1. New scientist
The New Scientist is simply a magical book.
The source of CET-4 and CET-6, TOEFL/IELTS and SAT reading, and 2 IELTS reading questions in 10 come from it! Magazines often publish some comments, such as environmental issues such as climate change, and the contents of such magazines are likely to appear in reading natural science articles.
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* * *** 》(The New York Times) is a daily newspaper published in new york, USA, with a worldwide circulation and considerable influence.
It is the representative of American serious newspapers and periodicals, and has long had good credibility and authority.
3. Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution is an organization of a series of museums and research institutions in the United States.
The organization includes 19 museums, 9 research centers, art galleries and the National Zoo, and 65,438+3.65 million works of art and specimens.
It is also the only semi-official third-sector museum institution funded by the United States, and also has the largest museum system and research consortium in the world.
Management and funds come from American grants, other donations and profits from selling their own shops and magazines.
The Smithsonian Institution's website also has a large number of articles and various genres. Compared with The New York Times, its articles are more popular.
4. National Geographic-the favorite of photo control
If you want to practice English, but don't want to read long reports, then National Geographic is the best choice.
The text of National Geographic is not as difficult as The Economist, but the content is interesting, divorced from charts, involving geography, history, culture, food, photography and many other aspects.
In a word, this magazine can bring readers a lot of reading and improve their English invisibly.
Illustrated with pictures and texts, it makes people linger.
5. Scientific American
Scientific American, formerly named Scientific American in English, is a popular science magazine in the United States. From August 28th, 1845, weekly magazine will be published first, and then monthly magazine will be published. It is the longest-running magazine in the United States and the sister magazine of the famous Science magazine.
Up to now, 15 1 Nobel Prize winners have written articles.
In 2009, four writers of this magazine won the Nobel Prize.
From June 55438 to February 2005, the monthly domestic (American) circulation was about 555,000, and the international circulation was about 90,000.
Although it is regarded as a popular high-level academic journal, the journal does not use peer review similar to Nature, but provides a forum to introduce scientific theories and new scientific discoveries.
If most magazines are suitable for liberal arts students, Scientific American is definitely the favorite of science and engineering students, especially graduate students and doctoral students. If you want to publish SCI papers, Scientific Americans can provide not only template routines, but also cutting-edge scientific thinking and writing methods.
6. The New Yorker-Wen Qing's favorite
Founded in 1925, The New Yorker has gone through more than 90 years, and has been an evergreen tree in the magazine industry after the changes of paper media, electronic media and social media.
Although a quarter of the New Yorker's pages are about new york's local culture, and it has a column "Talking about the Town", its high-quality in-depth coverage has made its readers spread all over the world.
First of all, we must admit that The New Yorker is a young publication in this paper, and its columns include novels, poetry reviews, book reviews, film reviews and music reviews.
At the same time, in-depth reports on current events and domestic and foreign politics show its ultimate ambition, and high-quality reports often make it favored by Pulitzer Prize.
Compared with the elite academics of The Economist and The Times, The New Yorker is more suitable for young people to get a glimpse of contemporary American literature and accent. On sunny weekend afternoons, they can put down endless paper experiments, feel the daily life of new york metropolis, experience the pioneering culture and improve their English reading level.
Articles in The New Yorker often appear in ACT, TOEFL and IELTS.
Reading The New Yorker helps to improve the sense of language and cultivate the ability of logical thinking. It is a rare authentic reading for learning English.
7. The Economist
It's a random reading question bank! Postgraduate English, IELTS, TOEFL and GRE all have articles by The Economist. Although you may not be able to choose the right answer, only that familiarity can make you relax and jump for joy in a tense examination environment!
It is a constantly updated writing material library and vocabulary library, and the themes and arguments of many articles are of great reference significance to English writing, especially IELTS writing.
Not to mention the vocabulary, many great gods say that after reading The Economist, the vocabulary has soared!