PASSAGE 9Preserving Nature for Future ?Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in ...
PASSAGE 8New York - The Melting PotRecently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of the city. In 1970, ...
PASSAGE 7David Jones and His SalaryComputer programmer David Jones earns ￡35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepar...
PASSAGE 6One-room SchoolsOne-room schools are part of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for "the way t...
PASSAGE 5The Greatest Show on EarthThe Olympic Game's are the greatest festival of sport in the world. Every four years, a hundred or more countri...
PASSAGE 4"Lemons" in Used Car MarketSuppose that you, a college student of somewhat limited means, are in the market for a used pickup truck...
PASSAGE 3A Football ClubDuring the 1970 season, the club played 42 matches: of these, 34 were League and Cup games, and the remainder were friendly ma...
PASSAGE 2New Foods and the New WorldIn the last 500 years, nothing about people---not their clothes, ideas, or languages---has changed as much as what...
PASSAGE 1TV Shows and Long Bus Trips ?Long bus rides are like televisions shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end---with commercials thrown...
15 The steadily rising cost of labor on the waterfront has greatly increased the cost of shipping cargo by water. A gradually B suddenly C excessively...