PASSAGE 1 Your Job May Be Next! 1
PASSAGE 2 Hitch-hikers 7
PASSAGE 3 Coping with Crisis 13
PASSAGE 4 Get Ready for a Digitalized Future 19
PASSAGE 5 Leave to Enter 25
PASSAGE 6 The Ozone 30
PASSAGE 7 Back to Nature 36
PASSAGE 8 First Lady of the Seeing Eye 40
PASSAGE 9 Why People Work 46
PASSAGE 10 The Heart 53
PASSAGE 11 Counterfeiters Cash in on Reject Chips 59
PASSAGE 12 Rice Harvesting with Uncle Lansana 65
PASSAGE 13 Socrates 71
PASSAGE 14 Salt 77
PASSAGE 15 Pioneers in Space 83
PASSAGE 16 Aging in the Western Tradition:Cultural Origins of the Modern Life Course 89
PASSAGE 17 Planned Cities 96
PASSAGE 18 Louis Armstrong—a Jazz Immortal 102
PASSAGE 19 Tokyo Goes Underground 108
PASSAGE 20 The Disney World 113
PASSAGE 21 The Midnight Visitor 120
PASSAGE 22 The Plant Wizard 126
PASSAGE 23 Roof Work 132
PASSAGE 24 Benjamin Franklin 138
PASSAGE 25 Ants Are Smarter than We Think 145
PASSAGE 26 Taming the Elephant 151
PASSAGE 27 Pockety Women Unite? 157
PASSAGE 28 Chinese Americans 162
PASSAGE 29 Some Benefits of Large Families in India 169
PASSAGE 30 Man and Insects 175
PASSAGE 31 Two Major Political Parties in America 181
PASSAGE 32 Discovery by Accident 187
PASSAGE 33 When Marriage Is a Crime 193
PASSAGE 34 Characteristic Features of English 200
PASSAGE 35 Imports and Exports 206
PASSAGE 36 International Transfer of Money 213
PASSAGE 37 The Haunted Spacesuit 220
PASSAGE 38 A Killer Is Born 228
PASSAGE 39 Clone Technology 237
PASSAGE 40 Microbes，Infection and Disease 242
APPENDIX Keys，Notes and Vocabulary 248