*新出版的《普通高中英語課程標準（2017 年版）》（人民教育出版社），將英語報刊閱讀納入了普通高中英語課程中，作為選修類課程。此舉意味著英語報刊閱讀在高中英語學習階段勢必占有一席之地，其重要性也可窺一斑。四六級英語考試等大學英語考試，還有托福、雅思、 SAT 等考試，有相當一部分的素材，特別是閱讀素材都是選自原汁原味的外刊。但是外刊上的文章五花八門，切實符合各種考試的選材要求的少之又少，比如雅思考試和高考中出現的文章，層次分明，一目了然，內容的積極性和科學性要求較高。在難度上，比如高考閱讀，逐年增加些許難度，2017 年江蘇高考閱讀材料直接選用 The Economist 上的文章。
針對上述情況，作者從*近一年的英美國家主流報刊中精選了一批題材多樣、體裁各異的文章，並邀請具有豐富命題經驗的大學和高中一線英語教師，參照各種中高級英語命題風格進行解讀和習題設置。本書旨在將原汁原味的外媒文章帶給讀者，幫著讀者熟悉外媒文章的文風，提高外媒文章的閱讀理解能力，從而自如地應對考試。

《三味外刊精華》的策劃和編寫圍繞以下五個維度展開：
1. 語篇來源：本書共計 53 篇文章，分別選自三十餘種世界知名刊物近一年期間發布的文章。入選的文章文風迥異，內容鮮活，涉及面廣，緊密對接大學和高中新課標英語課程內容。
2. 語篇內容：入選語篇涉及了人與自我、人與社會、人與自然三大主題語境，涵蓋記敘文、說明文、議論文和應用文四大語篇類型。
3. 語篇難度：參考高考較難的語篇難度，兼顧大學英語考試平均難度，我們對入選語篇進行了仔細的解讀。即使讀者英語水平很一般，有了我們的解讀，基本上都能暢讀下來。
4. 語篇解讀：眾所周知，現在各種高級考試都對語篇結構的把握提出了很高的要求，因此我們特地設計了“話題概要”欄目，這個部分能讓讀者以*快速度檢驗自己是不是把握了文章。
5. 語篇練習：學習外刊文章，除了研習英語語篇思維外，語言的學習必不可少。書中設置的練習基本上圍繞詞塊進行，提醒讀者進行佳句模仿。

孫三五，江蘇優秀一線教師，從教15年，出版著作百部，如《英語寫作王中王》《閱讀理解王中王》等，發表了300多篇英語命題和解題研究文章，連續五年被《英語周報》評為“功勛作者”和“精英作者”。多年來在江蘇各市名校和教研室組織下的師資培訓中做高考考前培訓講座，包括海門教研室、宜興中學、常州中學、梁豐高中等。獨立開發並形成了自己的“飚記英語”教學理論體繫。曾受邀請在全國各地如安徽、山東等做過200多次講座，並在外研社主辦的全國英語觀摩大會上做理論示範課講解，受到熱烈的歡迎。
徐志堅，獨課教育創始人，托福/SAT教學專家，中國翻譯協會會員，美國匹茲堡大學語言學碩士，現受聘於上海多所國際高中，擔任北美留學項目總監。著有《循“徐”漸近—CROSS聽彙法攻克托福聽力》《 循“徐”漸進，高“歌”而行—新SAT語法寫作實戰攻略》。他在音樂教育領域也頗有建樹，是目前為數不多的能全英文教授AP音樂理論、IB西方音樂史和作曲技法類課程的老師，同時也涉獵英國皇家音樂考試、美國聯邦音樂考試的教學教研工作。
吳則磊，英語教學名師，原***示範性高中英語教師，吉地教育創始人兼董事長，熟悉高考英語命題規律。曾多次接受新浪網、人民網、騰訊等知名網站教育頻道專訪。業內為數不多的高考英語命題與教學復合型人纔。

01 Harlan Ellison[M]
科幻大師哈蘭?埃裡森
1 The great AM, the supercomputer/tormentor/god at the centre of Harlan Ellison’s story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (1967), outdid its creator in bile（憎恨） and anger. But not by all that much. ①Celebrated as a pyrotechnic（出色的） writer?of?short?fiction,?screenplays,?comic?books and criticism, Mr Ellison was as prodigious（巨大的） a source of anecdote, vendetta and litigation. The dust jacket of one book called him “possibly the most contentious（有爭議的）person on Earth.”
2 Mr Ellison would unleash his indignant and ingenious fury on anyone who offended him, relishing every opportunity to rage at reactionaries（保守分子）and Republicans. But he saved his?fiercest?and?most?litigious?ire（怒火） for people who had snubbed（冷落）, perverted（侵害）,stolen or paid too little for his work. He was expelled from Ohio State University for hitting a professor who once belittled his writing ability. Over the next 20 years he sent the professor a copy of every story he published. In the midst of a dispute over a contract, he mailed 213 bricks to a publisher, postage to be paid by the recipient. He accused a studio executive of having the intellectual capacity of an artichoke（洋薊） . A YouTube rant （怒吼） about Warner Bros wanting to use an interview with him without paying has become justly famous. ②“I’ve only been an asshole to assholes,” he would say; he seemed to come across enough of them to remain almost permanently in their ranks.
3 Mr Ellison was small and Jewish, both of which got him bullied a lot growing up in Cleveland in the 1930s and 1940s. On leaving home he claimed to have become a crop-picker, tuna（金槍魚） fisherman,?gun?for?hire（合約殺手）, nitroglycerine（硝化甘油） truck driver, lithographer （石印工） , short-order cook, door-to-door salesman both of books and brushes (not at the same time)?and?a?customer-services?representative?in?a?department?store.?He?wrote?his?first?novel,?“Web?of the City”, while undergoing basic training for the army at Fort Benning, Georgia. Previously peripatetic（流動工作的） , in 1962 he moved to California and stayed there. It was not exactly a?settling?down.?By?the?1980s?Mr?Ellison?had?had?five?wives.?He?credited the last, Susan Toth, whom he wed in 1986, with saving him.
4 Novels, although he wrote three between 1958 and 1961, turned out not to be his thing. ③“Mr Ellison’s stories”, his friend, the writer Neil Gaiman, says, “sparkle and glitter（閃光） and shine and wound and howl…you can see Harlan experimenting, trying new things, new techniques, new voices.” To maintain such intensity and inventiveness for hundreds of pages would have been exhausting to all concerned.
5 The stories repeatedly garnered him science fiction’s top prizes; he won eight of the Hugo awards?voted?on?by?fans?at?science?fiction’s?world?conventions,?or?WorldCons.?One?of?those?Hugos was for writing “The City on the Edge of Forever”, perhaps the most popular episode of “Star Trek（星 際 迷 航） ” (and the occasion of an epic feud with the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry). ④Another was for editing “Dangerous Visions” (1967), an anthology that served as a rallying-point?for?the?“New?Wave”?of?science?fiction.
6 His television work was feted, too; the Writers Guild of America honoured three more of his teleplays, as well as the one for “Star Trek”. One of his lawsuits（訴訟） accused the producers of “The Terminator（終結者） ” (1984) of ripping off his script for “Soldier” (1964), an episode of “The Outer Limits” about a remorselessly（無情地） efficient?soldier?thrown?back?in?time?who?ends up saving a family. ⑤He also sued the producers of “In Time” (2011) for its similarities to another of his Hugo winners,“‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” (1965), which explores repression in a world where time can be conserved, like energy, to be recycled and used later; on that occasion, though, he dropped the suit.