TPO 1 1
Passage 1 Groundwater 1
Passage 2 The Origins of Theater 3
Passage 3 Timberline Vegetation on Mountains 6
TPO 2 9
Passage 1 The Origins of Cetaceans 9
Passage 2 The Desert Formation 11
Passage 3 Early Cinema 13
TPO 3 16
Passage 1 Architecture 16
Passage 2 Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer 18
Passage 3 The Long-term Stability of Ecosystem 21
TPO 4 24
Passage 1 Deer Populations of the Puget Sound 24
Passage 2 Cave Art in Europe 26
Passage 3 Petroleum Resources 28
TPO 5 31
Passage 1 Minerals and Plants 31
Passage 2 The Origin of the Pacific Island People 33
Passage 3 The Cambrian Explosion 35
TPO 6 37
Passage 1 Powering the Industrial Revolution 37
Passage 2 William Smith 39
Passage 3 Infantile Amnesia 40
TPO 7 43
Passage 1 The Geologic History of Mediterranean 43
Passage 2 Ancient Rome and Greece 45
Passage 3 Agriculture,Iron,the Bantu People 47
TPO 8 49
Passage 1 The Rise of Teotihuacán 49
Passage 2 Extinction of the Dinosaurs 51
Passage 3 Running Water on Mars 53
TPO 9 55
Passage 1 Colonizing the Americas via the Northwest Coast 55
Passage 2 Reflection in Teaching 56
Passage 3 The Arrival of Plant Life in Hawaii 58
TPO 10 61
Passage 1 Chinese Pottery 61
Passage 2 Variations in the Climate 63
Passage 3 Seventeenth-century European Economic Growth 65
TPO 11 68
Passage 1 Ancient Egyptian Sculpture 68
Passage 2 Orientation and Navigation 70
Passage 3 Begging by Nestlings 72
TPO 12 74
Passage 1 Which Hand Did They Use? 74
Passage 2 Transition to Sound in Film 76
Passage 3 Water in the Desert 78
TPO 13 80
Passage 1 Types of Social Groups 80
Passage 2 Biological Clocks 82
Passage 3 Methods of Studying Infant Perception 84
TPO 14 86
Passage 1 Children and Advertising 86
Passage 2 Maya Water Problems 88
Passage 3 Pastoralism in Ancient Inner Eurasia 89
TPO 15 92
Passage 1 A Warm-blooded Turtle 92
Passage 2 Mass Extinctions 93
Passage 3 Glacier Formation 95
TPO 16 98
Passage 1 Trade and the Ancient Middle East 98
Passage 2 Development of the Periodic Table 100
Passage 3 Planets in Our Solar System 101
TPO 17 104
Passage 1 Europe's Early Sea Trade with Asia 104
Passage 2 Animal Signals in the Rain Forest 106
Passage 3 Symbiotic Relationships 107
TPO 18 110
Passage 1 Industrialization in the Netherlands and Scandinavia 110
Passage 2 The Mystery of Yawning 112
Passage 3 Lightning 113
TPO 19 115
Passage 1 The Roman Army's Impact on Britain 115
Passage 2 Succession,Climax,and Ecosystems 117
Passage 3 Discovering the Ice Ages 120
TPO 20 122
Passage 1 Westward Migration 122
Passage 2 Early Settlements in the Southwest Asia 124
Passage 3 Fossil Preservation 126
附录1 全书词汇总表 129
附录2 140道经典词汇题 163