CONTENTS 1
31 Non-auditory Effects of Noise by D.E.BROADBENT 1
32 The Past Life of the Earth by ERROL WHITE 13
33 The Raising of the'Vasa'by ROY SAUNDERS 23
34 Patients and Doctors by KENNETH WALKER 36
35 The Pegasus Book of Inventors by EGON LARSEN 46
36 Exploring the Sea-floor by T.F.GASKELL 53
37 On Telling the Truth by HAROLD NICOLSON 64
38 The Sculptor Speaks by HENRY MOORE 78
39 Galileo Reborn by MICHAEL HOSKIN 89
40 Themes and Variations by ALDOUS HUXLEY 106
41 The Origin of Things by JULIUS E.LIPS 116
42 Journey Through Adolescence by DORIS ODLUM 129
43 Our Developing World by L.DUDLEY STAMP 140
44 The Backward Society by RAYMOND FROST 150
45 The Process of Ageing by ALEX COMFORT 162
46 The Menace of Urban Explosion by BARBARA WARD 177
47 Plato Today by R.H.S.CROSSMAN 192
48 What Every Writer Wants by JOHN CARRE 205
49 Balloon Astronomy by PATRICK MOORE 217
50 British Canals by CHARLES HADFIELD 226
51 Elephants by RICHARD CARRINGTON 236
52 The Earth Beneath Us by H.H.SWINNERTON 250
53 The Story of the French Foreign Legion by EDGAR O'BALLANCE 262
54 Are There Strangers in Space?by ANTHONY MICHAELIS 281
55 Patterns of Culture by RUTH BENEDICT 294
56 The Age of Automation by LEON BAGRIT 311
57 Of Men and Galaxies by FRED HOYLE 321
58 Painting as a Pastime by WINSTON CHURCHLL 332
59 The Great Escape by NIGELBUXTON 344
60 On Moral Coura ge by COMPTON MACKENZIE 362
附录二：攻读硕士学位研究生英语试题答案（1981年—1986年） 377