1. Why Do Monkey Make Faces？(猴子为什么做鬼脸？) 1
2. (1)Your Backbone (你的脊椎骨) 3
(2) Dos and Don ts for Back Care (保护腰背部注意事项) 4
3. Food Preservation (食物的保存) 8
4. Life Can t Get Started on Mars (火星不能孕育生命) 12
5. Detecting the Invisible (检测痕量物) 15
6. 类推法：科技英语新词的构成(一) 19
7. Silk (丝绸) 20
8. Wegener and the Theory of Continental Drift (韦格纳和大陆漂移说) 24
9. Fundamentals of Fusion (聚变的基本原理) 30
10. Eidetic Images (遗觉映象) 34
11. Tapping Subterranean Hot Springs (开发地下温泉) 38
12. Teasers from the Mathemagician (数学魔术师的智力测验题) 41
13. Answers to “Teasers from the Mathemagician”(智力测验题答案) 46
14. Space and Man (Part Three) (太空与人第三部分) 49
15. Roots: tcn-,tin-,tent-,tain-(词根) 53
16. Test Yourself After the Reading (读后测验) 57
17. Why Muscles Tingle (肌肉为什么感到刺痛？) 64
18. In Brief (简讯) 65
19. Key to the Test (参考答案) 70