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