Unit I Texts 1--4 1
IA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 1
1.Johnny Shiloh 1
2.True Tales of Pirate Treasure 6
3.A Hole-in-the-ground Hobby 11
4.My Bank Account 16
IB Learning about Skills and Words 21
IC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 25
5.The Career of Horace Greeley 27
ⅡA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 27
Unit Ⅱ Texts 5--8 27
6.High up in the Tropics 32
7.The Black Man in the Picture 37
8.Tame Vocanoes 42
ⅡB Learning about Skills and Words 47
ⅡC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 51
Unit Ⅲ Texts 9--12 53
ⅢA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 53
9.Danger in Space 53
10.The Seven Gifts 58
11.The Beau Catcher 63
12.The Voices of Time 68
ⅢB Learning about Skills and Words 73
ⅢC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 77
Unit Ⅳ Texts 13--16 79
ⅣA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 79
13.All Aboard for Europe 79
14.The First Man on the Moon 84
15.The Late Mr.Adams 89
16.Tiger Treasure 94
ⅣB Learning about Skills and Words 100
ⅣC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 104
Unit Ⅴ Texts 17--20 106
ⅤA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 106
17.Rain Is Born 106
18.The Warning Shot 111
19.North of the Arctic Circle 116
20.The Telephone and Its Inventor 121
ⅤB Learning about Skills and Words 126
ⅤC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 130
21.Marlin Perkins World 132
Unit Ⅵ Texts 21--24 132
ⅥA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 132
22.New York s Big Ditch 137
23.The Day the Big Top Burned 142
24.Forest Fires:A Major Disaster 147
ⅥB Learning about Skills and Words 152
ⅥC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 156
Unit Ⅶ Texts 25--28 158
ⅦA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 158
25.Stuck on Stamps 158
26.The Two-year Apple 164
27.The Star of the Magi 169
28.Horatius 174
ⅦB Learning about Skills and Words 180
ⅦC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 186
Unit Ⅷ Texts 29--32 188
ⅧA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 188
29.In Seven Minutes 188
30.She Signed Dollar Bills 193
31.Needed:Colonists for Space 198
32.A Separate Peace 203
ⅧB Learning about Skills and Words 210
ⅧC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 213
Unit Ⅸ Texts 33--36 215
ⅨA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 215
33.Lost over the Atlantic 215
34.Two Loaves of Bread 220
35.Zenobia--Queen of the East 225
36.Three Days to See 230
ⅨB Learning about Skills and Words 235
ⅨC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 239
Unit Ⅹ Texts 37-40 241
ⅩA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 241
37.The Time Nightshirt 241
38.A Triumph yet to Be Won:V-day in the Polio War 247
39.Man in a Hostile Land 253
40.The Big Switch 258
ⅩB Learning about Skills and Words 264
ⅩC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 269
Key to Exercises 271