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CONTENTS1

目录1

1．Adult Education1

2．An Open-Classroom System5

3．Wind Power9

4．The World of Robots12

5．Computers15

6．Can It Really Happen?18

7．How New York Became America s Largest City22

8．The Uses of Science26

9．Elements and Atoms30

10．Conservation of Energy34

1 1．What Makes Objects Float?37

12．Why Study Math?41

13．Radio Telescope46

14．The Energy Crisis50

15．Petroleum(Ⅰ)53

16．Petroleum(Ⅱ)57

17．Clocks through Time61

18．The Youngest Painter in the World66

19．The Twenty-First Century70

20．The First Supersonic Flight73

21．Markets77

22．Has the United States Lost Its Ability to Compete?80

23．Culture and Market84

24．He Led a Useful Life87

25．Learning by Doing92

26．Interview95

27．Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well?99

28．Facts about Gases,Liquids and Solids103

29．The King of Comedy106

30．Carbon111

31．The Architect114

32．Heat Loss from the Human Body117

33．The Petrochemical Industry121

34．The First Postage Stamp125

35．American s Life in the New Age of Science and Technology129

36．Does Travel Broaden the Mind?133

37．The Planemakers138

38．Measurement141

39．The Scientific Exploration of Space144

40．The Salt of the Earth147

41．Oil as A Fuel151

42．Preface(From The Petroleum Dictionary)155

43．Petroleum Recovery158

44．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅰ)162

45．Introduction to Reservoir Engineering(Ⅱ)166

46．The 40,000-Mile Phone Call170

47．Latent Heat174

48．Jules Verne178

49．Crude Oil Prices182

50．Oil Drilling185

51．Water189

52．Molecules193

53．Mass197

54．Energy and Public Safety201

55．A World without Oil205

56．Refining Petroleum209

57．The Oil Companies213

58．The Engineering Profession217

59．Language Learning221

60．Can Stress Make You Sick?224

61．Smoking and Cancer227

62．How Americans Eat and Drink231

63．Scientists Laboring to Make Computers Learn to Think235

64．Supertelevision239

65．An Ultrasonic Torch243

66．The Telephone and Its Inventor247

67．The Crisis of Government Policy in Energy252

68．How the Canadian Experience Can Contribute to China s GrowingPetroleum Industry256

69．Economic Justification259

70．Petroleum Engineering Education in the Year 2000263

71．Energy:Global Prospects 1985—2000268

72．Culture Shock and the Petroleum of Adjustment in New CulturalEnvironments272

73．What Science Is?278

74．Scientific Knowledge282

75．Sources of Error in Scientific Investigation285

76．Minerals,Metals and Mining289

77．Improving Industrial Efficiency through Robotics293

78．World Food and Natural Resources Outlook in 2000296

79．The Changing Concept of Marketing300

80．Earth Resources Technology Satellites303

81．Small Business306

82．What s Your Best Time of Day?310

83．Foreign Exchange Trading315

84．Computers in Education(Ⅰ)319

85．Computers in Education(Ⅱ)323

86．How Does A Computer“Follow Instructions”？327

87．The Second Information Revolution331

88．The Environmental Pollution335

89．Making Steels of Very High Strengths338

90．Foreword342

91．The Metric System347

92．The Corporation352

93．The Age of Superstuff355

94．How Laws Are Passed359

95．How and When to Give Your Car a Break362

96．Advertisements368

97．Control Earthquakes373

98．Congestion377

99．International Cooperation of Science380

100．Preface384

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