目 录
Unit 1 Health 1
Text A A Serious Problem for Child Athlete 2
Text B Nicotine 8
Text C Main Energies for the Body 12
Unit 2 Biology 21
Text A Climate Change will Hit Genetic Diversity 22
Text B Gene-therapy Enzymes Make Unpredicted Errors 29
Text C Could Stem Cells Recuse an Endangered Species? 33
Unit 3 Building Academic Vocabulary 40
Unit 4 Informantion Science 55
Text A Siri, Why Aren’t You Smarter? 56
Text B Google Closes In on DoubleClick Deal 62
Text C Selling Expertise on the Internet for Extra Cash 68
Unit 5 Space 76
Text A Shuttle’s End Spells Change at NASA 77
Text B Commercial Space Flight is a Game-changer 83
Text C Let’s Mine Asteroids——for Science and Profit 88
Unit 6 Reading Academic Papers 95
Unit 7 Psychology 109
Text A Opting Out of Overoptimism 110
Text B Using the Mind to Fight Diseases 117
Text C Dreams 122
Unit 8 New-Tech 129
Text A Bloomberg Terminal 130
Text B IMAX 137
Text C Bloomberg’s Plan for World Domination 141
Unit 9 Doing Academic Research 146
Unit 10 Ecology 154
Text A US Launches Eco-network 155
Text B Can We Replant the Planet’s Rainforests? 162
Text C To Save Trees, Fighting One Alien Insect with Others 168
Unit 11 Business Administration 175
Text A Dropping Shopping 176
Text B The Business of Survival 184
Text C Workers Earn Money on the Job for Losing Weight 190
Unit 12 Reporting Academic Work 196
参考文献 210