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Unit 1
Text A An Impression of Zhu Diwen - A Nobel Physics Prize Winner of Chinese Descent/1
Text B The Nobel Prize: A Brief Introduction/7
Supplementary Reading Over to You, China/12
Tips英文報刊閱讀（一）／16
Unit 2
Text A World Digital Library Planned/17
Text B Shanghai Library/23
Supplementary Reading The German Problem/28
Tips英文報刊閱讀（二）／33
Unit 3
Text A Seven Proven Career Boosters/35
Text B You Are Fired! /42
Supplementary Reading Whose Lost Decade? /47
Tips英文報刊閱讀（三）／51
Unit 4
Text A Hungry for Your Love/53
Text B A Kiss for Kate/59
Supplementary Reading Computer Network/64
Tips英文報刊閱讀（四）／68
Unit 5
Text A Hospice Care:When Comfort, Not Cure, Is the Focus/70
Text B Making Your Dying Loved One More Comfortable/77
Supplementary Reading Fluid Mechanics in Engineering/82
Tips英文報刊閱讀（五）／85
Unit 6
Text A Missed the Energy Crisis? We Hardly Knew Yet/87
Text B Tips & Tricks of Saving Energy/93
Supplementary Reading Cloud Computing/98
Tips英文報刊閱讀（六）／104
Unit 7
Text A Music Hath Charms to Raise Kids' IQs/106
Text B Guitars and Rockets: Surprising Similarity Between/112
Supplementary Reading Virtual Manufacturing/118
Tips英文報刊鬮讀（七）／122
Unit 8
Text A Are We Really Shocked? /125
Text B Performance Drugs Outrun the Olympics/130
Supplementary Reading Operating System (OS)/134
Tips英文報刊閱讀（八）／138
Unit 9
Text A Computer: The General Characteristics of the Four Types/141
Text B The Needs Analysis of a Laptop/148
Supplementary Reading Stainless Steel/154
Tips英文報刊閱讀（九）／159
Unit 10
Text A A Simple Truth about Happiness/161
Text B Money and Happiness/166
Supplementary Reading Shaper, Planer, Milling and Grinding Machines/171
Tips英文報刊閱讀（十）／174
Unit 11
Text A Japan: The Coolest of the Cool/176
Text B Unique Traditions from U. K./182
Supplementary Reading E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)/187
Unit 12
Text A Are Your Beauty Products Killing You? /191
Text B Men and Cosmetic Surgery/197
Supplementary Reading Numerical Control/202
Tips英文論文摘要范例／207
KeytoExerclses／211
Glossary／223

The German Problem
To save the single currency, Angela Merkel must take on her own country'seconomic establishment.
1 EVEN by Europe's cacophonous standards, German policymakers sent mixedsignals on the euro this week. At her party's conference on November 14th thechancellor, Angela Merkel, left no doubt about the gravity of the euro crisis (seeCharlemagne). "If the euro fails, then Europe fails," she said.
2 On the same day Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, roiled financialmarkets with hardline comments designed to close off options for managing the crisis.He ruled out relying on the European Central Bank (ECB) as a lender of last resort togovernments, arguing it would be illegal and wrong for the bank to hold down bondyields. Even the current (limited) bond purchases needed to stop. The only way torestore investor confidence in countries such as Italy, he believes, is for theirgovernments to introduce bold reforms.
3 Mr Weidmann is not a lone ideologue. Mario Draghi, the ECB's new Italianpresident, has ruled out acting as a lender of last resort to governments, albeit lesscategorically. Mr Weidmann has his supporters among the Finns and the Dutch, too.But the rigidity of his argument is embedded in the solid rock that is Germany'seconomic establishment, which holds that big rescues are counterproductive becausethey both dull governments' incentives to act and create new dangers. Pooling risksthrough Eurobonds would tempt dodgy southern European governments to greater.Central-bank bond-buying would fuel inflation. Far better, goes the standard Germanline, to remain principled and just say no.
4 And it is true that soaring bond yields, or the fear thereof, have pushedgovernments, including France and Spain, to act. Were it not for pressure from thebond markets, Silvio Berlusconi might have blundered on in Italy, delaying difficultdecisions on the economy. The Germans and others are also right to worry that a centralbank that buys boatloads of government bonds will eventually cause inflation. Theproblem is that the dogmatic prescriptions of the "German orthodoxy" are pushing thesingle currency towards collapse. If Mrs Merkel wants to save the euro, therefore, shemust challenge her country's economic establishment, and explain to voters why therevered Bundesbank's rigidity is wrong.