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PART ONE: READING SKILLS. 1. Study Skills. 2. Context Clues. 3. Structural Analysis. 4. Dictionary Skills. 5. Main Ideas. 6. Details. 7. Signal Words. 8. Organizational Patterns. 9. Purpose And Tone.10. Inferences.11. Critical Reading.12. Graphics.13. Rate.PART TWO: READING IN THE CONTENT AREA.14. Literature.15. History.16. Psychology.17. Biology.18. Computer Science And Data Processing.19. Business.PART THREE: READING SELECTIONS.Selection One: "Evolution of a Flag" by Allyson Patton.Selection Two: "Are We Tolerating More Dishonesty?" by Barbara Zigli.Selection Three: "I'm Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge" by Adrienne Popper.Selection Four: "Statue of Liberty National Monument."Selection Five: "Hard Times" by Norman Strung.Selection Six: "The Open Window" by Saki (H. Munro).Selection Seven: "In the Blink of an Eye" by Shawna Vogel.Selection Eight: "The Chaser" by John Collier.Selection Nine: "They Dared Cocaine and Lost" Henry Hurt.Selection Ten: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Edgar V. Roberts.Selection Eleven: "One Good Turn" by Witold Rybezynski.Selection Twelve: "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.Selection Thirteen: "The Chrysanthemums" by Jon Steinbeck.Selection Fourteen: "The Attic of the Brain" by Lewis Thomas.Selection Fifteen: "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.Index.