Lesson 1 1
Text Walking in Space 1
Reading First Steps on the Moon 8
Lesson 2 12
Text Educational Attitudes 12
Reading Education in the U.S.A 20
Lesson 3 25
Text Air Pollution 25
Reading The Current State of the World Environment 32
Lesson 4 39
Text Petroleum 39
Reading Petroleum 47
Lesson 5 52
Text Karaoke Bends to All Demands 52
Reading Edutainment May Be Education's Bright Future 60
Lesson 6 65
Text Hackers Are Enemy Number One on the Internet 65
Reading Communicating in the New Age 74
Lesson 7 80
Text The Credit Card Economy 80
Reading Bargains 87
Lesson 8 92
Text Management of Sino-foreign Joint Ventures 92
Reading Management of Sino-foreign Joint Ventures 100
Lesson 9 105
Text Albert Einstein—Person of the Century 105
Reading Dell Boy Made Good 112
Lesson 10 118
Text Work,Labor and Play 118
Reading Why People Work 125
Lesson 11 131
Text What Is Multimedia,Anyway 131
Reading Computer Viruses 138
Lesson 12 145
Text China's Links with the World Expand through Giant Cable 145
Reading Telecommunications for the 21st Century 152
Lesson 13 158
Text Climate and the Human Factor 158
Reading S.O.S 167
Lesson 14 172
Text The Categories of Accounting 172
Reading The Field of Accounting 180
Lesson 15 185
Text Going Grocery Shopping:Let Your Fingers Do the Walking 185
Reading The Networked Economy Explodes 192
Lesson 16 198
Text Cancer Vaccines 198
Reading AIDS—The Risk to Heterosexuals 206
Keys to Exercises＆Translation 212
Appendix Ⅰ Vocabulary 267
Appendix Ⅱ Phrases 286