because the job of a reporter is to tell his reader what has just happened in the world. But things are quite different with the headlines, which serve to catch the attention of potential readers. 1. Use of simple present tense The simple present tense is preferred to refer to the past or the recent past. This use of the simple past tense conveys a sense of recency—an important value in news event. It seems as if the reporter were unfolding the scene before the reader’s eyes. 2. Use of simple past tense Though quite rare in headlines, the simple past tense does occur. It is, then, used to emphasize a past fact as shown in the examples below: What Did Bush Know? Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers 3. Use of past participles A usual journalistic practice is to delete the auxiliary verb be in the headlines where the passive voice is involved. So only the past participle is left, and the reference may be to the past, the present or occasionally to the future: Past Bush Warned of Hijackings Before 9/11 Present Profound Effect on U.S. Economy Seen in a War on Iraq Future More Time Required to Forge Trade Settlement……