上篇 1
Part One People and Land 1
1.Kennedy 1
2.Ogden Nash—A Humorous Poet 4
3.The First Recorded Woman In Marine Corps 7
4.A Canadian Statesman 11
5.The King of Steel 14
6.An American Poet 17
7.Hong Kong 20
8.Israel 24
9.The U.S.A.—A Land of Immigrants 28
10.Athens Is Dying 32
Part Two Social Science 36
1.Kennedy Won the Election 36
2.Rapid-eye-movement Sleep and Slow-wave Sleep 40
3.Try To Reintegrate Prisoners Into Society 43
4.Standard Language and Colloquial Language 48
5.Great Changes In Women’s Life 53
6.Where is the“Mind” 58
7.The Dress Is A kind of“Sign Language” 62
8.How Do We Form Our Facial Feature 70
9.What Is Important In the Sleep 75
10.Who Are Narcoleptics 79
11.Better Life Unsaid 83
12.The United States Court System 92
Part Three Science and Technology 98
1.Black Bear 98
2.Bioluminescence 105
3.Hydrogen 111
4.Snow Blindness 118
5.Insects—Unrivalled Masters In the Art of Survival 120
6.Conserve Water 122
7.Health Food 124
8.Preserve Food By Dehydration 126
9.Obtain Energy From the Ocean 129
10.Volcanic Action Has Greatly Changed the Earth 132
11.The World Was Startled By Successfully Cloning An Adult Sheep 135
12.Would There Be A Y2k Catastrophe 138
Part Four Culture 141
1.Pottery—An Ancient Art 141
2.Independence Day 144
3.Opera 146
4.Jazz 148
5.Eugene O’Neill—A Famous Playwright 151
6.The Western Fiction 153
7.Stamp-collecting 156
8.How Do people Wear 158
9.Square Dancing 160
10.What Does An Artist Want to Teach Us 163
Part Five Business 165
1.Life Insurance 165
2.Banks 167
3.Postwar Boom 169
4.Three Basic Ways In Which Individual Units Interact With One Another 171
5.Continuum 174
6.Telecommuting 177
7.What Did Henry Ford Do For Innovation 180
8.Cross Cultural Understanding Plays An Important Role In Trade Negotiation 183
9.When Will Prices Be Held Down 186
10.Economic Reformation 189
1.President Lyndon B.Johnson 191
Part One People and Land 191
下篇 191
2.Martin Luther King Jr. 195
3.F.D.R. 199
4.Chinese-American Writer—Amy Tan 204
5.Talk show Host—Oprah Winfrey 208
6.Sigmund Freud 212
7.Glenn Seaborg 216
8.Norway’s Equally Good Life 221
9.Hong Kong Versus Singapore 226
10.London Comes Back to Life 229
Part Two Social Science 234
1.Private Enterprise In the American Prison 234
2.Fingerprints 237
3.The Impact of Baby Boom on Education 241
4.The Magic of Touch 245
5.Multiple-choice Test 249
6.What Affects Interviewers 252
7.Why Women Are Less Likely Than Men to Commit Suicide 255
8.Cyber-romance—Fantasy And Fact 260
9.The Pay Gap for Women:It’s A Family Issue 264
10.Cooling It On Coolness 268
Part Three Science And Technology 272
1.The Birds of America 272
2.E.T. 275
3.Global Warming 279
4.Disasters Studies 282
5.The Lunar Eclipse On Thursday 285
6.The Application Of Laser Light 288
7.Nuclear Waste Disposal—Scientists Have An Answer 290
8.Fiberscopes 294
9.Nothing About 21st Century Offspring Will Be Infantile 297
10.Memories Abound In“Elephant Kingdom” 301
11.Search For New Organs Leads to the Barnyard 306
12.The Cloning Controversy 310
13.Hormones 314
14.The Origins of the Virus That Cause AIDS 318
15.Intelligent Highways 321
Part Four Culture 325
1.The Ancient Greek Civilization 325
2.Mickey Mouse—Disney’s Successful Cartoon Creation 328
3.Photography—A Legitimate Art Form 331
4.How To Appreciate“The Pearl” 334
5.Collecting 337
6.Hitchcock s Way of Working 340
7.Folk Culture VS.Popular Culture 343
8.Chekhov’s Opinion On Acting 346
9.Music Video and Madonna 349
10.Why People Take Vacations 355
11.Super-Struggle 361
Part Five Business 367
1.Resilience—Hong Kong’s Rice Bowl 367
2.How Can Large Companies Reach the Savings of the Public 371
3.The Great Depression 374
4.“My Adidas !” 378
5.Recognizing the Emerging“Third Way” 384
6.The World Trade Organization 389
7.Americans Revel In Wage Boom 392
8.Inflation And Economic Growth 397
9.The Asian Financial Crisis 401
10.Reengineering 404
Keys 408