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『Core Topic Guide』제4권. 중급 이상의 독해 실력을 갖춘 학습자들이 지문 이해능력을 더욱 향상시킬 수 있도록 돕는 교재이다. 미국 교과과정식 주제별 토픽모음집으로 역사, 예술, 생물학, 인물학, 사회, 과학분야의 필수적인 상식을 쉽게 습득하며 배경지식과 독해 능력을 동시에 향상시킬 수 있다. 과거, 현재, 미래에 대한 특별한 이야기를 연대기 순으로 구성하여 시대의 흐름에 대한 감각을 느낄 수가 있다.

I. Astronomy & Medicine
1. Native American remedies
2. What Killed George Washington?
3. A Risky Operation
4. The First Anesthetics
5. The Amazing Story of Phineas Gage
6. Civil War Hospitals
7. Patent Medicines
8. Dr. Roe, the Nose Fixer
9. President Cleveland's Operation
10. Defeating Yellow Fever
11. The World's Tallest Man
12. Brain Damage and Investing

II. Astronomy
1. The "Moon Hoax" of 1835
2. "The Brick Moon"
3. The Comet Scare of 1910
4. The Man Who Discovered Pluto
5. The Hubble Space Telescope
6. What's That Thing on the Moon?
7. A "Gravitational Lens"
8. Politics and Space Missions
9. Planetoid Impacts
10. Exobiology
11. The Hunt for Comet Dust
12. Landing on Titan

III. Chemistry
1. The DuPont empire
2. The Petrochemical Society
3. Chemical Threats to Eagles
4. Melvin Calvin and Photosynthesis
5. Linus Pauling
6. An Element Rarer than Gold
7. Plastic Models
8. Glenn Seaborg
9. Other Biochemistries?
10. The Randon Controversy
11. Seeking a Monster's DNA
12. The Hydrogen Economy

IV. Physics
1. Benjamin Franklin, Physicist
2. The Rumford Fireplace
3. The Snowflake Man
4. Willard Gibbs
5. Albert Michaelson
6. Henrietta Swan Leavitt
7. Vannevar Bush's "Memex"
8. John von Neumann
9. The Richter Earthquake Scale
10. Cold fusion
11. Faster than Light?
12. The Physics of Tsunamis

V. Technology
1. Tepee Design
2. The Tomahawk
3. Household Technology in 1776
4. Thomas Jefferson, Inventor
5. Building the Fastest Ships
6. The "Caloric Engine"
7. The Rise of Railroad Technology
8. Who Invented the Steamboat?
9. How Radio Changed America
10. Transistor Radios
11. A Great Ship's Short Career
12. Nanotechnology