Unit1 1
Text A An Impression of Zhu Diwen-A Nobel Physics Prize Winner of Chinese Descent 1
Text B The Nobel Prize:A Brief Introduction 7
Supplementary Reading Over to You,China 12
Tips 英文报刊阅读（一） 16
Unit 2 17
Text A World Digital Library Planned 17
Text B Shanghai Library 23
Supplementary Reading The German Problem 28
Tips 英文报刊阅读（二） 33
Unit 3 35
Text A Seven Proven Career Boosters 35
Text B You Are Fired! 42
Supplementary Reading Whose Lost Decade? 47
Tips 英文报刊阅读（三） 51
Unit 4 53
Text A Hungry for Your Love 53
Text B A Kiss for Kate 59
Supplementary Reading Computer Network 64
Tips 英文报刊阅读（四） 68
Unit 5 70
Text A Hospice Care:When Comfort,Not Cure,Is the Focus 70
Text B Making Your Dying Loved One More Comfortable 77
Supplementary Reading Fluid Mechanics in Engineering 82
Tips 英文报刊阅读（五） 85
Unit 6 87
Text A Missed the Energy Crisis?We Hardly Knew Yet 87
Text B Tips＆Tricks of Saving Energy 93
Supplementary Reading Cloud Computing 98
Tips 英文报刊阅读（六） 104
Unit 7 106
Text A Music Hath Charms to Raise Kids'IQs 106
Text B Guitars and Rockets:Surprising Similarity Between 112
Supplementary Reading Virtual Manufacturing 118
Tips 英文报刊阅读（七） 122
Unit 8 125
Text A Are We Really Shocked? 125
Text B Performance Drugs Outrun the Olympics 130
Supplementary Reading Operating System(OS) 134
Tips 英文报刊阅读（八） 138
Unit 9 141
Text A Computer:The General Characteristics of the Four Types 141
Text B The Needs Analysis of a Laptop 148
Supplementary Reading Stainless Steel 154
Tips 英文报刊阅读（九） 159
Unit 10 161
Text A A Simple Truth about Happiness 161
Text B Money and Happiness 166
Supplementary Reading Shaper,Planer,Milling and Grinding Machines 171
Tips 英文报刊阅读（十） 174
Unit 11 176
Text A Japan:The Coolest of the Cool 176
Text B Unique Traditions from U.K. 182
Supplementary Reading E-Commerce(Electronic Commerce) 187
Unit 12 191
Text A Are Your Beauty Products Killing You? 191
Text B Men and Cosmetic Surgery 197
Supplementary Reading Numerical Control 202
Tips 英文论文摘要范例 207
Key to Exercises 211
Glossary 223