1 A States of the Middle Atlantic Region 1
1 B William Penn's Legacy 3
2 A The Shy Angel 5
2 B A Woman with a Flare for Success 7
3 A Australian Aborigines:Living with a Land and a Legacy 9
3 B Early Tools and Toolmaking 11
4 A John F.Kennedy:Soft on Civil Rights? 13
4 B Bringing History Back to the White House 15
5 A Film and the Depression 17
5 B Edison's Kinetoscope and the Birth of the Movies 19
6 A The Genius of Ancient Rome 21
6 B Augustus and the Pax Romana 23
7 A Haves and Have-Nots in the 1950s 25
7 B Homelessness in the Twenty-First Century 27
8 A I Do,I Do—In Any Tradition 29
8 B Making a Match:The Role of the Shadchan 31
9 A The Changing Roles of American Women 33
9 B Helen Keller's Activism 35
10 A The Russians and the Aleuts 37
10 B The Aleuts of the Pribilofs 39
11 A Map Projections 41
11 B Mercator If by Sea 43
12 A The Electoral College 45
12 B Andrew Jackson and the Electoral System 47
13 A A Navel Journey 49
13 B Hazardous Harvests 51
14 A The Birth of Credit and Debt 53
14 B Using Credit Cards the Smart Way 55
15 A Gandhi and Nehru:Shared Goals,Opposing Values 57
15 B Celebrating Independence 59
16 A Sputnik Sparks the Space Race 61
16 B The"Sputnik Effect" 63
17 A Japan's Unruly Geography 65
17 B What Is an Archipelago? 67
18 A The Tension Between Free Enterprise and Government Regulation 69
18 B Food from the'Hood 71
19 A The Emancipation Proclamation:"A Fit and Necessary War Measure" 73
19 B The Fighting 54th 75
20 A Jury Duty,Jury Rights 77
20 B Selecting Judges 79
21 A The Haitian Revolution:Casting Out the Caste System 81
21 B Toussaint Louverture,the Sudden Hero 83
22 A Jefferson and Hamilton:Hate that Shaped a Nation 85
22 B Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations 87
23 A Beware the Air 89
23 B Pedaling Against Pollution 91
24 A The Many Battles of World War Ⅱ Military Women 93
24 B Oveta Culp Hobby:Woman Warrior 95
附录 97
Answer Key 97
Reading Rate 99
Comprehension Score 100
Comprehension Skills Profile 101