Unit 1

Reading Selection:Americans Want to Work——But Need Leisure,Too

Exercises

Word Study:Context Clues

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Paragraph Reading:Main Idea

Unit 2

Reading Selection 1:Television in the Lives of Children and Their Families

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Mind Your Manners!

Exercises

Reading Selection 3:Tides

Exercise

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Unit 3

Reading Selection:Black Holes

Exercises

Word Study:Context Clues

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Skimming

Unit 4

Reading Selection 1:Earthmen Bearing Gifts

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Getting Out of Hot Water

Exercise

Reading Selection 3:Aztecs

Exercise

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Unit 5

Reading Selection:Bringing Corporate Know-how To Class

Exercises

Word Study:Context Clues

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Scanning

Unit 6

Reading Selection 1:When Snow Melts,Where Does the White Go?

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Venus——The Burning Question

Exercise

Reading Selection 3:Charles Ives

Exercise

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Unit 7

Reading Selection:Career-long Learning:What Can Colleges Do?

Exercises

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Sentence Study:Restatement and Inference

Paragraph Reading:Restatement and Inference

Unit 8

Reading Selection 1:The Art of the Stupid Question

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:The Japan That Can't Say No to Overtime

Exercise

Reading Selection 3:Don't Step on the Toys,Grandpa!

Exercise

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Unit 9

Reading Selection:Why I Want to be a Chemist in the Twenty-First Century

Exercises

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Sentence Study:Restatement and Inference

Sentence Study:Comprehension

Unit 10

Reading Selection 1:A Little About Patents

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Sailing into the Millennium

Exercise

Reading Selection 3:Small Animals With Big Futures

Exercise

Word Study:Stemsand Affixes

Unit 11

Reading Selection:Jack Matson

Exercises

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Sentence Study:Comprehension

Paragraph Reading:Reading for Full Understanding

Unit 12

Reading Selection 1:The Creative Scientific Genius

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Are We Happy Yet?

Exercise

Reading Selection 3:Are We Happy Yet?

Exercise

Word Study:Stems and Affixes

Unit 13

Reading Selection 1:Edible Landscaping

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Wild Metaphors Nature as Machine or Person?

Exercises

Unit 14

Reading Selection 1:JohnDalton and Colour Confusion

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:A Time for Honesty

Exercises

Unit 15

Reading Selection 1:Last Resort for the Mediterranean

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:A Solar Eclipse for Everyone

Exercises

Unit 16

Reading Selection 1:Thomas Jefferson Pragmatist Or Visionary?

Exercises

Reading Selection 2:Of Love,Physics and Other Passions:The Letters of Albert and Mileva

Exercises

Appendix

Answer Key