Unit 1 Industry 4.0
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A Industry 4.0 Will Disrupt Existing Markets and Usher in Change
Text B Towards Industry 4.0: TEDA IS Making Chinese Manufacturing Smarter
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Sentence Analysis: Parts of Sentence
Unit 2 3D Technology
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A How 3D Food Printing Technology Is "Shaping" the Fobd Industry
Text B 10 Industries 3D Printing Will Disrupt or Decimate
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Heading
Unit 3 Manufacturing Systems
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A Manufacturing Systems: Changes in Methods of Manufacturing
Text B Gutenberg and Press Industry
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Classification
Unit 4 Robotechnology
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A U.S. Alliance in Robotics for Manufacturing Means Innovation, Education, More Jobs
Text B The Robotics Industry in China
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Examples
Unit 5 Mechanical Engineering and Transportation
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A China's First Homemade Passenger Plane and Its Influence on Boeing
Text B Leonardo da Vinci: the Engineer
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Statistics
Unit 6 Artificial Intelligence
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A The Top Myths about Advanced AI
Text B How to Create AI That Can Safely Navigate Our World -- An
Interview with Andre Platzer
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Listing
Unit 7 Machinery and Life
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A Mechanical Watch
Text B Washing Machine
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Fact and Opinion
Unit 8 Leading Figures
Part One Extensive Reading
Text A The Father of Railways -- George Stephenson
Text B Inventor of Steam Engine -- James Watt
Part Two Reading Skill Development
Paragraph Development: Cause and Effect
Unit 9 Leading Enterprises