PASSAGE 6One-room Schools One-room schools are part of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for "the way ...
PASSAGE 2 New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people---not their clothes, ideas, or languages---has changed as much as wh...
PASSAGE 1TV Shows and Long Bus TripsLong bus rides are like televisions shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end---with commercials thrown i...
PASSAGE 7 The Cold Places ?The Arctic is a polar region. It surrounds the North Pole.Like Antarctica, the Arctic is a land of ice and snow. Antarctica...
PASSAGE 6 ComputersBefore the widespread use of computers, managers could not make full use of large amounts of valuable information about a company&#...
PASSAGE 5 Dining CustomEvery land has its own dining custom, and the United States is no exception. Americans feel that the first rule of being a poli...
PASSAGE 4 The SeaWhat do you know about the sea? We know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. We also know that it can be very rou...
PASSAGE 3 Plants and MankindBotany, the study of pants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We don't know what our sto...
PASSAGE 2 DyslexiaAs many as 20% of all children in the United Stated suffer from some form of the learning disorder called dyslexia.Experts on dyslex...
TV Game ShowsOne of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the "best seller" lists with...