Unit 1

Text A China's Securities Markets Open to Foreign Investment

Text B Euro-area Economies in 2002

Unit 2

Text A The Monetary Focus

Text B Convergence Period

Unit 3

Text A Housing Market

Text B Promoting the Noble Cause of Commerce

Unit 4

Text A Automobile Industry

Text B Battling over the Bankrupt

Unit 5

Text A IT Grows UP

Text B Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics

Unit 6

Text A United Seeks Bankruptcy Protection

Text B “Creative Destruction”and United Airlines

Unit 7

Text A Polishing Its New Industry

Text B Yanking the Welcome Mat for Foreign MBAs

Unit 8

Text A Is Britain Europe's New Sick Man?

Text B Rate-Cutting Time in Europe?

Unit 9

Text A Intel's $10 Billion Gamble

Text B Shenzhen：The New Bangalore?

Unit 10

Text A What's Next On the Agenda?

Text B China's Year in WTO Gets a Mixed Review

Unit 11

Text A international Finaneial System Meets Challenge

Text B Learning to Love the Euro

Unit 12

Text A Gares Against a Wall

Text B Asian Seeks Regiollal Trade Pacts

Unit 13

Text A Women Directors in the USA

Text B Cains for the Individual Firm

Unit 14

Text A India Versus Coca Cola and IBM

Text B Youths Dream of Easy,Online Wealth Get-Rich-Quick Plans Crushed

Unit 15

Text A China's Technology Trade and Development of Hi-Tech Sectors

Text B Dotcoms Losing Their Wizards

Unit 16

Text A Corporate America's Woes

Text B Economy Crows at Brisk 4 Percent Rate

Unit 17

Text A Securing the C1oud

Text B Asian Stock Markets Retreat, Fresh U.S.Data Looms

Unit 18

Texl A A New Kind of Solidarity

Text B Big Retail Holiday Weekend Raises Hope

Unit 19

Text A The Unlikeliest Scourge

Text B Corrected-Forex-Weak U.S.Stocks Undermine Dollar

Unit 20

Text A President Holds Town Hall Forum on Economy in California

Text B Economy Recovers But Not Totally Healthy

Unit 21

Text A Does Population Matter?

Text B A Year of Surprises

Unit 22

Text A Economic Trends

Text B Business Travel

Unit 23

Text A Miracle Economy?

Text B Cash in on Your Vision

Unit 24

Text A The Future Prospects of U.S.-China Economic Relations

Text B Bush to Settle on Key Players of Economic Team

Unit 25

Text A Let It Snow

Text B Oil Jumps as Venezuela Strike Continues

Unit 26

Text A Beyond Solvency

Text B Orders Show Japan Recovery in Rut

Unit 27

Text A The Economics of Terrorism

Text B Funds:"Taking on"Mutual Funds

Unit 28

Text A Social Seeurity Privatization—Tax Increases

Text B Jobless Rate Soars,Matches 8-Year High

Unit 29

Text A Social Security Privatization—Benefit Cuts and Government Investing

Text B Asian Stock Markets Close Lower

Unit 30

Text A Taming the Oil Beast

Text B China：The Tricks of Trade

Keys to the Exercises