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Textbook Lots of specialized words involved Lots of English papers to read Write English papers Listening and speaking ability to communicate with others Enhance English abilities through translations Master specialized words during reading English papers Writing practice Speaking practice Fast reading practice Class performance: 20 scores Final examination: 80 scores Chemistry is such a broad, all-encompassing area of study that people almost despair in trying to define it. Chemistry is we all do. We bathe, clean, and cook. We put chemicals on our faces, hands, and hair. Your body itself is a remarkable chemical factory. You eat and breathe, taking in raw materials for the factory. You convert these supplies into an unbelievable array of products, some incredibly complex. This chemical factory -- your body also generates its own energy. It detects its own malfunctions and can regenerate and repair some of its component parts. It senses changes in its environment and adapts to these changes. With the aid of a neighboring facility, this fabulous factory can create other factories much like itself. Everything you do involves chemistry. You read this sentence, light energy is converted to chemical energy. You think, protein molecules are synthesized and stored in your brain. All of us do chemistry. Chemistry affects society as well as individuals. Chemistry is the language and the principal tool of the biological sciences, the health sciences, and the agricultural and earth sciences. Knowledge of chemistry has already had a profound effect on the quality of life. Its impact on the future will be even more dramatic. At present we can control diabetes, cure some forms of cancer, and prevent some forms of mental retardation because of our understanding of the chemistry of the body. We can’t cure diabetes or cure all forms of cancer or all mental retardation, because our knowledge is still limited. So learn as much as y