Lesson 1

Text Walking in Space

Reading First Steps on the Moon

Lesson 2

Text Educational Attitudes

Reading Education in the U.S.A

Lesson 3

Text Air Pollution

Reading The Current State of the World Environment

Lesson 4

Text Petroleum

Reading Petroleum

Lesson 5

Text Karaoke Bends to All Demands

Reading Edutainment May Be Education's Bright Future

Lesson 6

Text Hackers Are Enemy Number One on the Internet

Reading Communicating in the New Age

Lesson 7

Text The Credit Card Economy

Reading Bargains

Lesson 8

Text Management of Sino-foreign Joint Ventures

Reading Management of Sino-foreign Joint Ventures

Lesson 9

Text Albert Einstein—Person of the Century

Reading Dell Boy Made Good

Lesson 10

Text Work,Labor and Play

Reading Why People Work

Lesson 11

Text What Is Multimedia,Anyway

Reading Computer Viruses

Lesson 12

Text China's Links with the World Expand through Giant Cable

Reading Telecommunications for the 21st Century

Lesson 13

Text Climate and the Human Factor

Reading S.O.S

Lesson 14

Text The Categories of Accounting

Reading The Field of Accounting

Lesson 15

Text Going Grocery Shopping:Let Your Fingers Do the Walking

Reading The Networked Economy Explodes

Lesson 16

Text Cancer Vaccines

Reading AIDS—The Risk to Heterosexuals

Keys to Exercises＆Translation

Appendix Ⅰ Vocabulary

Appendix Ⅱ Phrases