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（Ａ级）  目录 1. Batteries　Built　by　Viruses 1 2. Putting Plants to Work 3 3. Listening Device Provides Landslide Early Warning 5 4. Dont Drink Alone Gets New Meaning 7 5. Life Form Found on Saturns Titan 9 6. Clone Farm 11 7. Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety 13 8. Too Little for Global Warming 15 9. Renewable Energy Sources 17 10. Forecasting Methods 19 11. Defending the Theory of Evolution Still Seems Needed 21 12. Small But Wise 23 13. Ants Have Big Impacton Environment as Ecosystem Engineers 25 14. Listening to Birdsong 27 15. Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright 29 16. U.S. Scientists Confirm Water on Mars 31 17. Cell Phones Increase Traffic, Pedestrian Fatalities 33  Batteries　Built　by　Viruses 病毒电池 What do chicken pox, the common cold, the flu, and AIDS have in common? Theyre all disease caused by viruses, tiny microorganisms that can pass from person to person. Its no wonder that when most people think about viruses, finding ways to steer clear of viruses is whats on peoples minds. 水痘、普通感冒、流感和艾滋病有哪些相似之处呢？这些都是由病毒引起的疾病，病毒是能够在人与人之间传染的微生物。难怪大部分人一提到病毒，首先想到的是如何躲避病毒。 Not everyone runs from the tiny disease carriers, though. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, scientists have discovered that some viruses can be helpful in an unusual way. They are putting viruses to work, teaching them to build some of the worlds smallest rechargeable batteries. 然而，并不是每个人都躲避这些疾病携带者。在马萨诸塞州剑桥市，科学家发现有些病毒能起到非同寻常的作用。他们使病毒开始工作，使病毒构成世界上最小的充电电池。 Viruses and batteries may seem like an unusual pair, but theyre not so strange for engineer Angela Belcher, who first came up with the idea. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, she and her collaborators bring together different areas of science in new ways. In the case of the virus-built batteries, the scientists combine what they know about biology, technology and production techniques. 病毒和电池的搭档似乎并不常见，