前言 3
Unit One National Economical Administration and Household economy 7
Unit Two The Evolution of Intelligence among the Carnivores and the Herbivores 11
Unit Three Hot-Spot Activity 15
Unit Four Edward and the Duchess of Windsor 19
Unit Five Children's Language Acquisition 23
Unit Six Hydrothemal Vents 27
Unit Seven Food Advertisements 31
Unit Eight San Francisco Needs More Reforms 35
Unit Nine The language Varies as Time Goes on 39
Unit Ten Low-cost Materials with High Efficiencies 43
Notes from unit 1 to 10 47
Unit Eleven Shrinking Water Supply Poses Threat to Peace 51
Unit Twelve The Rescue of a Midget Submarine 55
Unit Thirteen Before the Web-Dots and Dashes 59
Unit Fourteen A View of the Supreme Being 63
Unit Fifteen Economic Efficiency in Hospital 67
Unit Sixteen Intoxication and Vehicle Accidents 71
Unit Seventeen English Royal College of Music 76
Unit Eighteen Toward a Definition of Science Fiction 80
Unit Nineteen Britain and World War Ⅱ 84
Unit Twenty The Tibeten Upland 88
Notes from unit 11 to 20 92
Unit Twenty-one Empirical Equations 96
Unit Twenty-two The Pelican 100
Unit Twenty-three Is Harvard Worth It? 104
Unit Twenty-four Communication territoriality 108
Unit Twenty-five The Verbal Impact upon the Witnesses 112
Unit Twenty-six The Future Marketplace on the Internet 116
Unit Twenty-seven Climate and Crime 120
Unit Twenty-eight Disney World 124
Unit Twenty-nine Affirmative Action 128
Unit Thirty Grandparents and Grandchildren:The Special Link 132
Notes from unit 21 to 30 136
Unit Thirty-one Etiquette in Europe 140
Unit Thirty-two What the Internet Cannot Do? 144
Unit Thirty-three How to Deal with Worries 148
Unit Thirty-four A World of Their Own 152
Unit Thirty-five Socrates—A Poor but Great Figure 156
Unit Thirty-six Divorce 160
Unit Thirty-seven Terror in Moscow 164
Unit Thirty-eight Let European solve it 169
Unit Thirty-nine Hybrid Cars 174
Unit Forty Women Warriors 179
Notes from unit 31 to 40 183
Unit Forty-one Research of the Earth 187
Unit Forty-two College Responsibilities 191
Unit Forty-three Induction and Deduction 195
Unit Forty-four A Workaholic Economy 199
Unit Forty-five Decoding the Human Body(1) 203
Unit Forty-six Decoding the Human Body(2) 207
Unit Forty-seven The Great Barrier Reef 212
Unit Forty-eight Will We Meet E.T.? 216
Unit Forty-nine Anything But Beef(1) 221
Unit Fifty Anything But Beef(2) 226
Notes from unit 41 to 50 231
参考译文 236
Glossary from unit 1 to unit 50 280
Keys to Exercises 292