Unit One Social Security 1
Topic Reading:Extracts about Social Security 1
Extract 1 Social Security 1
Extract 2 Child Benefit 4
Extract 3 The Social Security Act 7
Extract 4 How the Social Fund Can Help You 10
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 16
Extract 1 Strangers in Our Homes:TV and Our Children s Minds 21
Topic Reading:Extracts from TV Violence and Children 21
Unit Two Television and Children 21
Extract 2 Teaching Boys to Kill 25
Extract 3 Pulling the Plug on Television s Sex and Violence 27
Extract 4 Monkey See，Monkey Do Debate Targets Sex and Violence 29
Extract 5 The V-Chip Controversy 31
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 38
Unit Three Banking 45
Topic Reading:Banking Extracts 45
Extract 1 Banks and Banking 45
Extract 2 Computerized Banking 49
Extract 3 The World Bank 51
Extract 4 The Federal Reserve System 54
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 57
Unit Four Genetic Engineering 64
Topic Reading:Genetic Engineering 64
Extract 1 Introduction 64
Extract 2 Patenting Recombinant DNA Products 67
Extract 3 Clone 68
Extract 4 Why Clone? 70
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 78
Unit Five Computer and Internet 82
Topic Reading:Computer Networking 82
Extract 1 Internet 82
Extract 2 AOL Warns Members to Keep Passwords Under Wraps 85
Extract 3 Outlook Email Security Update Now Available 86
Extract 4 IBM Aims to Put Computers on the Wrist 90
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 95
Extract 1 Free Trade 101
Unit Six Trade 101
Topic Reading 1:Extracts about Trade and Trade Organizations 101
Extract 2 Trade Organization 105
Topic Reading 2:The Future of International Trade in Services 109
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 115
Unit Seven Space Exploration 120
Topic Reading:Extracts from Space Exploration 120
Extract 1 ECLS and Human Space Flight 120
Extract 2 Looking for Earth-Like Planet 122
Extract 3 ULYSSES-The Solar Polar Mission 125
Extract 4 Galileo Mission 128
Extract 5 Four-Wheeling on the Moon 130
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 134
Unit Eight Environment 139
Topic Reading:Extracts about Environment 139
Extract 1 Environment 139
Extract 2 Radioactive Fallout,DDT＆Electric Power Generation 141
Extract 3 Environmental Effects of Acid Rain 145
Extract 4 Environment＆Human Well-Being 149
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 154
Unit Nine Finance 156
Topic Reading 1:Extracts about Currency 156
Extract 1 Money 156
Extract 2 Exchange Rate 159
Topic Reading 2:Securities 160
Extract 3 Stock 160
Extract 4 Bond 163
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 168
Unit Ten Digital Earth 175
Topic Reading:Extracts about the Digital Earth 175
Extract 1 Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century 175
Extract 2 Building up the Digital Earth Together，Sharing Global Data Resources Each Other 181
Extract 3 Geographic Exploration of Digital Earth 184
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion 191
Key to the Exercises 195
Glossary 202
Bibliography 214