Unit 1 1
Text A Bill Gates' Speech to Tsinghua University(12December,1997) 1
Text B US Plans Large Funding Boost to Support Nanotechnology Boom 7
STYLISTICS Features of EST in Style and Structure(1) 10
Unit 2 15
Text A Information Management:Definitions and Some Aspects of It 15
Text B CGS-Unit System 26
Unit 3 31
Text A Genetic Engineering 31
Text B Introduction to the Human Genome Project 35
STYLISTICS Features of EST in Style and Structure(2) 39
Unit 4 43
Text A The Development of Mobile Communications in Cellular Phones 43
Text B Practical Electric Units and the Giolgi Proposal 51
Unit 5 57
Text A How IC Products Are Made? 57
Text B The Metric Convention 66
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST:Modal Verbs ＆ Post-modifiers 70
Practice Exercise Ⅰ 75
Text A Major Research Areas in Physics Today 87
Unit 6 87
Text B The Significance of Measurement and Its Physically Developing 94
Unit 7 99
Text A Computer Crime—Congress vs.Computer Crime 99
Text B The International Bureau of Weights and Measures 108
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST:Voice ＆ Mood 111
Unit 8 121
Text A The Top 10 Innovative Products for 2006 121
Text B The Bioinformatics Gold Rush 134
Text A GPS 143
Unit 9 143
Text B The Greatest Extinction Gets Greater 149
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST:Tense 158
Unit 10 163
Text A The Lamb That Roared 163
Text B Dick Whitcomb 175
Practice Exercise Ⅱ 183
Key to Exercises 195
Glossary 209