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Unit 1　Life Science 1

Text A　Human Cloning 1

Text B　Are We 10 Years Away from Artificial Life? 7

Unit 2　Biological Engineering 12

Text A　How Stem Cells Work? 12

Text B　Taking Your Genes in Hand 18

Unit 3　New Energy 23

Text A　Ethanol,Schmethanol 23

Text B　The Coming Wave 29

Unit 4　Transportation 34

Text A　Intelligent Highways 34

Text B　Making Waves 39

Unit 5　New Facilities 46

Text A　Facial Recognition Systems 46

Text B　GPS-the Most Precise Navigation System Ever Invented 52

Unit 6　Telecommunication 59

Text A　Video Conferencing Cell Phones 59

Text B　You Are Your Cell Phone 65

Unit 7　Space 70

Text A　Starship Enterprise:the Next Generation 70

Text B　Phoenix to Go Digging on Red Planet 77

Unit 8　Health and Medicine 83

Text A　Telemedicine Comes Home 83

Text B　Would a"Fat Tax"Save Lives? 88

Unit 9　Internet 92

Text A　The Internet Is Sick...But We Can Make It Better 92

Text B　Watching While You Surf 99

Unit 10　VR Technology 105

Text A　The Military Applications of Virtual Reality 105

Text B　Reality,Only Better 111

Unit 11　Robots 116

Text A　Rise of the Rat-brained Robots 116

Text B　Nothing to Lose But Their Chains 122

Unit 12　Environment 129

Text A　Future Crops:the Other Greenhouse Effect 129

Text B　The Methane Mystery 135

Unit 13　Animals 141

Text A　Jellyfish Invasion 141

Text B　Who Belongs in the Zoo? 146

Unit 14　Computer Science 151

Text A　Software That Makes Software Better 151

Text B　From Blueprint to Database 157

Unit 15　Automobile 163

Text A　How Hydrogen-Boosted Gasoline Engine Works? 163

Text B　The Car Doctor Is In 168