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 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 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 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 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 10SmugglingIt is not unusual for a pet to be sent by air cargo from Colombia to New York, but last December's shipment of a 4-year-old she...
PASSAGE 12 The Barbie Dolls In the mid 1940’s, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures frames...
PASSAGE 16SleepWe all know that the normal human daily cycle of some 7-8 hours' sleep alternating with some 16-17 hours' wakefulness and that,...
PASSAGE 18Martin Luther King Jr.By the time the Montgomery Improvement Association chose the 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader, the hou...
PASSAGE 20Rockets in the SkyIf someone asked you, "What color is the sky?" I expect that you would answer, "Blue." I am afraid tha...