新闻听力经济词汇： Unit 2： Jerry`s wedding eleven years ago to a Chinese-American was "both white and red", he said, with his bride wearing a white wedding gown at a Protestant church ceremony (because both he and his wife are Christians) and then changing to a red dress after the wedding for their reception banquet at a Chinatown restaurant. Another Chinese-American friend in California sent us their wedding invitation. Following the American custom, he included a smaller envelope and card for us to send back to tell them if we would attend the wedding or not. But instead of using the usual white color for the envelope and cards, he and his bride chose Chinese red. The invitation itself combing English and Chinese, just as their church wedding ceremony did.

Unit3： Watching television is the most popular leisure-time activity in Britain. Peak viewing time is between 7:30 and 10 o’clock in the evenings. The two age groups which watch television most are children between 5 and 14 and people over 50. Children aged 5 to 14 watch television on average for 23 hours a week. The over-fifties watch on average for 17 hours a week. Television is divided between BBC1, BBC2 and the commercial station, ITV. There is no great difference between BBC1 and BBC2 and ITV, but programmes on BBC2 tend to be of a more intellectual or cultural nature. Programmes before 9 pm are also suitable for children, so programmes with scenes of violence or sex are usually shown after this time. Most viewers in Britain switch off the television after about 10:30 and go to bed. Those who want to stay up can often watch a film or a "chat show", an interview with a famous personality, until 1 am. However , the most popular programmes of all are the news bulletins Unit12： When you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small: one half a step too late, or too early, and you don't quite make it; one-half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when add up all those inches that's going to make the fucking difference between winning and losing, between living and dying!

Unit13： Music experts say John Lennon did not invent rock and roll. Yet he did more than anyone else to change it, move it forward and add social meaning to its songs. Many experts call him one of the greatest songwriters in the history of rock and roll. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum organized an exhibit about John Lennon. Visitors can see hundreds of objects from Lennon's life. There are reports from his teachers when he was a boy about his school work. More than thirty paintings and drawings he made throughout his life are shown: the suit he wore as a member of the Beatles, his guitars and piano, and the handwritten words for twenty-five of his most famous songs. John Lennon helped form the Beatles in the 1960s. The group changed the sound of rock and roll music. Later, John Lennon wrote songs that expressed his efforts for truth, peace and human rights. Recently, a British music magazine asked several songwriters, producers and musicians to name the best songs of the last century. They chose John Lennon's "In My Life" as the top song.

Unit15： There's been a perception that the recent rise in oil prices was because of the situation in Iraq and because of speculation—that is, temporary factors. Officials in G7 now say, though, that oil is scarcer than previously thought. In other words, that there's a longer-term shortage pushing prices up. On top of that, they recognize that strong Chinese economic growth will put more pressure on scarce supplies. As the G7-plus-China meeting gets under way, ministers from Britain and Germany want efforts made to get more information out to try to diminish the large amount of speculation in the oil market. Last time the G7 ministers met, the British finance minister led an attempt to talk the price down by urging producers to increase supply. The exhortation had little effect, with the price rising anyway. Now it seems that ministers may be accepting that we're moving into a world of permanently higher oil prices that will dampen economic growth.