Text A An Impression of Zhu Diwen—A Nobel Physics Prize Winner of Chinese Descent 1
Unit1 1
Text B The Nobel Prize,a Brief Introduction 8
Unit3 15
Text A Japan:the Coolest of the Cool 15
Text B Unique Traditions from U.K. 22
Unit3 29
Text A Seven Proven Career Boosters 29
Text B You Are Fired! 38
Unit4 45
Text A French Doctors Defend Ethics of First Face Transplant 45
Text B Make Me Pretty Again 53
Text A Water Pollution and Society 60
Unit5 60
Text B Old Water Made New 68
Unit6 77
Text A Hospice Care:When Comfort,Not Cure,Is the Focus 77
Text B Making Your Dying Loved One More Comfortable 84
Unit7 91
Text A Internet 91
Text B The Internet in Crisis:Communication in the Case of September 11th 97
Unit8 104
Text A Vision Technology:Looking Outward 104
Text B The Future of Humankind 112
Text A Genetically Modified Foods—Feed the World? 121
Unit9 121
Text B Will GE Technologies Solve World Hunger? 129
Unit10 137
Text A Missed the Energy Crisis?We Hardly Knew Yet. 137
Text B Tips Tricks of Saving Energy 144
Unit11 151
Text A Music Hath Charms to Raise Kids IQs 151
Text B Guitars and Rockets:Surprising Similarity Between 158
Unit12 166
Text A Are We Really Shocked? 166
Text B Performance Drugs Outrun the Olympics 172
Text A Computer:the General Characteristics of the Four Types 178
Unit13 178
Text B The Needs Analysis of a Laptop 185
Unit14 192
Text A Computer Vision—An Insight 192
Text B The Battle for High-speed Wireless Supremacy 200
Unit15 208
Text A World Digital Library Planned 208
Text B Shanghai Library 215
Unit16 221
Text A Are Your Beauty Products Killing You? 221
Text B Men and Cosmetic Surgery 227
Keys to Exercises 236
Glossary 251