1 A The Ancient Greek Temple 1
1 B The Greek Revival Style:Architecture for a New Nation 3
2 A Reginald Fessenden:The Forgotten Father of Radio 5
2 B Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds 7
3 A The Makah Nation:Whale Hunters 9
3 B The Makah Whaling Canoe 11
4 A The Fifties:Teenagers,Rebellion,and the Movies 13
4 B Movie Fad of the Fifties:Seeing in 3-D 15
5 A Tycoons and Antitrust Laws 17
5 B Henry Clay Frick:A Mixed Legacy 19
6 A The Protestant Reformation:Changes in Religion,Changes in Society 21
6 B The Modern Amish:Descendents of the Anabaptists 23
7 A Pharoah Akhenaten and the Amarna Period 25
7 B The Amarna Tablets 27
8 A Corn in the Legends of the Sioux 29
8 B Alice Cunningham Fletcher 31
9 A Taos,New Mexico:An Artists'Colony 33
9 B Georgia O'Keeffe 35
10 A Benito Mussolini:"He Made the Trains Run on Time" 37
10 B What Is Fascism? 39
11 A The Roaring Twenties 41
11 B Vaudeville:Entertainment for All People 43
12 A Imperial Russia:The Romanovs and Feudalism 45
12 B Peter Ⅰ and Catherine Ⅱ:The Westernization of Russia 47
13 A Beyond the Factory:Child Labor in the Cities 49
13 B Vachel Lindsay:Poet for Ordinary People 51
14 A Opera:The Basics 53
14 B Madam Butterfly and Miss Saigon 55
15 A Medieval Maps:Choosing the Center of the World 57
15 B The Hereford Map 59
16 4 African Slavery in America:1600-1865 61
16 B A Narrative That Helped to Change the World 63
17 4 Ellen Swallow Richards and the Science of Home Economics 65
17 B The Association of Collegiate Alumnae:Women and Higher Education 67
18 A The Tour de France 69
18 B A Brief History of the Bicycle 71
19 A Indonesia's Minangkabau 73
19 B A Padang Feast 75
20 A A Debate:The Impact of Prohibition 77
20 B Al Capone and Eliot Ness 79
21 A Suleiman I,the Magnificent 81
21 B The Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul 83
22 A The Inca Trail 85
22 B The Nasca Lines 87
23 A The Road to the Oval Office 89
23 B Campaign Funding and the Outcome of Elections 91
24 A History of Capital Punishment 93
24 B The Debate over Capital Punishment 95
附录 97
Answer Key 97
Reading Rate 99
Comprehension Score 100
Comprehension Skills Profile 101