Unit 1 Text—The Future of the Phone 1
Exercises 5
Supplementary Reading:Video Games Get Trashed 8
Unit 2 Text—Power in Your Hand 11
Exercises 15
Supplementary Reading:Big Brother is You,Watching 18
Unit 3 Text—Time is Running Out 20
Exercises 24
Supplementary Reading:Time to Grow Up 27
Unit 4 Text—Invisible Hand 30
Exercises 33
Supplementary Reading:The History of Paper Money 36
Unit 5 Text—Challenges of the"E-banking Revolution" 38
Exercises 42
Supplementary Reading:The Organizational Challenge of E-commerce 45
Unit 6 Text—Urban Gorillas 48
Exercises 52
Supplementary Reading:Beyond Bones 55
Unit 7 Text—Metal and Alloy Today 58
Exercises 61
Supplementary Reading:Will Anybody Ever Use Metals and Alloys Again? 64
Unit 8 Text—A Brief History of the Internet 66
Exercises 70
Supplementary Reading:Cyberspace 73
Unit 9 Text—Petroleum 76
Exercises 80
Supplementary Reading:Petroleum Reserves,Known and Recoverable 83
Unit 10 Text—Life in the Greenhouse 85
Exercises 90
Supplementary Reading:Why All the Crazy Weather? 93
Unit 11 Text—New Hope for Cancer 96
Exercises 101
Supplementary Reading:Rethinking Breast Cancer 104
Unit 12 Text—Accuracy,Accuracy ＆ Accuracy 107
Exercises 111
Supplementary Reading:Heavenly Music 114
Unit 13 Text—Nature of Modern Chemistry 116
Exercises 119
Supplementary Reading:Making Choice—Health vs.Beauty 122
Unit 14 Text—Good News About Memory 125
Exercises 128
Supplementary Reading:Improving Your Memory:Some Useful Steps 131
Unit 15 Text—The Brain Revolution and Ethics 134
Exercises 137
Supplementary Reading:The Future of Mind Control 140
Unit 16 Text—Here Come the Super Gadgets 143
Exercises 146
Supplementary Reading:Check out the Cars of 2010 149
Unit 17 Text—Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory 151
Exercises 154
Supplementary Reading:Areas of Fuzzy Logic Applications in Europe 157
Unit 18 Text—Is Space Finite? 160
Exercises 164
Supplementary Reading:The Age of the Universe 166
Keys to the Exercises 169
Unit One 169
Unit Two 170
Unit Three 172
Unit Four 173
Unit Five 174
Unit Six 175
Unit Seven 177
Unit Eight 178
Unit Nine 179
Unit Ten 181
Unit Eleven 182
Unit Twelve 183
Unit Thirteen 185
Unit Fourteen 186
Unit Fifteen 187
Unit Sixteen 189
Unit Seventeen 190
Unit Eighteen 191
Translation of the Texts 193
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Glossary 217