Unit One 1
Test A Age and Creativity 1
Test B Jack-of-age-trades and Renaissance Man 4
Test C A Teen-age Science Contest 5
Unit Two 7
Test A Ia Your Child in Good Health? 7
Test B Dyslexia 9
Test C Lead Level in the Blood 10
Test A Ekectronic Pictures for Tesching Medicine 12
Unir Three 12
Test B Growth Factors 14
Test C A New Device for Transplanting Organs 16
Uint Four 18
Test A Shyness 18
Test B How to Train the Blind 20
Test C Keeping Pets 21
Unit Five 23
Test A A Report on the World's Wild Aress 23
Test B The Study of Oceans 25
Test C National Hurricane Center 27
Unit Six 28
Test A Visit to Planer Mars 28
Test B Environmntal Problems 30
Test C The Destruction of Ozone 31
Unit Seven 34
Test A Temperatures in 1990 34
Test B How the Gulf War Affects the Environment 36
Test C Plastic Wastes 37
Test A Saving Wild Animals with Advanced Techniques 40
Unit Eight 40
Test B The Frogs and Toads Mystery 42
Test C The Fate of Some Rare Animals 44
Unit Nine 46
Test A The Mobile Staellite Communication System 46
Test B A Rader System for Observing Space Junk 48
Test C Teleoperators 50
Test B A Good Why to Store Cement 50
Unit Ten 52
Test A Aquarus -An Underwater Reseach Center 52
Test B The Jaipur Foot 54
Test C The First Patent Animal 55
Test A Heat Recovery Systems 58
Unit Eleven 58
Test C Computer Programs for Population Planning 61
Unit Twelve 64
Test A Solar-powered Water Pumps 64
Test B Wind-resistand Blockhouses 66
Unit Thirteem 70
Test A No-till Faiming 70
Test B A New way to Proauce Gotion Fibers 72
Test C Alternative Agriculture System 72
Test A Prodcing Electricity from Cattle Wastes 75
Test B How to Build aSimple Incubator 77
Test C How to Increace the Production of Male Catfish 79
Unit Fifteen 81
Test A The Effects of Restricled Eating 81
Test B Why Left-handed people Are More Vulnerable to Accidents 83
Test C Breat-fedd Your Baby 84
Unit Sisteen 86
Test A The New Electric Car 86
Test B Fractogenometry 88
Test C Disputing the Theory of ZFY Gene 90
Unit Seventeen 92
Test A Where X-ray Radiation in the Sky Comes from 92
Test B The Study of Tree Rings 94
Test C TheVillage Telephone System 97
Test C Watching Migratong Birds with Wearther Radar 100
Unit Nineteen 103
Test A Urban Archaeobogy 103
Test B A Threat to Ancient Treasures 105
Test C The Oldest Floe\wer Ever Found 106
Unit Twenty 108
Test A Compact Disks 108
Test B Compton's Multimedia Encyclopacdia 110
Test C What New Computers Can Show You 112
AppendixⅠ:Key to Exercises (Units 1-20) 114
Appendix Ⅱ:Chinese Translstion of Tests A(Units1-20) 117
Unit Fourteen 785