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社会类 Social Class 1

Passage One State of Fear 2

Passage Two Checking out the Chicks 5

Passage Three The Not-so-great Outdoors 7

Passage Four Floppy Discs 11

Passage Five Something Rotten 13

Passage Six The Decline of the Landline 16

Passage Seven Nothing New under the Sun 19

Passage Eight Left Behind 22

Passage Nine Computing Climate Change 25

Passage Ten Charge！ 28

Passage One The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages 31

Passage Two France’s New Year’s Tradition： Car-Burning 34

Passage Three E-waste Not 38

Passage Four Bunking in with Mom and Dad 41

Passage Five In Japan， Fast Fashion Rules in Slow Times 44

Passage Six Can Wind Power Get up to Speed？ 47

Passage Seven Does the E.U.’s Airline Blacklist Make Flying Safer？ 51

Passage Eight A Lighter Brew： Nonalcoholic Beer 54

Passage Nine Distracted Driving： Should Talking， Texting be Banned？ 57

Passage Ten Why Americans Are Adopting Fewer Kids om China？ 61

Passage One Having Kids Makes You Happy 65

Passage Two Phones without Homes 68

Passage Three On the Job Gaming 72

Passage Four The Bad News about Your Job 75

Passage Five Children of the System 78

Passage Six A Nanny’s Diary 82

Passage Seven The Argument against Paid Family Leave 86

Passage Eight NegotiatingaCredit-Card Crisis 90

Passage Nine Lonely Planet 93

Passage Ten Married， with Lies 97

Passage One Califomia Seeks Thermostat Control 101

Passage Two As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise， Food Stamp Use Nears Record 104

Passage Three Study Gives High Marks to U.S.Interet 108

Passage Four Asian Food Crisis Has Political and Civil Implications 112

Passage Five Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species 116

Passage Six Sweden Turning Sewage into a Gasoline Substitute 120

Passage Seven Frustration in the South as a Gasoline Shortage Drags on 124

Passage Eight Transit Use Hit Five-Decade High in 2008 as Gas Prices Rose 127

Passage Nine Road Deaths Nationwide Fell Sharply in 2008 130

Passage Ten Britain Responds to Criticism of Its Universal Health System 133

文教类 Culture and Education 138

Passage One Career Ahead 138

Passage Two A Poet of Light 141

Passage Three Crossing to Safety 144

Passage Four Work Hard， Be Nice 148

Passage Five Raising Alabama 150

Passage Six Brass in Pocket 153

Passage Seven Those Who Can 156

Passage Eight Kitchen-classroom Conservatives 159

Passage Nine Games Lessons 163

Passage Ten Cheap and Cheerful 166

Passage One Criminalizing Home Schoolers 169

Passage Two Hidden College Costs： Rising Fees 172

Passage Three A Writing Prize for the People， by the People 175

Passage Four No Dropouts Left Behind： New Rules on Grad Rates 179

Passage Five Making Reading， Writing and Recession Work Together 182

Passage Six A Brief History of Posthumous Literature 186

Passage Seven Cash-Strapped State Schools Being Forced to Privatize 189

Passage Eight Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Publie Schools？ 193

Passage Nine India to Foreign Colleges： Set up Campus Here 196

Passage Ten Ann Arbor Kills Its Newspaper-to Save It 200

Passage One How Much Did “Taxi to the Dark Side” Earn at the American Box Office？ 204

Passage Two Lessons from Locke 208

Passage Three Struggling School-Age Boys 211

Passage Four Armchair Survivor 214

Passage Five A New Look for Japan’s Musicians 218

Passage Six Shock Therapy 221

Passage Seven Taking the Longer Road 225

Passage Eight The Sound of One Hand Clicking 228

Passage Nine The Guitar Is the Hero in ‘It Might Get Loud’ 231

Passage Ten Getting Schooled about Money 235

Passage One Applications to Colleges Are Breaking Records 239

Passage Two Online Schooling Grows， Setting Off a Debate 242

Passage Three East and West： Seeing the World through Different Lenses 247

Passage Four Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math 251

Passage Five Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students 255

Passage Six Study Finds Little Benefit in New SAT 258

Passage Seven New Vision for Schools Proposes Broad Role 261

Passage Eight College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S 265

Passage Nine Arts Leaders Urge Role for Culture in Economic Recovery 268

Passage Ten In a Digital Future， Textbooks Are History 273

经济类 Economy 280

Passage One No Countty for Old Men 280

Passage Two Helping Hand？ 282

Passage Three Banks Need More Capital 286

Passage Four Company Woe 289

Passage Five Slim Spring 292

Passage Six Waist Banned 295

Passage Seven The Sun Also Rises 299

Passage Eight Trading Blows 303

Passage Nine Big Is Back 306

Passage Ten When Cheap Is Exclusive 310

Passage One Will Online Sales Brighten a Bleak Holiday Season？ 314

Passage Two Texas Braces for an Oil Bust 317

Passage Three For the Post Office： Snow， Rain and Now Gloom of Recession 320

Passage Four FDIC Reports That Bank Failures Are Rising 323

Passage Five Credit Problems Are Climbing the Income Scale 326

Passage Six Can a Golf Shoe Help GEOX Beat the Recession？ 329

Passage Seven Commodities Conundrum 332

Passage Eight A Drag on the Economic Rebound： Consumer Spending 335

Passage Nine After Polaroid， Keeping Instant Photography Alive 338

Passage Ten Abercrombie＆Fitch： Worst Recession Brand？ 342

Passage One Yahooligans at the Window 346

Passage Two The Wal-Mart Puzzle 350

Passage Three Hold the Hysteria （For Now） 353

Passage Four You Call This a Depression榖 357

Passage Five The Biggest Thing to Fear Is Fear 361

Passage Six Can Anything Save Magazines？ 364

Passage Seven McKinsey’s Cracked Crystal Ball 367

Passage Eight The New Boom-Bust Cycle 371

Passage Nine Cash for Clunkers’ Lasting Impact 374

Passage Ten What’s Good for IBM 378

Passage One Oil Hits＄100 a Barrel for the First Time 382

Passage Two Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets 385

Passage Three Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry 390

Passage Four Nissan Says Electric Cars Will Be Quickly Profitable 395

Passage Five Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation 398

Passage Six Fifty Herbert Hoovers 402

Passage Seven In Asia， Hints of a Distant and Fragile Recove 405

Passage Eight China’s Economy Takes a Sharp Domestic Turn 408

Passage Nine Airbus Warns Output Could Drop as Much as 25 1507560n 2010 and 2011 411

Passage Ten For Asia， Data Shows a Slow Climb Out of Recession 415

科技类Science and Technology 420

Passage One Seeds of Hope 420

Passage Two Oil in Your Coffee 423

Passage Three A Capital Idea 426

Passage Four Smart Bridges 430

Passage Five Running on Air 433

Passage Six Not Forgotten 435

Passage Seven Keeping a Grip 438

Passage Eight A Hard Act to Follow 440

Passage Nine Blood Simple 443

Passage Ten The Next Blue Planet 446

Passage One Finding Energy All around Us 449

Passage Two Mars： Pop.6 452

Passage Three Mapping the Rats in New York City 455

Passage Four Wait a Second： Why 2008 Was a Long Year 459

Passage Five Learning More about Levitation 462

Passage Six What Good Is Sleep？ New Lessons from the Fruit Fly 465

Passage Seven An Organism Survives Antarctica， and Maybe Mars 469

Passage Eight Ida： Humankind’s Earliest Ancestor！ （Not Really） 472

Passage Nine The fMtRI Brain Scan： A Better Lie Detector？ 475

Passage Ten New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees 479

Passage One Living in the Clouds 483

Passage Two Digital Hide and Seek 486

Passage Three My Blackberry a Bomb Sniffer？ 490

Passage Four Technology to Wear 493

Passage Five Apple’s New Weapon 496

Passage Six Life’s Complexities 500

Passage Seven A Truce in the Crop Wars 503

Passage Eight Plugging Into the Future 506

Passage Nine High Tech Pets 510

Passage Ten TV’s Next Dimension 513

Passage One Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas into Gasoline 517

Passage Two New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days 521

Passage Three Home Brew for the Car， Not the Beer Cup 524

Passage Four In a New Climate Model， Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World 527

Passage Five Country, the City Version： Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest 530

Passage Six The Mysterious Cough， Caught on Film 534

Passage Seven Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread 537

Passage Eight On Web and iPhone， a Tool to Aid Careful Shopping 541

Passage Nine Panels of Light， Not Just Points， Fascinate Designers and Industry 545

Passage Ten Pursuing a Battery So Electric Vehicles Can Go the Extra Miles 549

健康类Health 554

Passage One Cancer Killers 554

Passage Two Kiss and Kill 557

Passage Three Resistance Is Useless 560

Passage Four Have You Been Taking Your Medicine？ 563

Passage Five Breathe Easy 566

Passage Six Toothache 569

Passage Seven The Truth Shall Make You Thin 572

Passage Eight Arrest That Plaque 574

Passage Nine On the Pill 577

Passage Ten Don’t Blame Your Genes 579

Passage One Does the Flu Vaccine Really Protect Kids？ 583

Passage TWO Can Vitamin D Protect Against Breast Cancer？ 586

Passage Three Lack of Sleep Linked to Heart Problems 589

Passage Four Why Men Are Better Dieters than Women 592

Passage Five Study： Secondhand Smoke Tied to Dementia 595

Passage Six Eating a Bit Less Salt Can Be a Big Health Boon 598

Passage Seven Why Does Scratching Relieve an Itch？ 602

Passage Eight Many Elderly Falls Due to Inner-Ear Imbalance 605

Passage Nine Study： Web Therapy Can Help Ease Insomnia 608

Passage Ten Benefits Seen in Post-cancer Weight-Lifting 612

Passage One It’s the Season of Temptation 616

Passage Two More Good News about Vitamin D 619

Passage Three The Power of Stations 623

Passage Four Eat Less， Live Longer？ 626

Passage Five The Medicine of Us and Them 630

Passage Six Another Reason to Stay Married 634

Passage Seven Campus Contagion？ 637

Passage Eight Training Faulty Brains to Work Better 641

Passage Nine Are Fat Friends Bad for Each Other？ 644

Passage Ten Organic Food for Thought 648

Passage One The Claim： Identical Twins Have Identical DNA 652

Passage Two Yes， Running Can Make You High 655

Passage Three Life Expectancy Is Declining in Some Pockets of the Country 659

Passage Four Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk 662

Passage Five Panel Sees Role for Smoking in Breast Cancer 665

Passage Six G.O.P. Senators Question Obama’s Health Reforms 668

Passage Seven Discovery May Help Treat Obesity 672

Passage Eight Stealing in Childhood Does Not a Criminal Make 675

Passage Nine Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care 679

Passage Ten Genes Tied to Gap in Treatment of Hepatitis C 683