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PAPT Ⅰ INTENSIVE READINGS 1

Passage 1 These Boots Are Made for Power Walking 1

Passage 2 Chopping Spree 4

Passage 3 Do You Fall Asleep Uncontrollably 7

Passage 4 Robocopters 11

Passage 5 Teen s Research Wins $40,000 Prize 14

Passage 6 New Specs Help Color-bilnd 17

Passage 7 Coming Soon:Videos by Phone 20

Passage 8 More Accurate GPS 23

Passage 9 Secrets of Prehistoric Rocks Revealed 27

Passage 10 Unvaccinated Kids Put Themselves and Others at Risk 31

Passage 11 Extract Precious Metal from Soil 35

Passage 12 Dialing for Danger 38

Passage 13 Ghost Busted in Haunted Rooms 41

Passage 14 Name That Tune 45

Passage 15 Making Cars and Light Trucks Equal under the Law 48

Passage 16 A Car Running on Air 52

Passage 17 “Lost City” Found on Ocean Floor 55

Passage 18 The Moon s So Bright,I Gotta Wear Shades 59

Passage 19 Antimatter Might Whisk Humans into Deep Space 63

Passage 20 Blood Swap Cures Paralysis 67

Passage 21 Making the Switch 70

Passage 22 Dousing Wildfires 74

Passage 23 Happy Ending for Stale Beer and Heavy Metal 77

Passage 24 Dangerous Dogs 81

Passage 25 Frosty Space Dust May Have Seeded Life 85

Passage 26 Do Humans Have a Sixth Sense 89

Passage 27 Iguanas Experience Shrinkage 93

Passage 28 Warning:Don t Sleep Wearing Soft Contacts 97

Passage 29 Does a Dental X Pay Do Damage 101

Passage 30 New Atomic Clock 105

Passage 31 Drug-Resistant Germ Breaks Out 109

Passage 32 Some Drinkers Have Good Reason to Celebrate 113

Passage 33 Great Flood Evidence Found 117

Passage 34 Land Powerde by the Rising Sun 121

Passage 35 Will Oceans Dry Up 125

Passage 36 Poisoning Blamed for Beethoven s Sickness 129

Passage 37 Candid Camera 133

Passage 38 One Brave Boy 137

Passage 39 Mars:Great Lakes 141

Passage 40 Do Bad Teeth Drive Lions Wild 145

Passage 41 Fish Is Food for Thought 149

Passage 42 Hand-Shaking Chimps Get to Grips with Culture 153

Passage 43 Alien Abductions Diagnosed as a Bad Night s Sleep 157

Passage 44 Flabby Minds 161

Passage 45 How to Stop Global Warming 165

Passage 46 Life Is Sweet 169

Passage 47 Heart Transplantation 173

Passage 48 How Does the Debris Flow 177

Passage 49 Antarctic Research 181

Passage 50 World Weather Variation 185

PAPT Ⅱ EXTENSIVE READINGS 189

Extensive Reading 1 Keep an Eye on Dad 189

Extensive Reading 2 A Tenth Planet 192

Extensive Reading 3 Thick Ice Scraped Rock Bottom in Arctic 194

Extensive Reading 4 Lost Continent Found 197

Extensive Reading 5 The Day the Dynamo Died 200

Extensive Reading 6 Whizz-kid Computer 203

Extensive Reading 7 Water on Mars 206

Extensive Reading 8 Call Phone Hang-ups 209

Extensive Reading 9 Internet,Hold the Appliance 213

Extensive Reading 10 Would You Live in Space 217

KEY TO EXERCISES 223

GLOSSARY 253

附录：美国各州州名及缩写表 275