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CONTENTS 1

目录 1

1．Adult Education 1

2．An Open-Classroom System 5

3．Wind Power 9

4．The World of Robots 12

5．Computers 15

6．Can It Really Happen? 18

7．How New York Became America s Largest City 22

8．The Uses of Science 26

9．Elements and Atoms 30

10．Conservation of Energy 34

1 1．What Makes Objects Float? 37

12．Why Study Math? 41

13．Radio Telescope 46

14．The Energy Crisis 50

15．Petroleum(Ⅰ) 53

16．Petroleum(Ⅱ) 57

17．Clocks through Time 61

18．The Youngest Painter in the World 66

19．The Twenty-First Century 70

20．The First Supersonic Flight 73

21．Markets 77

22．Has the United States Lost Its Ability to Compete? 80

23．Culture and Market 84

24．He Led a Useful Life 87

25．Learning by Doing 92

26．Interview 95

27．Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well? 99

28．Facts about Gases,Liquids and Solids 103

29．The King of Comedy 106

30．Carbon 111

31．The Architect 114

32．Heat Loss from the Human Body 117

33．The Petrochemical Industry 121

34．The First Postage Stamp 125

35．American s Life in the New Age of Science and Technology 129

36．Does Travel Broaden the Mind? 133

37．The Planemakers 138

38．Measurement 141

39．The Scientific Exploration of Space 144

40．The Salt of the Earth 147

41．Oil as A Fuel 151

42．Preface(From The Petroleum Dictionary) 155

43．Petroleum Recovery 158

44．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅰ) 162

45．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅱ) 166

46．The 40,000-Mile Phone Call 170

47．Latent Heat 174

48．Jules Verne 178

49．Crude Oil Prices 182

50．Oil Drilling 185

51．Water 189

52．Molecules 193

53．Mass 197

54．Energy and Public Safety 201

55．A World without Oil 205

56．Refining Petroleum 209

57．The Oil Companies 213

58．The Engineering Profession 217

59．Language Learning 221

60．Can Stress Make You Sick? 224

61．Smoking and Cancer 227

62．How Americans Eat and Drink 231

63．Scientists Laboring to Make Computers Learn to Think 235

64．Supertelevision 239

65．An Ultrasonic Torch 243

66．The Telephone and Its Inventor 247

67．The Crisis of Government Policy in Energy 252

68．How the Canadian Experience Can Contribute to China s GrowingPetroleum Industry 256

69．Economic Justification 259

70．Petroleum Engineering Education in the Year 2000 263

71．Energy:Global Prospects 1985—2000 268

72．Culture Shock and the Petroleum of Adjustment in New CulturalEnvironments 272

73．What Science Is? 278

74．Scientific Knowledge 282

75．Sources of Error in Scientific Investigation 285

76．Minerals,Metals and Mining 289

77．Improving Industrial Efficiency through Robotics 293

78．World Food and Natural Resources Outlook in 2000 296

79．The Changing Concept of Marketing 300

80．Earth Resources Technology Satellites 303

81．Small Business 306

82．What s Your Best Time of Day? 310

83．Foreign Exchange Trading 315

84．Computers in Education(Ⅰ) 319

85．Computers in Education(Ⅱ) 323

86．How Does A Computer“Follow Instructions”？ 327

87．The Second Information Revolution 331

88．The Environmental Pollution 335

89．Making Steels of Very High Strengths 338

90．Foreword 342

91．The Metric System 347

92．The Corporation 352

93．The Age of Superstuff 355

94．How Laws Are Passed 359

95．How and When to Give Your Car a Break 362

96．Advertisements 368

97．Control Earthquakes 373

98．Congestion 377

99．International Cooperation of Science 380

100．Preface 384

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