Passage Nineteen (TVs Harmfulness) Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television? How often we hear statements like this! Television hasnt been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was li... 【阅读全文】

Passage Eighteen (Strictly Ban smoking) If you smoke and you still dont believe that theres a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse... 【阅读全文】

Passage Seventeen (On the Presidents Program) President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress. It provides a coordinated program of investment credits, research grants, education reforms, and tax... 【阅读全文】

Passage Sixteen (Mules) Although the top men in smuggling business must work together, most of a syndicates small fry, especially the mules, know only their immediate contacts. If caught there is little they can give away. A mule probably w... 【阅读全文】

Passage Fifteen (Contribution of Coeducation) Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with you,... 【阅读全文】

Passage Fourteen(Antarctica and Environment) Antarctica has actually become a kind of space station a unique observation post for detecting important changes in the worlds environment. Remote from major sources of pollution and the complex... 【阅读全文】

Passage Thirteen (The Neutrality of American in the Early World War II) The establishment of the Third Reich influenced events in American history by starting a chain of events which culminated in war between Germany and the United States.... 【阅读全文】

Passage Twelve (We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy) Heres a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he... 【阅读全文】

Passage Eleven (Superconducting Materials) The stone age, The Iron Age. Entire epochs have been named for materials. So what to call the decades ahead? The choice will be tough. Welcome to the age of superstuff. Material science -- once th... 【阅读全文】

Passage ten(Antinuclear Demonstration) Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135... 【阅读全文】