Unit 1
Text A Bill Gates' Speech to Tsinghua University (12 December, 1997)
Text B US Plans Large Funding Boost to Support Nanotechnology Boom
STYLISTICS Features of EST in Style and Structure (1)
Unit 2
Text A Information Management: Definitions and Some Aspects of It
Text B CGS-Unit System
Unit 3
Text A Genetic Engineering
Text B Introduction to the Human Genome Project
STYLISTICS Features of EST in Style and Structure(2)
Unit 4
Text A The Development of Mobile Communications in Cellular Phones
Text B Practical Electric Units and the Giolgi Proposal
Unit 5
Text A How IC Products Are Made?
Text B The Metric Convention
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST.. Modal Verbs & Post-modifiers
Practice Exercise I
Unit 6
Text A Major Research Areas in Physics Today
Text B The Significance of Measurement and Its Physically Developing
Unit 7
Text A Computer Crime -- Congress vs. Computer Crime
Text B The International Bureau of Weights and Measures
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST. Voice & Mood
Unit 8
Text A The Top 10 Innovative Products for 2006
Text B The Bioinformatics Gold Rush
Unit 9
Text A GPS
Text B The Greatest Extinction Gets Greater
STYLISTICS Grammatical Features of EST. Tense
Unit 10
Text A The Lamb That Roared
Text B Dick Whitcomb
Practice Exercise II
Key to Exercises
Glossary