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Unit One Social Security 1

Topic Reading:Extracts about Social Security 1

Extract 1 Social Security 1

Extract 2 Child Benefit 4

Extract 3 The Social Security Act 7

Extract 4 How the Social Fund Can Help You 10

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 16

Extract 1 Strangers in Our Homes:TV and Our Children s Minds 21

Topic Reading:Extracts from TV Violence and Children 21

Unit Two Television and Children 21

Extract 2 Teaching Boys to Kill 25

Extract 3 Pulling the Plug on Television s Sex and Violence 27

Extract 4 Monkey See，Monkey Do Debate Targets Sex and Violence 29

Extract 5 The V-Chip Controversy 31

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 38

Unit Three Banking 45

Topic Reading:Banking Extracts 45

Extract 1 Banks and Banking 45

Extract 2 Computerized Banking 49

Extract 3 The World Bank 51

Extract 4 The Federal Reserve System 54

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 57

Unit Four Genetic Engineering 64

Topic Reading:Genetic Engineering 64

Extract 1 Introduction 64

Extract 2 Patenting Recombinant DNA Products 67

Extract 3 Clone 68

Extract 4 Why Clone? 70

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 78

Unit Five Computer and Internet 82

Topic Reading:Computer Networking 82

Extract 1 Internet 82

Extract 2 AOL Warns Members to Keep Passwords Under Wraps 85

Extract 3 Outlook Email Security Update Now Available 86

Extract 4 IBM Aims to Put Computers on the Wrist 90

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 95

Extract 1 Free Trade 101

Unit Six Trade 101

Topic Reading 1:Extracts about Trade and Trade Organizations 101

Extract 2 Trade Organization 105

Topic Reading 2:The Future of International Trade in Services 109

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 115

Unit Seven Space Exploration 120

Topic Reading:Extracts from Space Exploration 120

Extract 1 ECLS and Human Space Flight 120

Extract 2 Looking for Earth-Like Planet 122

Extract 3 ULYSSES-The Solar Polar Mission 125

Extract 4 Galileo Mission 128

Extract 5 Four-Wheeling on the Moon 130

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 134

Unit Eight Environment 139

Topic Reading:Extracts about Environment 139

Extract 1 Environment 139

Extract 2 Radioactive Fallout,DDT＆Electric Power Generation 141

Extract 3 Environmental Effects of Acid Rain 145

Extract 4 Environment＆Human Well-Being 149

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 154

Unit Nine Finance 156

Topic Reading 1:Extracts about Currency 156

Extract 1 Money 156

Extract 2 Exchange Rate 159

Topic Reading 2:Securities 160

Extract 3 Stock 160

Extract 4 Bond 163

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 168

Unit Ten Digital Earth 175

Topic Reading:Extracts about the Digital Earth 175

Extract 1 Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century 175

Extract 2 Building up the Digital Earth Together，Sharing Global Data Resources Each Other 181

Extract 3 Geographic Exploration of Digital Earth 184

Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 191

Key to the Exercises 195

Glossary 202

Bibliography 214