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Unit One 1

Text A:The Nature of Mathematics 1

Contents 1

Text B:A Short Story about a Schoolboy in Babylonian Times 9

Unit Two 12

Text A:Cloning Good Science or Bad Idea 12

Text B:Gene Rustlers 21

Unit Three 25

Text A:How to Change Your Point of View 25

Text B:Two Truths to Live By—Hold Fast and Let Go 32

Unit Four 36

Text A:Management Skills 36

Text B:The Definition of Management 42

Text A:Aging World,New Wrinkles 45

Unit Five 45

Text B:Are the Sexes Reaching Parity in Longevity 54

Unit Six 58

Text A:Fiscal and Monetary Policy 58

Text B:Banks and Banking 64

Unit Seven 67

Text A:Freud and Dreams 67

Text B:Origins of the Mind 75

Unit Eight 79

Text A:Education forTonorrow 79

Text B:Schooling and Education 87

Unit Nine 89

Text A:Facing Risks 89

Text B:Secrets of Success 94

Text A:Bill Gates Speech to Tsinghua University 98

Unit Ten 98

Text B:Brief Highlights in the History of Electric Power 106

Unit Eleven 111

Text A:Ozone Crisis 111

Text B:Uncle Sam's Next Environmental Target:Farms 119

Unit Twelve 123

Text A:Logic of Charging Tuition Fees 123

Text B:Research Reports for Business and Technical Writing 131

Unit Thirteen 135

Text A:Who's Crazy 135

Text B:Control Units 142

Unit Fourteen 146

Text A:Physics and Society 146

Text B:The Idea of Time 155

Text A:Information Handling and Processing 158

Unit Fifteen 158

Text B:Analog Computers and Digital Computers 167

Unit Sixteen 171

Text A:Job Interviews 171

Text B:Letters of Application 178

Unit Seventeen 182

Text A:Message to the Unknown 182

Text B:Are There Strangers in Space? 189

Unit Eighteen 192

Text A:Earth in the Balance 192

Text B:Ships in the Desert 198

Test Yourself: 201

Paper One 201

Paper Two 211

后记 213