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    朱倩、朱莎主编的《科技英语综合教程(高校专门用途英语ESP系列教材)》定位为应用型本科院校非英语专业学生使用的教材，作为大学英语拓展类课程教材，目的在于使学生直接了解专业前沿知识和技术发展现状，培养学生以英语为_T具获取相关专业所需信息的能力，提高学生阅读相关专业科技专刊和科技文选的能力，为高年级阶段阅读专业的英语文献打下良好的基础。
    本书参考答案请在ftp://ftp.tup.tsinghua.edu.cn/上下载。

Unit 1  Artificial Intelligence
  Text A  Artificial Intelligence: Friendly or Frightening?
  Text B  AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
  Text C  The Weapon of Doomsday: AI
Unit 2  Protect Our Planet
  Text A  How Would Just 2 Degrees of Warming Change the Planet?
  Text B  The Risk of Extinction Is Highest for Earth's Largest and Smallest Animals
  Text C 7 High-tech Tools to Combat Poaching
Unit 3  Virtual Reality
  Text A  How Virtual Reality Works
  Text B  Virtual Reality Helps Distract Kids from Painful Medical Procedures
  Text C  How Project Morpheus Works
Unit 4  Unmanned Technologies
  Text A  Drone Trends to Watch in 2018: Big Data, Flying Taxis, and Home Security
  Text B  Driver-less Cars and How They Would Change Motoring
  Text C  How Amazon Go Will Revolutionize Retail Convenience
Unit 5  New Energy and Climate
  Text A  Artificial Photosynthesis-the Potentially Cleanest Technology
  Text B  Turn CO2 into Valuable Products
  Text C  The Disruptive Power of the Renewables
Unit 6  Social Networking
  Text A  Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
  Text B  Social Media and the Big Data Explosion
  Text C  Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networking
Unit7  Space Exploration
  Text A  Leaders Satellites Space: the Next Startup Frontier
  Text B  Searching for Aliens: the Wow Factor
  Text C  China's Commercial Aerospace Dream Edgesloui Closer to Reality
Unit 8  Medical Science
  Text A  FDA Approval Brings First Gene Therapy to the United States
  Text B  After Surgery in the Womb,a Baby Is Kicking up Hope
  Text C  Current Alzheimer's Treatments