Unit One Social Security
Topic Reading： Extracts about Social Security
Extract 1 Social Security
Extract 2 Child Benefit
Extract 3 The Social Security Act
Extract 4 How the Social Fund Can Help You
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Two Television and Children
Topic Reading： Extracts from TV Violence and Children
Extract 1 Strangers in Our Homes：TV and Our Childrens Minds
Extract 2 Teaching Boys to Kill
Extract 3 Pulling the Plug on Televisions Sex and Violence
Extract 4 "Monkey See, Monkey Do" Debate Targets Sex and Violence
Extract 5 The V-Chip Controversy
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Three Banking
Topic Reading： Banking Extracts
Extract 1 Banks and Banking
Extract 2 Computerized Banking
Extract 3 The World Bank
Extract 4 The Federal Reserve System
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Four Genetic Engineering
Topic Reading： Genetic Engineering
Extract 1 Introduction
Extract 2 Patenting Recombinant DNA Products
Extract 3 Clone
Extract 4 Why Clone?
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Five Computer and Internet
Topic Reading： Computer Networking
Extract 1 Internet
Extract 2 AOL Warns Members to Keep Passwords Under Wraps
Extract 3 Outlook Email Security Update Now Available
Extract 4 IBM Aims to Put Computers on the Wrist
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Six Trade
Topic Reading 1： Extracts about Trade and Trade Organizations
Extract 1 Free Trade
Extract 2 Trade Organization
Topic Reading 2： The Future of International Trade in Services
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Seven Space Exploration
Topic Reading： Extracts from Space Exploration
Extract 1 ECLS and Human Space Flight
Extract 2 Looking for Earth-Like Planet
Extract 3 ULYSSES —— The Solar Polar Mission
Extract 4 Galileo Mission
Extract 5 Four-Wheeling on the Moon
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Eight Environment
Topic Reading： Extracts about Environment
Extract 1 Environment
Extract 2 Radioactive Fallout, DDT & Electric Power Generation
Extract 3 Environmental Effects of Acid Rain
Extract 4 Environment & Human Well-Being
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Nine Finance
Topic Reading 1： Extracts about Currency
Extract 1 Money
Extract 2 Exchange Rate
Topic Reading 2： Securities
Extract 3 Stock
Extract 4 Bond
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Unit Ten Digital Earth
Topic Reading： Extracts about the Digital Earth
Extract 1 Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century
Extract 2 Building up the Digital Earth Together,Sharing Global Data Resources Each Other
Extract 3 Geographic Exploration of Digital Earth
Supporting Reading Materials for Information and Discussion
Key to the Exercises
Glossary
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