本套丛书分为五本：政治、经济、文化、科技和社会生活。可以满足不同层次英语水平读者的需要。对中级英语水平的读者，可以作为快速阅读理解的材料，尤其对准备参加四、六级考试和研究生入学考试的读者，不失为一套很好的阅读理解训练的资料；对高级英语水平的读者，可以提供一个更多了解西方社会的窗口。

1.The Facts About Animal Research

2.Conquering Cancer:The Latest Advances

3.All About Twins

4.Questions Car Owners Ask Most

5.The Mounting Menace of Steroids

6.America's Ice-Age Legacy

7.Search for the Wrinkle-Free Face

8.A New Heart for Andrew

9.When to Say No to Surgery

10.Get Ready for a Robot Butler

11.Swamped by Our Own Sewage

12.A Gift of Sight

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Four years ago I was part of a surgical team trying to remove a malignant tumor from the brain of a nine-year-old girl.