编著者还有：贾黎明、金岩、杨琳琳

　　自序
　　前言
　　本书使用说明
　　Lesson 1 Finding fossil man/1
　　Lesson 2 Spare that spider/6
　　Lesson 3 Matterhorn man/9
　　Lesson 4 Seeing hands/15
　　Lesson 5 Youth/18
　　Lesson 6 The sporting spirit/24
　　Lesson 7 Bats/30
　　Lesson 8 Trading standards/35
　　Lesson 9 Royal espionage/41
　　Lesson 10 Silicon valley/47
　　Lesson 11 How to grow old/52
　　Lesson 12 Banks and their customers/57
　　Lesson 13 The search for oil/62
　　Lesson 14 The Butterfly Effect/66
　　Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry/71
　　Lesson 16 The modern city/75
　　Lesson 17 A man．made disease/83
　　Lesson 18 Porpoises/90
　　Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams/95
　　Lesson 20 Snake poison/100
　　Lesson 21 William S．Hart and the early‘Western’ film/105
　　Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress/111
　　Lesson 23 Bird flight/116
　　Lesson 24 Beauty/121
　　Lesson 25 Non-auditory effects of noise/127
　　Lesson 26 The past life of the earth/132
　　Lesson 27 The‘Vasa’/136
　　Lesson 28 Patients and doctors/143
　　Lesson 29 The hovercraft/147
　　Lesson 30 Exploring the sea-floor/150
　　Lesson 31 The sculptor speaks/155
　　Lesson 32 Galileo reborn/159
　　Lesson 33 Education/166
　　Lesson 34 Adolescence/171
　　Lesson 35 Space odyssey/176
　　Lesson 36 The cost of government/180
　　Lesson 37 The process of ageing/185
　　Lesson 38 Water and the traveler/190
　　Lesson 39 What every writer wants/194
　　Lesson 40 Waves/199
　　Lesson 41 Training elephants/205
　　Lesson 42 Recording an earthquake/211
　　Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space?/214
　　Lesson 44 Patterns of culture/218
　　Lesson 45 Of men and galaxies/225
　　Lesson 46 Hobbies/229
　　Lesson 47 The great escape/235
　　Lesson 48 Planning a share portfolio}241
　　附录 词汇连连看答案/246