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Unit 1 Impressive Stories 1

Text 1 Galileo and the Pendulum 1

Text 2 Strange Minds 6

Text 3 The Man Who Made McDonald's Popular Around the World 11

Text 4 A Leaf from Heaven 16

Unit 2 Wonderful Nature 21

Text 1 Breathing Sea Water 21

Text 2 Snow 26

Text 3 The Mystery of Time 31

Text 4 Wonders of the World—Modern Structures 36

Unit 3 Great Inventions 41

Text 1 The Development of Cinema Film 41

Text 2 The Man Who Lighted the World 46

Text 3 Two Inventions That Have Helped Save Lives：Seatbelts and Kevlar 51

Text 4 The Strange Birth of Television 56

Unit 4 Useful Energies 61

Text 1 Using the Sun 61

Text 2 Plastics—Man's Most Useful Material 67

Text 3 Taking the Hot Air out of Wind Power 72

Text 4 Danger!Atomic Waste! 77

Unit 5 Health 82

Text 1 Want to Eat Less?Imagine Eating More 82

Text 2 How to Help Your Depressed Teen 88

Text 3 Walking for Exercise and Pleasure 94

Text 4 Smoking：It's Never Too Late to Stop 99

Unit 6 Culture 104

Text 1 Meet the Downsized Generation：Millennials Who Are Rewriting the Rules for Success 104

Text 2 What Unites These States? 110

Text 3 Confucianism in China 116

Text 4 Ten Benefits of Reading：Why You Should Read Every Day 120

Text 1 Three Myths on the World's Poor 126

Text 2 Building a Country by Switching on the Lights 132

Text 3 Feeding the Planet Without Destroying It 137

Text 4 Turning up the Volume on Climate Change Isn't Changing Behaviour 142

Unit 8 Future world 147

Text 1 The Future of Personal Computing：Cloud-Connected Screens Everywhere 147

Text 2 Why We Have to Turn Electronic Devices Off on Planes 152

Text 3 How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health? 158

Text 4 Can Schools Survive in the Age of the Web? 163

Keys to Exercises 168

参考文献 172