社会类 2
Passage One Frustration Grows at Carousel As More Baggage Goes Astray 2
Passage Two Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future 9
Passage Three Women Keeping up Pressure for a Better Travel Experience 16
Passage Four Parsing the Truths about Visas for Tech Workers 21
Passage Five U.S.Database Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers 27
Passage Six Off the Shelf;Opening the On-Ramp for Women 33
Passage Seven Link Is Seen Between British Labs and Livestock Virus 39
Passage Eight "Kid Nation"Parents Gave Show Free Rein 44
Passage Nine Peeking into Cubicles to Find a Wealth of Tech Workers 49
Passage Ten Abdicate and Capitulate 54
文教类 60
Passage One For France,Video Games Are as Artful as Cinema 60
Passage Two For Some Countries,America's Popular Culture Is Resistible 66
Passage Three Brazilian Government Invests in Culture of Hip-Hop 71
Passage Four A Classroom of Monkey Bars and Slides 77
Passage Five Teacher Dismissed 84
Passage Six TV Dramas Rip the Cover off Magazines 89
Passage Seven Who's a Nerd,Anyway? 95
Passage Eight A Familiar Set Helps to Create a New Cultural Market 100
Passage Nine Survey Reveals Student Attitudes,Parental Goals and Teacher Mistrust 106
Passage Ten American Culture's French Connection 111
经济类 118
Passage One U.S.Automakers Post Modest Sales Rise in January 118
Passage Two Economists Are Watchful as Tokyo Ends Loose-Money Policy 123
Passage Three Enter the Neuro-Economists:Why Do Investors Do What They Do? 129
Passage Four Income Soars on Wall St.,Widening Gap 135
Passage Five Silicon Valley Rebounds,Led by Green Technology 140
Passage Six Study Says Computers Give Big Boosts to Productivity 145
Passage Seven Worth a Lot,but Are They Worth It? 150
Passage Eight Google Buys a Manager of E-mail 155
Passage Nine Building a Brand Name,Via Business Cards 161
Passage Ten Can a Plucky U.S.Economy Surmount $80 Oil? 166
科技类 174
Passage One Correction Appended 174
Passage Two Yahoo Introduces a Site on Consumer Technology 179
Passage Three Thin-Film Solution Is Closer for the Lithium-Ion Battery 184
Passage Four Study Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth's Orbit and Tilt 189
Passage Five Alloy Holds Out Promise of Speedier Memory Chip 194
Passage Six Wireless Technology to Bind an African Village 200
Passage Seven Scientists Urge a Search for Life Not as We Know It 206
Passage Eight Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely 211
Passage Nine Energetic Cosmic Rays May Start from Black Holes 216
Passage Ten No Drivers,But a Lot of Drive 221
健康类 228
Passage One Inactivity in Men Is Linked to Broken Bones 228
Passage Two In Science-Based Medicine,Where Does Luck Fit in? 233
Passage Three In Medicine,Acceptable Risk Is in the Eye of the Beholder 238
Passage Four When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is 243
Passage Five Parents Warned Cough Medicines Imperil Infants 249
Passage Six Teaching Doctors to Teach Patients about Lifestyle 255
Passage Seven New Schizophrenia Medicine Shows Promise in Trials 261
Passage Eight Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records 267
Passage Nine Mind over Matter,with a Machine's Help 273
Passage Ten Young Athletes Try New Coach:The Psychologist 279