1 A The Oregon Trail 1
1 B The Prairie Schooner 3
2 A Culture:A Total Identity 5
2 B What Is Cultural Anthropology? 7
3 A The Military and Careers in Aviation 9
3 B Aircraft Carriers:A Nation Afloat 11
4 A Honduras and Hurricane Mitch 13
4 B The United Nations and Disaster Relief 15
5 A The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 17
5 B The Search for Prosperity:Business on the Reservation 19
6 A Who Writes the President's Speeches? 21
6 B One Man Behind the Words:J.Terry Edmonds,Presidential Speechwriter 23
7 A Three Writers of World War Ⅰ 25
7 B What Did You Do in the War,Grandfather? 27
8 A Civil Rights Struggles of the 1950s and 1960s 29
8 B Changing the World Through Peaceful Means 31
9 A Picturing the American West 33
9 B Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms 35
10 A Changing Hemlines:The Stock Market and Fashion 37
10 B A More Natural Approach:Dress Reform in the Victorian Era 39
11 A Aztlan and the Cities of Gold:The Intersection of Legends 41
11 B Collecting Oral History 43
12 A Heroines of the American Revolution 45
12 B Anne Hutchinson:The Courage of Her Convictions 47
13 A Interstate Highway System 49
13 B Boston's MBTA and the Progress of Public Transportation 51
14 A Playing for Pay:Amateurs,Professionals,and the Olympic Games 53
14 B Jim Thorpe:Olympic Champion or Not? 55
15 A Phoenicia and the Mediterranean World 57
15 B Vacationing in Costa del Sol 59
16 A The Historic Columbia River Highway 61
16 B Sister Cities:Sapporo and Portland 63
17 A Lending and Borrowing 65
17 B Student Loans:Getting the Education You Want 67
18 A The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 69
18 B Raoul Wallenberg:The Hero Who Disappeared 71
19 A John Lackland and the Magna Carta 73
19 B Wat Tyler and the English Peasants'Revolt 75
20 A Prisons and Reform 77
20 B Mothers in Prison 79
21 A The Community College:Meeting the Needs of the People 81
21 B Technology and Distance Learning in Higher Education 83
22 A The Maori of New Zealand 85
22 B Music of the Maori 87
23 A Americans and Their Cars 89
23 B Route 66:The Main Street of America 91
24 A World Languages 93
24 B Endangered Languages 95
附录 97
Answer Key 97
Reading Rate 99
Comprehension Score 100
Comprehension Skills Profile 101