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Unit One American Domestic Affairs（Ⅰ）1

Lesson One：Lobbyists Out of Shadows Into The Spotlight（U．S．News World Report，February 25，1985）1

Lesson Two：Graying Armies March to Defend Social Security（U．S．News World Report，April，29，1985）12

Lesson Three：Busting the Mob（U．S．News World Report，February 3，1986）19

Unit Two American Domestic Affairs（Ⅱ）29

Lesson Four：The State of American Values（U．S．News World Report，December 9，1985）29

Lesson Five：Furor Over Pentagon's“Revolving Door”（U．S．News World Report，April 29，1985）43

Lesson Six：West Point Makes a Comeback（Time，November 4，1985）51

Unit Three American Domestic Affairs（Ⅲ）64

Lesson Seven：The Rich Get Richer and Elected（The New York Times，September 24，1985）64

Lesson Eight：Dynasty needing a stronger cast（The Times，January 2，1986）74

Lesson Nine：Four More Years（U．S．News World Report，November19，1984）82

Lesson Ten：Now for Reaganism post-Reagan（The Economist，March 30，1985）97

Unit Four American Domestic Affairs（Ⅳ）107

Lesson Eleven：“Go Ahead—Make My Day”（Time，March 25，1985）107

Lesson Twelve：A Battle Over Defen se（Newsweek，February 11，1985）117

Lesson Thirteen：The State of The Union （The Washington post，February 5，1986）130

Lesson Fourteen：The State of The Union（continued）140

Unit Five British Domestic Affairs149

Lesson Fifteen：Think small：Labour's line for'86（The Times，January 3，1986）149

Lesson Sixteen：Two essentials for Tory survival （The Times，September 5，1985）153

Lesson Seventeen：Does‘Thatcherism'Work？（Newsweek，May 13，1985）161

Lesson Eighteen：Maybe the Thatcher revolution is complete（The Financial Times，January 31，1986）167

Lesson Nineteen：Thatcher's Narrow Escape（Newsweek，October 22，1984）178

Unit Six British Domestic Affairs and Foreign Policy178

Lesson Twenty：35 years'jail for inhuman'IRA bomber188

（The Times，June 24，1986）188

Lesson Twenty-one：Mugwump Britain（The Spectator，May 3，1986）193

Unit Seven American Foreign Policy200

Lesson Twenty-two：Richard Nixon's Tough Assessment（Time，April 15，1985）200

Lesson Twenty-three：Reagan Ⅱ：A Foreign Policy Consensus？（Time，December 10，1984）207

Lesson Twenty-four：A Foreign Policy Without a Focus（Newsweek，January 7，1985）224

Lesson Twenty-five：Reagan's Warrior Diplomacy（The New York Times，March 27，1985）230