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Unit 1 1

Reading Selection:Americans Want to Work——But Need Leisure,Too 1

Exercises 4

Word Study:Context Clues 8

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 14

Paragraph Reading:Main Idea 16

Unit 2 25

Reading Selection 1:Television in the Lives of Children and Their Families 25

Exercises 28

Reading Selection 2:Mind Your Manners! 33

Exercises 35

Reading Selection 3:Tides 37

Exercise 39

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 41

Unit 3 44

Reading Selection:Black Holes 44

Exercises 47

Word Study:Context Clues 50

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 55

Skimming 57

Unit 4 68

Reading Selection 1:Earthmen Bearing Gifts 68

Exercises 71

Reading Selection 2:Getting Out of Hot Water 74

Exercise 77

Reading Selection 3:Aztecs 78

Exercise 80

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 81

Unit 5 84

Reading Selection:Bringing Corporate Know-how To Class 84

Exercises 88

Word Study:Context Clues 93

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 94

Scanning 96

Unit 6 109

Reading Selection 1:When Snow Melts,Where Does the White Go? 109

Exercises 113

Reading Selection 2:Venus——The Burning Question 116

Exercise 118

Reading Selection 3:Charles Ives 119

Exercise 122

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 124

Unit 7 127

Reading Selection:Career-long Learning:What Can Colleges Do? 127

Exercises 132

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 137

Sentence Study:Restatement and Inference 139

Paragraph Reading:Restatement and Inference 143

Unit 8 152

Reading Selection 1:The Art of the Stupid Question 152

Exercises 156

Reading Selection 2:The Japan That Can't Say No to Overtime 160

Exercise 164

Reading Selection 3:Don't Step on the Toys,Grandpa! 166

Exercise 170

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 170

Unit 9 173

Reading Selection:Why I Want to be a Chemist in the Twenty-First Century 173

Exercises 177

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 180

Sentence Study:Restatement and Inference 182

Sentence Study:Comprehension 186

Unit 10 193

Reading Selection 1:A Little About Patents 193

Exercises 196

Reading Selection 2:Sailing into the Millennium 201

Exercise 204

Reading Selection 3:Small Animals With Big Futures 205

Exercise 215

Word Study:Stemsand Affixes 216

Unit 11 219

Reading Selection:Jack Matson 219

Exercises 223

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 227

Sentence Study:Comprehension 229

Paragraph Reading:Reading for Full Understanding 235

Unit 12 246

Reading Selection 1:The Creative Scientific Genius 246

Exercises 249

Reading Selection 2:Are We Happy Yet? 253

Exercise 258

Reading Selection 3:Are We Happy Yet? 259

Exercise 265

Word Study:Stems and Affixes 266

Unit 13 268

Reading Selection 1:Edible Landscaping 268

Exercises 273

Reading Selection 2:Wild Metaphors Nature as Machine or Person? 279

Exercises 282

Unit 14 284

Reading Selection 1:JohnDalton and Colour Confusion 284

Exercises 290

Reading Selection 2:A Time for Honesty 297

Exercises 302

Unit 15 305

Reading Selection 1:Last Resort for the Mediterranean 305

Exercises 310

Reading Selection 2:A Solar Eclipse for Everyone 316

Exercises 321

Unit 16 323

Reading Selection 1:Thomas Jefferson Pragmatist Or Visionary? 323

Exercises 329

Reading Selection 2:Of Love,Physics and Other Passions:The Letters of Albert and Mileva 336

Exercises 359

Appendix 364

Answer Key 376