本书所选材料新、覆盖面广，涉及包括基础学科到科技新领域的27个学科。每个学科为一个单元，文中对涉及到的疑难词语进行了详细的注释，并且文后配有练习。本书可用作为高校英语专业学生的教材，亦可用作科普英语读本。

Unit 1 Mathematics
Text A What is Mathematics, Anyway?
Exercises
Text B The Long Road to Calculus
Exercises
Text C Mathematics at Forefront of Gulf War
Exercises
Unit 2 Physics
Text A The Science of Matter, Space and Time
Exercises
Text B Light and Heat
Exercises
Unit 3 Chemistry
Text A What is Chemistry?
Exercises
Text B An Introduction-to Organic Chemistry
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Unit 4 Mechanical Engineering
Text A Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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Text B Continuous Manufacture
Exercises
Unit 5 Electronic Engineering
Text A The New Generation of Advanced Process Control
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Text B Power System Control in Next Century
Exercises
Unit 6 Electronic Engineering
Text A Basic Knowledge of Electronics
Exercises
Text B The Transistor and Its Basic Circuit
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Unit 7 Computer Science
Text A Computer and its Kind
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Text B Central Processing Unit(CPU)
Exercises
Unit 8 Network Engineering
Text A Computer Network
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Text B Internet and Remote Access
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Unit 9 Information Technology
Text A Information Technolog
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Text B Satellite Communication
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Text C Plug-and-Play Robots
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Unit 10 Energy Science
Text A Renewable Energy
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Text B Fuel for the Future
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Unit 11 Petrochemistry
Text A What is Petrochemistry?
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Text B Brief Introduction to Essential Oil Chemistry "
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Text C Petrochemistry in Everyday Life
Exercises
Unit 12 Textile Technology
Text A The New Textile Technology
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Unit 13 Materials Science
Text A Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
Exercises
Text B Materials Science
Exercises
Unit 14 Nanotechnology
Text A Nanotechnology
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Text B Machine-Phase Nanotechnology
Exercises
Unit 15 Medical Science
Text A AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
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Text B Nasal Solution Joins SARS Race
Exercises
Unit 16 Life Science
Text A Scientific Researches on Body's Rhythms
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Text B What Are Biorhythms?
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Unit 17 Bioengineering
Text A The Biotech Century
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Text B The Biological Switchboard
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Unit 18 Gone Technology
Text A First Transplant of Non-human Gone
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Text B The Age of Cloning
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Unit 19 Bionics
Text A Applied Bionics
Exercises
Text B Don' t Swat That Fly. It's A Spacecr~fft!
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Unit 20 Ecology
Text A Introduction to Ecology
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Text B Importance of Wetlands
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Unit 21 Environmental Technology
Text A Solar Wind Hammers the Ozone Layer
Exercises
Text B Wastewater Treatment
Exercises
Unit 22 Urban Planning and Development
Text A Urban Planning
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Text B Post-Modernism and Urban Planning
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Unit 23 Communication and Transportation
Text A Floating Trains: What a Way to Go
Exercises
Text B Electric Traction
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Unit 24 Auto Industry -
Text A The History and Future of Automobile Industry
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Text B Automobile Structure
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Unit 25 Aeronautics and Space Technology
Text A Downsized Spacecraft for the New Millennium
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Text B Piggy-backs in Space
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Unit 26 Oceanography
Text A Oceanography and Ocean Ramifications
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Text B Oceans at Risk
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Unit 27 Military Science
Text A A Third Generation of Nukes
Exercises
Text B“Star Trek”Shields to Protect Supertanks
Exercises
附录I 科技英语翻译ABC
附录Ⅱ 常用科技英语缩略语
附录Ⅲ 常用数学符号的英语表达
附录Ⅳ 常用度量衡单位英汉对照表
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