Unit I Texts 1—4
IA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
1. In Search of Silence
2. Robert Baden-Powell, Secret Agent
3. Safeguarding Life
4. Along the Mighty Thames
IB Learning about Reading Skills
IC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit II Texts 5—8
IIA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
5. The House That Hippo Built
6. Religions of the East
7. Manners Here, Manners There
8. The House of Alphonse
IIB Learning about Reading Skills
IIC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit III Texts 9—12
IIIA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
9. Weather Catastrophe—Then and Now?
10. The Chimp-O-Mat
11. The Noisy World of the Skindiver
12. The Wisdom of Socrates
IIIB Learning about Reading Skills
IIIC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit IV Texts 13—16
IVA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
13. Telltale Trees
14. Six Months in Another World
15. The Strange Saga of Ivan the Terrible
16. Our Greatest Possession
IVB Learning about Reading Skills
IVC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit V Texts 17—20
VA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
17. Sweet Jubilee
18. On Being Translated into English
19. Organized Crime
20. Lady of the Wasteland
VB Learning about Reading Skills
VC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit VI Texts 21—24
VIA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
21. The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse
22. Ive Thumbed My Last Ride
23. The “ Upstart Crow”
24. The People Will Live on
VIB Learning about Reading Skills
VIC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit VII Texts 25—28
VIIA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
25. Needed: An International Language
26. Jet-Age Smugglers
27. Is a Race of Robots Possible?
28. The Sun Also Rises
VIIB Learning about Reading Skills
VIIC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit VIII Texts 29—32
VIIIA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
29. Anatomy of a Martian
30. The Piece of String
31. Eskimos in Japan
32. Pygmalion
VIIIB Learning about Reading Skills
VIIIC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit IX Texts 33—36
IXA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
33. Conversation with a Chimpanzee
34. The Real Sherlock Holmes
35. Fact Catches up with Fiction
36. How to Mark a Book
IXB Learning about Reading Skills
IXC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Unit X Texts 37—40
XA Reading for Comprehension and Speed
37. Village Inventors
38. Killer Reef
39. For All Women
40. Samuel Johnson and His Works
XB Learning about Reading Skills
XC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed
Key to Exercises