《研究生英语通用系列教材 泛读教程》

CONTENTS3

Part One3

1．One Car a Minute3

2．A Matter of Honor11

3．Man in Flight18

4．The Open Boat27

5．Twenty-First Century Science and Technology35

6．Wings Across the Atlantic43

7．The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones50

8．The Story of Creative Men57

9．Advertising64

10．My Financial Career72

11．Seeing People Off78

12．An Inner-City Education87

13．World Population Continues to Rise94

14．Daddy Tucked the Blanket105

15．The Midnight Visitor113

16．The Coca-Cola Company s First Hundred Years120

17．American s Life in the New Age of Science and Technology128

18．Movies of Long Ago136

19．Home144

20．Six Economic Myths153

21．Lord Peter s Party Trick163

22．How to Relax in a Crowd173

23．Knowledge and Wisdom182

24．The Trouble with Fast Foods190

25．The Role of Chance in Scientific Discovery197

26．A Clean,Well-Lighted Place205

27．Asia,a Major Exporter of Ideas214

28．Hong Kong and China:Looking to the Future221

29．Whv People Work229

30．America s Secret Shame241

31．Sculpture and Science:Unlikely Partners in CrimeDetection250

32．The Art of Turning Failure into Success259

33．Foods That Sharpen Your Mind272

34．How to Snack Your Way to Great Shape280

35．The Snob289

36．Julian s Last Hope299

37．How the Camera Fights Crime309

38．Your and Your Memory316

39．Warning!This House Contains Radon330

40．The Next Giant Leap for Mankind338

41．Attack from the Ocean Deep345

42．Life on Other Planets355

43．The World House363

44．Self-Identification and Self-Expression373

45．A Right to Die381

46．An Address on Food and Resources389

47．The Art of Teaching Science402

48．Education and Social Change414

49．What s in Paycheck Varies with Skill,Schooling, Sex424

50．Blacks Return to Africa but U.S.Is Home435

51．Triplets...And They Didn t Know It444

52．We re Tongue-Tied454

53．Tarahumara:Runners of the West462

54．The Light Way473

55．Would Americans Man Death Camps?481

56．Health492

57．Masculine Expression of Emotion498

58．Marketing in the Future508

59．The Fragile Earth517

60．The Sounds of Silence526

61．Memory:Why We Remember…Why We Forget541

62．Huge Family Takes Hard Times in Stride554

63．Honesty:Is It Going Out of Style?563

64．Your Name Is Your Destiny572

65．The Plug-In Drug582

Part Two601

1．Job-Sharing601

2．Sports and Education605

3．Is an Atomic Car Possible?610

4．Insurance614

5．An Agreement617

6．Time621

7．Friendships625

8．Auction629

9．Earth Learned Anew632

10．How to Give a Good Speech636

11．Surgery640

12．The Air Hostess644

13．The Voices of Time647

14．Clocks Through Time652

15．Drug Addiction in the United States656

16．Pottery661

17．The Stranger665

18．Bamama Goes to College669

19．Motorcycling673

20．An African Student in the United States677

21．The Ocean683

22．The Education of Benjamin Franklin686

23．A Single Culture692

24．The Planemakers696

25．Doing Something About City Problems700

26．Museums in the Modern World705

27．How Computers Are Changing Our World710

28．Learning How to Make Rain715

29．School and Sports in Ancient Greece721

30．A Medieval Discoverer726

Bibliography732