中学英语拓展阅读丛书

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1 A The History of Space Travel

1 B Neil Armstrong： First Person on the Moon

2 A What Is a Botanist?

2 B Do Plants Feel Pain?

3 A Lakes and Rivers

3 B Cleaning Up Rivers

4 A How Flight Is Possible

4 B Helicopters： Form and Function

5 A Earths Layers

5 B Making a Model of Earths Layers

6 A The Nobel Prizes

6 B Doctors Without Borders

7 A The Organs of the Body

7 B The Importance of Water in the Body

8 A Technology for People with Hearing or Visual Impairments

8 B Learning Sign Language

9 A The Importance of Vitamins and Minerals

9 B The Truth About Vitamin C

10 A Gymnastics： A Sport of Balance

10 B Training to Be a Gymnast

11 A Growing Plants from Seeds— Guaranteed!

11 B How Seeds Travel

12 A Precipitation

12 B Classroom Dew-Point Experiment

13 A Why Is the Ocean Blue?

13 B Primary Colors of Paint and Light

14 A How Humans Hear

14 B Sound-Wave Interference

15 A The History of Numbers

15 B Using Geometry to Solve Everyday Problems

16 A Venus： Earths Sister Planet

16 B Galileos Telescope

17 A What Is a Reptile?

17 B Poisonous Snakes of the United States

18 A The Parts of a Flowering Plant

18 B Animal Helpers in the Garden

19 A Gravity and Air Resistance

19 B Streamlined Trains

20 A Some Spiders of North America

20 B Dr. Charles Turner， Zoologist

21 A Plants and Animals in Ponds

21 B What Is an Ecosystem?

22 A Computer Memory and Storage

22 B From Punch Cards to DVDs

23 A Signs of Spring

23 B Josephs Nature Journal

24 A Stone， Brick， and Concrete

24 B Building the Brooklyn Bridge

25 A The Tropical Rainforest Biome

25 B Saving the Rain Forest

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