Passage1 A Load of Old Rubbish 1
Passage2 Botany 5
Passage3 The Success Way of Sohu 9
Passage7 Number 10
Passage4 Earth—A Gigantic Magnet 13
Passage5 Washing-up Liquids 17
Passage6 Settlement and Development of Australia 20
Passage8 Emotional Pain 27
Passage9 Asian Financial Crisis 31
Passage10 Money to Burn 34
Passage11 Telephone Is a Pest 38
Passage12 Blurred Childhood 42
Passage13 The Siberian Mammoth 45
Passage14 Can Chimps Talk? 49
Passage15 Age 53
Passage16 Body Type and Personality 57
Passage17 Shopping with Feeling 60
Passage18 The Evolution of Plastics 63
Passage19 Lateral Thinking 66
Passage20 Dime Novels 69
Passage21 Is Mathematics an Art? 73
Passage22 Grieve over Diana s Death 77
Passage23 Go Ahead. Take a Nap. 81
Passage24 Green Revolution 84
Passage25 Use of the Telephone 88
Passage26 Is It Love or Infatuation? 92
Passage27 Learn to Say No 96
Passage28 Children s Ability in Mathematics 100
Passage29 Is Rent Control Good or Bad? 104
Passage30 Men with Suicidal Tendencies 107
Passage31 Blacks and Whites 111
Passage32 Isadora Duncan 114
Passage33 Powder Dispersion 118
Passage34 Buy One. Get One Free? 122
Passage35 Goggle-eyed 125
Passage36 Byron Katie and Her Work 128
Passage37 Romanticism 132
Passage38 The Issuance of Stocks 135
Passage39 The Story of Jeans 138
Passage40 The Process of Aging 142
Passage41 Clones: Will There Be“Carbon Copy”People? 146
Passage42 Container Gardening 150
Passage43 The Role of Sport Games 154
Passage44 Does Cold Water Freeze Faster than Hot Water? 158
Passage45 Internet Revolution 161
Passage46 Why Are They Unhappy? 165
Passage47 Salt Removal 169
Passage48 Theories of the Universe 172
Passage49 A Really Free Man 176
Passage50 Dinosaurs 180
Passage51 Aspirin: Exciting New Benefits 185
Passage52 Mental Therapy 189
Passage53 Influence of Internet on Medicine 193
Passage54 Remarks by President Clinton 197
Passage55 What s Wrong with the Attractiveness? 202
Passage56 The World s Largest Corporations 206
Passage57 A Terrible Disease—Mad-cow Disease 210
Passage58 Surfing on the Net 215
Passage59 Layoff Announcements After the New Economy s Cooling 220
Passage60 The Birth of Reader s Digest 224
Passage61 Progress 228
Passage62 A Letter from Birmingham Jail 232
Passage63 Court System in the United States 237
Passage64 The Watchdog Has Fangs 240
Passage65 How to Starve a Tumor? 244
Passage66 Keep Your Cyberprivacy 249
Passage67 Chechenya in War 253
Passage68 Go to America to Study 257
Passage69 A New Way to Measure Glucose 261
Passage70 Heart Disease Criteria Vary 266
Passage71 Landslides 271
Passage72 A Case on the First Amendment 274
Passage73 The Red-feather Currency System 277
Passage74 Korea Beefs up Disinfection Against Foot-and -mouth 280
Passage75 Learn to Love and Live with No Regrets 284
Passage76 A New Approach to Fight the AIDS Virus 288
Passage77 Genetically Modified Foods 292
Passage78 The Sage—Confucius 297
Passage79 Chromosome 301
Passage80 Time for Spring Cleansing 306