Unit One 1
Text Life in the Greenhouse 1
Exercises 7
Supplementary Reading 10
Unit Two 14
Text New Hope for Cancer 14
Exercises 19
Supplementary Reading 23
Unit Three 26
Text The Future of the Phone 26
Exercises 31
Supplementary Reading 34
Unit Four 37
Text Power in Your Hand 37
Exercises 41
Supplementary Reading 44
Text Accuracy, Accuracy Accuracy 47
Unit Five 47
Exercises 52
Supplementary Reading 55
Unit Six 58
Text Time Is Running Out 58
Exercises 62
Supplementary Reading 65
Unit Seven 69
Text Invisible Hand 69
Exercises 73
Supplementary Reading 76
Unit Eight 79
Text Nature of Modern Chemistry 79
Exercises 83
Supplementary Reading 86
Unit Nine 90
Text Good News about Memory 90
Exercises 94
Supplementary Reading 97
Text Challenges of the “E-Banking Revolution” 100
Unit Ten 100
Exercises 104
Supplementary Reading 107
Unit Eleven 111
Text Urban Gorillas 111
Exercises 116
Supplementary Reading 119
Text The Brain Revolution and Ethics 122
Unit Twelve 122
Exercises 126
Supplementary Reading 129
Unit Thirteen 132
Text Metal and Alloy Today 132
Exercises 135
Supplementary Reading 138
Unit Fourteen 141
Text Here Come the Super Gadgets 141
Exercises 145
Supplementary Reading 147
Unit Fifteen 150
Text Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory 150
Exercises 153
Supplementary Reading 156
Unit Sixteen 160
Text A Brief History of the Internet 160
Exercises 165
Supplementary Reading 168
Text Petroleum 171
Unit Seventeen 171
Exercises 175
Supplementary Reading 178
Unit Eighteen 181
Text Is Space Finite? 181
Exercises 185
Supplementary Reading 188
Key to the Exercises 191
Translation of the Texts 215
Glossary 242