童一主编的《欧美经贸报刊阅读与思考》适用于普通高等院校、高等职业学院、成人高等学校的商务英语专业大一、大二年级学生的必修课或专业选修课，也适用于这类学校非商务英语专业学生的任意选修课，同时也可作为爱好商务英语的在校大学生和公司商务人才的自学教材，或作为任何对国际商务感兴趣的人员的阅读材料。 每个单元的前两篇文章后有“Read to Search”“Readto Think”和“Read to Create”三大练习。其中，“Read to Search”主要训练学生搜集、整理资料，以培养学生自主学习的能力；“Read to Think”是根据文章主题设计的开放式讨论题，教师可根据课时安排课堂讨论，也可作为学生课外的口语／书面作业；“Read to Create”主要培养学生的写作能力。这三大练习有助于提升学生的商务英语读写能力。每个单元的三篇文章都附有参考译文，其目的是帮助学生通过双语对照更好地理解英语原文。

UNIT 1 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Text Tom Cook's Apple: More Collaborative, More Profitable
Further Reading Beyond the Stars, Elon Musk Aims for Mars
Reading Practice Corporations Save More Than $700B Via Offshore Tax Havens
UNIT 2 POLITICS AND BUSINESS
Text America's Looming Debt Decision
Further Reading From Icahn's Lips to Trump's Economic Policy Plan
Reading Practice Infrastructure Investment's Missing Link
UNIT 3 COMPETITION IN BUSINESS
Text Samsung's Awful Smartphone Launch Is a Holiday Gift to Google
Further Reading If Amazon Is Really Opening Brick-and-Mortar Grocery Stores, It's a Big Deal
Reading Practice Hulu, Amazon Still Looking up at Netflix
UNIT 4 ECONOMIC POLICIES
Text Helicopter Money Is in the Air
Further Reading For Oil Drillers, Obama Methane Rule Is Worse than Proposed
Reading Practice Embattled Bankers Embrace Trump's Call for Deregulation: "Profit Is Not a Four-Letter Word"
UNIT 5 MORALITY IN BUSINESS
Text "It Goes Well Beyond Wells Fargo": Concerns Grow over Sales Tactics in Banking Industry
Further Reading How a Scorned Industry of Lenders Plans to Keep the 400 Percent Loan Around
Reading Practice Wall Street Making Big Bucks from Overdraft Fees--Again
UNIT 6 GREAT AMBITION
Text On the Cusp of an AI Revolution
Further Reading Target Offers a Sneak Peek at How It Plans to Get You to Open Your Wallet
Reading Practice Nanotechnology: How the "Science of Small Things" Is Solving Big Problems
UNIT 7 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Text AT&T to Buy Time Warner for $85.4 Billion
Further Reading Why Microsoft Wanted Linkedln
Reading Practice These Are the 12 Biggest Mergers and Acquisitions of 2016
UNIT 8 UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Text Will Electric Cars Turn the World Upside down?
Further Reading The Internet: An Invisible Battleground
Reading Practice Watch Earth Pulse with Earthquakes and Eruptions in This Stunning Visualization
KEY TO THE EXERCRISES