Unit 1

     Text A  Bill Gates' Speech to Tsinghua University (12 December, 1997)

     Text B  US Plans Large Funding Boost to Support Nanotechnology Boom

     STYLISTICS  Features of EST in Style and Structure (1)

Unit 2

     Text A  Information Management: Definitions and Some Aspects of It  

     Text B  CGS-Unit System

Unit 3

     Text A  Genetic Engineering

     Text B  Introduction to the Human Genome Project

     STYLISTICS  Features of EST in Style and Structure(2)

Unit 4

     Text A The Development of Mobile Communications in Cellular Phones

     Text B  Practical Electric Units and the Giolgi Proposal

Unit 5

     Text A  How IC Products Are Made?

     Text B The Metric Convention

     STYLISTICS  Grammatical Features of EST.. Modal Verbs & Post-modifiers

Practice Exercise I

Unit 6

     Text A  Major Research Areas in Physics Today

     Text B The Significance of Measurement and Its Physically Developing

Unit 7

     Text A Computer Crime -- Congress vs. Computer Crime

     Text B  The International Bureau of Weights and Measures  

     STYLISTICS  Grammatical Features of EST. Voice & Mood

Unit 8

     Text A The Top 10 Innovative Products for 2006

     Text B The Bioinformatics Gold Rush

Unit 9

     Text A GPS

     Text B The Greatest Extinction Gets Greater

     STYLISTICS  Grammatical Features of EST. Tense

Unit 10

     Text A The Lamb That Roared

     Text B  Dick Whitcomb

Practice Exercise II

Key to Exercises

Glossary