“全国外国语学校系列教材”是全国首套为外国语学校、省市**学校、外语特色学校、国际学校和双语学校度身定制的英语教材：依托外国语学校长期以来的外语教学优势，高屋建瓴，由**大学教授和全国知名外国语学校骨干教师编写，阵容强大；以**普通高中《英语课程标准》为指导，遵循外语教学的规律，吸收国外的先进教学理念，博采众长，时代感强；以全面提高学生的英语素质为目标，突出交际能力，全面培养学生听、说、读、写等技能和综合语言运用能力；以“互动、参与”为原则，体例新颖、语言活泼、图文并茂、寓教于乐，营造宽松和谐的课堂教学环境，引导学生自主学习；分为“必修”、“顺序选修”、“任意选修”三个系列，并配有教师用书、练习册、音带和多媒体教学辅助光盘。
《科技英语》是为��中生量身定做的一本选修课教材。本教材所选材料新颖，能够反映诸多学科*新的发展动向；内容陈述图文并茂，利于学生理解；在课文与练习设计中，充分考虑提高学生阅读能力，并兼顾基础知识的传授。

Text 1
Part 1. Warm-up (for reference only)
1. Do you have the experience of taking an airplane? Have you dreamed of traveling by spaceship one day?
Yes. That's very interesting.
Yes. I did once travel in space in my dream. It was so wonderful. Five, four, three, two, one -- take off! Slowly, and with a great roar, I was lifted off the ground by my spacecraft. All the people nearby cheered and shouted as they watched the flames and smoke come out of the bottom of the rocket. Oh, my, I was on my way to the space at last. But I knew that it was a dangerous journey. I was traveling at 40,000 kilometers an hour— that is 30 times faster than a jet engine. The force of gravity now pushed me back into my seat, and it was very difficult for me to move. But I knew this usually happened at take-off, and I wasn't so worried. I closed my eyes and waited. Out in space, the heat from the Sun is very, very great because there is no atmosphere around the spacecraft (like the Earth's atmosphere) to protect it from the Sun's heat. Looking out of the window, I could see the Earth. It was beautiful! The Earth was shining brightly, and it looked like a huge ball hanging in space. What a dream!
It was reported that some wealthy people in the U.S. went to the outer space for a trip. I believe some day in the near future some people in China will go there too and I'll be one of them. 21世纪是知识经济的时代。知识经济的主要特征就是经济和信息的全球化。在这种发展趋势下，外语理所当然地成为人类进入21世纪的通行证，是人类促进和平、繁荣经济、发展科技的重要工具。
全国**批外国语学校诞生于1963年。随着我国改革开放的深入发展，全国各地先后办起了不同类型的外国语学校。外国语学校的诞生，为我国外语人才的培养、为我国经济建设的发展做出了积极的贡献。
外国语学校是具有专业性教育的学校。它以外语教学为特色，同时全面发展中学的其他学科。“外国语学校的英语教学是中学英语教学的*高层次，是我国英语教学的领头羊。”社会上广泛使用的《看、听、学》（3L系列教材）、《新概念英语》、《展望未来英语教程》等教材都是首先在外国语学校**后逐步走向社会的。毋庸置疑，在党和政府的关心、指导下，在广大人民群众的理解和支持下，全国外国语学校过去办学的历史是辉煌的。形势的发展、社会的进步，呼唤外国语学校必须要有一套教学理念新颖、教学内容丰富、教学手段创新、适合我国国情的英语教材。为此，全国外国语学校工作理事会在1999年通过决议：集中全国外国语学校的精兵强将，依托全国外国语学校丰富的英语教学经验，编写出一套符合我国外国语学校（包括**中学）英语教学情况的英语系列教材，使外国语学校在外语教学方面真正起到示范性、辐射性的作用，不辜负**教育部、各地政府、广大人民群众对外国语学校寄予的殷切希望。通过数年的努力，《英语（全国外国语学校系列教材）》初中教材已全部编写完成并出版，得到了英语教学专家的一致肯定和使用师生的热烈欢迎，并且也顺利通过了教育部的审定。现在，《英语（全国外国语学校系列教材）》高中教材正式出版了。

Unit I
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: A Big Step Forward
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Life in Shenzhou VI
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit 2
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Electronics with Nine Lives
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Scientists Make Phone That Turns into a Sunflower
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit 3
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: A Worldwide Focus: Cloning
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: The Path to Dolly
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit 4
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Why Save Endangered Species?
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Endangered Species
unit 5
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: GM Foods -- Helping to Feed the World
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: The Future of GM Foods
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Small Wonders: Nanotechnology
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: How Nanotechnology Will Work
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit 7
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Climate Change
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Global Warming—Fact or Fiction
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit8
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Alternative Energy Sources
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Heat from the Ground
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: The Universe
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: The Future of the Universe
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Unit 10
Text I
Part I. Warm-up
Part II. The text: Being Wrongs Sometimes Wins the Prize
Part III. Reflection and discussion
Text II
Part I. The text: Nobel Prize: Do You Know
Part II. Reflection and discussion
Vocabulary
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