SHADE RIEAOINIG FOWER Pato Ce aC AUT KS CTS) 11 Vocabulary Building ° Thinking Skills BEATRICE S. MIKULECKY / LINDA JEFFRIEBASIC READING POWER Pleasure Reading ° Comprehension Shells Vscabikany Building ¢ Thinking Skills Beatrice S. Mikulecky / Linda Jeffries LONGMANAcknowledgments Our thanks to the many people who gave us valuable feedback on Basic Reading Power: Elizabeth Schmid, Orlando, Fla., Charlotte Seeley, Newton, Mass., and Sandra Sklarew, Reston, Va., who reviewed and piloted parts of the text; Masako Kirihara, Osaka, Japan, Jane Stevenson, Modena, Italy, and Letizia Senni, Bologna, Italy, who reviewed parts of the text and made useful comments; Allen Ascher, senior acquisitions editor, and Christine Cervoni, production editor, at Addison Wesley Longman; and Kathy Sands- Boehmer, developmental editor, who deserves extra praise for working with us on all of our books. Basic Reading Power Copyright © 1997 by Addison Wesley Longman, All rights reserved. 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ISBN: 0-201-84673-X $6789 10—CRS—00 99Lea Cf bw Introduction Part One: Pleasure Reading 1 Unit 1: Fables 4 Unit 2: Stories 19 Unit 3: Reading Books for Pleasure 36 Part Two: Comprehension Skills 41 Unit anning for Key Words 42 Unit 2: Scanning for Information 48 Unit 3: Making Inferences 56 Unit 4: Looking for Topics 64 Unit 5: Understanding and Building Sentences 75 Unit 6: Understanding Paragraphs 86 Part Three: Vocabulary Building 99 Unit 1: New Words from Your Reading 100 Unit 2: The 100 Words 104 Unit 3: Learning about Context 112 Unit 4: Guessing Word Meanings 117 Unit 5: Learning New Words in Categories 121 Part Four: Thinking Skills 129 Guidelines for Thinking Skills Exercises. 130 Answer Key 149 Teacher's Guide 157eure reer ae Dear Student: Basic Reading Power can help you read well in English. In this book, you can work on reading in four ways: 1. Pleasure Reading Read many stories and books. 2. Comprehension Skills Understand what you read. 3. Vocabulary Building Learn many new words. 4. Thinking Skills Learn to think in English. Work on all four parts of the book every week. This way you can learn to be a good reader! Yours truly, moe gee a ipo Beatrice Mikulecky and Linda JeffriesIntroduction Questionnaire > Answer the questions. Then talk to other students about your answers. 1. What is your name? 2. Where do you live? What country do you come from? What is your first language? Do you like to read? ee Do your parents or friends like to read? Nae ee . What do you like to read? books magazines newspapers other 8. What do you read every day? __ books ____ magazines newspapers ___ other 9. How many books do you read in one year? 10. What book do you like a lot? Vocabulary in Basic Reading Power = This exercise gives you some new words. These words are In the exercises in this book. Read the sentences. Can you do what they say? 1. Draw a circle around the last word in this sentence. 2. There is a picture of a house below these sentences on the next page. Draw a circle around the house. 3. A word is missing from this ___. Write in the word. 4, There are two blanks in the next sentence. Think of some words. Write them in the blanks. 5. My ____ goes to __every day. 6. Draw a line from number 6 to number 1.Introduction 7. One word in this snetnece is not correct. Write that word correctly in the blank. 8. Cross out the first word in this sentence. Then cross out the last word in this sentence. 9, Draw a garden near the house below. Follow the steps in number 10. 10. Step 1. Draw a tree. Step 2. Draw some flowers. Step 3. Draw some grass. o fi ay Which words are new for you? Write them here.Pleasure ReadingPleasure Reading Good readers read a lot of stories and books. They read for pleasure, not only for school or work. This part of the book is for pleasure reading. You are going to read and talk about many stories. You can learn to be a good reader in English. Sometimes stories have a lot of new words. Do you have to know all the words? No! Understanding a Story with Some New Words in It > = 1. Read the story. Then answer the questions. Magda is a student at Poznan University in Poland. She is 23 years old. She xxxxx in Mosina, It is a small xxxx near Poznan. Every day, Magda takes xxx train to the city. She goes xx her classes at the university. After her xxxxxxx, she studies with her friends. Sometimes, xxxx have dinner at a restaurant. Xxxx she takes the train home. She xxxxxxx all evening. She wants to be x doctor. She must study hard for xxxx years! a. Does Magda live in Poznan? b. Does she take the train to Poznan? c. Does she always go home for dinner? d. What is she studying? ___ > 2. Read the story. Then answer the questions. Gerald is a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is 20 years old. Xx is from a small xxxx in California. He can't xx home very often. Gerald xx studying Chinese. He wants xx go to China next xxxx. In China he can Jearn Xxxxxxx well. He can also xxxxx about the country. Some xxx, Gerald wants to work xx business. He wants to xxx and sell things in Xxxxx. But first he must xxxxx how to speak Chinese. a. Where is Gerald from? b. Does he go home every weekend? _ c. Can he speak Chinese? d. Does he want to teach Chinese? __Pleasure Reading Reading to Understand Stories Good readers think and ask questions when they read. Follow these steps with the story on the next page. Step 1. Think before you read. Look at any pictures. Read the title of the story. Can you answer any of these questions? What is the story about? Who is in the story? Where are they? Step 2. Read the story. Do you have to know all the words? NO! You can understand the story without all the words. Don’t ask the teacher or other students about new words. Read to the end of the story. Step 3. Talk about the story. When you finish, talk about the story with another student. What is the story about? Who is in the story? Where are they? Do you like the story? Why? Step 4. Learn new words. Now look at the story again. Find some new words. Write the new words on the lines under the story. Make a vocabulary list. (See pages 100-103.){Le ad Fables The stories in this unit are fables. Fables are short stories about people or animals. They are not true stories, but they give a lesson about life. Every country has its fables Fable 1Pleasure Reading Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 10 1s The Big Family in the Little House Vladimir does not know what to do. He has a big family. And he lives in a little house. He is not very happy. One day he goes to town. He talks to a wise woman. “Please help me,” he says. “My wife and I have six children. We live in a very little house. Eight people in a few rooms! We cannot live this way!” ‘The wise woman listens. She closes her eyes for a minute. Then she asks, “How many animals do you have?” “We have eight animals. We have a horse, a cow, two pigs, and four chickens,” says Vladimir. “Good. Go home now,” says the wise woman. “Take all your animals into the house with you.” “Our animals!” says Vladimir. He goes home and does what the wise woman tells him. The next week, he goes back to the wise woman. “This is very bad!” he says. “The animals eat our food. They fill all the rooms. They sleep in our beds.” ‘The wise woman closes her eyes again. Then she tells Vladimir, “Now go home. Take the animals out of the house.” Vladimir goes home. He takes the animals out of the house. The next day, he goes back to the wise woman. This time he is happy. “Thank you, thank you,” he says. “It’s very different without the animals. Now we can eat. Now we can sleep. Now we like our house. Thank you for your help. You are a very wise woman!” Tg ee Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here.Pleasure Reading Fable 2 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 10 20 2s That's Not the Way to Do It! Hans wants to sell his horse. He goes down the road to town. He and his young son are walking with the horse. There are some boys near the road. “That's not the way to do it!” says a boy. “Why is that man walking? He has a horse!” “He's right,” says Hans. He gets on the horse. The son walks behind him. Then they see some women. “Look at that man!” says a woman. “He is on the horse. And his poor boy must walk.” “She's right,” says Hans. He gets off and he puts his son on the horse. They walk some more. “Isn't that terrible!” says an old man. “Young people have no love for their parents! Look at that boy on the horse. His poor father is walking.” “He's right,” says Hans. He gets on the horse behind his son. Then they see some girls. “Two people on a horse!” say the girls. “The poor animal.” “They're right,” says Hans. He and his son get off the horse. ‘They take the horse in their arms. They carry him down the road. The horse is big and he almost falls. They come to a river with a bridge. Some people are on the bridge. “Look at that!” they say. “Look at the horse!” They laugh and laugh. The horse does not like this. He moves here and there. He wants to run away. “Help, help,” cries Hans. And then they all fall off the bridge and into the river—the horse, Hans, and his son. “Next time,” says Hans, “I am not going to listen to other people. I am going to do it my way.” Wm Step 3, Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4, Write new words here.Pleasure Reading Fable 3 Step 4. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. eee The Wolf and the Dog A wolf is looking for food. He is very hungry. One evening, he sees some chickens in a yard. He wants to eat those chickens. But there is a dog in the yard, too. The dog is very big and strong. The wolf does not want to fight the dog, but he is very, very hungry. He s waits near the yard. ‘The wolf sees a man come out of the house. The man gives some food to the dog. Then he goes back in the house. “Good evening,” the wolf calls to the dog. “Good evening,” answers the dog. He is eating his dinner. 0 The wolf says, “Do you get food every day?”Pleasure Reading 1s 2s as “Two times a day,” answers the dog. “I get breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening.” He eats some more. Then he looks at the wolf. “Are you hungry? Come live here with me. This is a good life. I help the man a little. At night I sleep near the chickens. No animals can get them.” The dog eats all his dinner and sits down. He says to the wolf, “You are always running and fighting. Your life is not easy. Come live here. Life is easy here.” The woff sits down near the dog. He thinks, “Why not? I can eat every day here, and I can have a friend.” But then he looks at the dog. “What is that under your ears?” he asks. “What?” says the dog. “Look at your neck! It is all red!” says the wolf. “Oh, that is nothing,” says the dog. “Nothing!” says the wolf. “It is terrible!” “No, no,” says the dog. “It is the chain. In the day, the farmer puts a chain on my neck.” “A chain!” says the wolf. “So you can’t run. You must stay there by the house all day!” “Yes,” answers the dog. “Then no, thank you, my friend. I cannot stay here with you. Ido not want a chain on my neck. | am going back to my old life. Good-bye!” And the wolf runs away, still hungry. eee | Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here.Pleasu Reading Fable 4 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 1s 20 A Bell on the Cat A large family of mice live in a store. There is always food in the store. Another family of mice comes to the store. Soon there are lots and lots of mice in the store. ‘The storekeeper is not happy about this. He says, “There are too many mice here!” So one day he goes out. He gets a big, black cat. It is hungry and it likes to eat mice. The mice do not know what to do. “What can we do?” says a mother mouse. “This cat is terrible. It is going to kill us all.” “We must talk to our president. He always knows what to do,” says another mouse. So they go to the president. “Mr. President,” they say, “the cat is going to kill us. We are afraid. What can we do?” The president is a big, old mouse. He says, “We must have a meeting. All the mice must come.” And so there is a meeting of all the mice. The president of the mice comes in and stands up. “My dear friends,” he says, “we are living in a bad time. A big, black cat is here in our store. This terrible animal wants to eat us all. But my friends, | know what to do. Your president always has the answer, We can put a bell on the cat. That way we can always hear it. And we can run away in time.” “Hurrah!” say all the mice. “Our president is very wise.” The mice are all happy. They are all talking about their president. “Isn't he a wise mouse?” they say. “Isn’t he a good president?” But then a young mouse speaks. “Mr. President,” she says, “I have a question.” “Yes,” says the president. “Please,” says the young mouse. “Who is going to put the bell on the cat?” “Not I! Not I!” say all the mice. Then they stop talking. They all go away. The next day, they move out of the store. MaaHFt ibd we 40 eh appa elitr tit eis et Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here.10 Pleasure Reading Fable 5 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 10 The Boy and the Wolf Kamal lives in a little village. Every day he goes out with his sheep. He stays with the sheep all day. In the evening he comes back to the village. One day, the boy thinks, “I do not like this! I am with the sheep all day. The sheep do not talk, and they do not listen to me. What can I do?” Kamal sits there for some time. Then he says, “I know!” And he cries, “Wolf! Wolf!” In a few minutes, people come running from the village. “Where is the wolf?” they ask. “Oh, there is no wolf,” says the boy. “I wanted to see you and talk to you.” The people are not happy. They go back to the village. “That bad boy!" they say. The next day, Kamal is with his sheep. Again, he does not want to be alone. He cries, “Wolf! Wolf!” Again, the people come from the village. This time, they are very angry. “You must not do that again!” they say. “Next time, we are not going to listen.” And they go back to their work. That same afternoon, Kamal is alone with his sheep. He is almost asleep. Then he hears something in the trees. He opens his eyes. It is a wolf. The wolf is coming to eat his sheep.“Help! Help!” cries Kamal. “There is a wolf!” The people in the village hear the boy, but this time they do not 2s come, So Kamal runs away, and the wolf kills and eats all the sheep. Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here. Fable 6 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. The Bear and the Two F One day, Dan and Jim walked down the road. “What a beautiful day!” said Dan. “Yes, this is a good day for a walk,” said Jim. “It is not raining, and it is not hot.” s So they talked and walked. They walked and talked. They came to a mountain with lots of trees. Then Jim stopped talking. There was a nds Mt72 Ploasure Reading 1s bear behind a tree. Jim said nothing to Dan. Ina minute, Jim was up in a tree. Then he called to his friend, “Oh Dan, there is a bear!” Dan did not have time to run. He did not have time to go up a tree. So he fell to the ground. He did not move. ‘The bear walked over to him and smelled him. He made noises in Dan's ear, Dan still did not move. After some time, the bear went away. Bears do not eat dead people or animals. Then Jim came down from the tree. “Sorry,” he said. “I wanted to tell you about the bear. But first, I wanted to get up the tree.” Dan said nothing. He got up from the ground. “What did the bear say to you?” asked Jim. “He told me something very important,” said Dan. “Oh, what was that?” asked Jim. “He told me about good friends. Good friends do not run away. Good friends help their friends.” And Dan walked down the road alone. Di ee Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here. Fable 7Pleasure Reading Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 1s | Sinbad and the Genie One day, Sinbad the Sailor was by the sea. He sat down by the water. Somebody called to him. There was an old bottle near him. He looked at the bottle. In it, there was a very, very little person. It was a genie. “Help! Help!” said the genie. “Please let me out.” Sinbad opened the bottle. A big, gray cloud came out. In the cloud, there was a very, very big genie. “Thank you, Sailor. And now, I am going to eat you. My last meal was 5,000 years ago. I am very hungry.” The genie was very big and strong, and he had Sinbad in his hand. Sinbad was small and not very strong. But he was clever. He said to the genie, “How can you eat me—a little thing like you?” “Little?” said the genie, in a terrible way. “I am very big!” “How can you be very big?” asked Sinbad. “You were in this little bottle!” “| changed,” said the genie. “You can see that!” “No, no,” said Sinbad. “I see only a little bottle.” ‘The genie’s face was all red. He was very terrible to see. “I can change!” he said. “Look at me!” The genie went into his big, gray cloud. Then the cloud went away. The genie was little, and he was inside the bottle again. Sinbad put the top on the bottle. He put the bottle in the sea and walked away. “Good-bye for another 5,000 years!” Sinbad said. ie SE PUTT PTT ERECTA EY Te Ne SEN al Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here. 314 Pleasure Reading Fable 8 Step 4. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 10 2s The Strongest Person Mariko was a girl mouse, She loved Nazumi, a boy mouse. They wanted to marry. But Mariko’s parents said no. Mariko must marry the strongest person in the world. But who was the strongest person in the world? Her parents looked up at the sky. “The sun is the strongest person,” they said. They asked the sun, “Do you want to marry our daughter?” “Your daughter is very beautiful,” said the sun. “But I’m not the strongest person. The cloud is stronger. He can stop my light.” So Mariko’s parents called to the cloud. “Are you the strongest person?” they asked. The cloud answered, “No, no. I'm not the strongest person. The wind is stronger. I must go where he tells me.” “Oh, Wind,” said Mariko's parents. “What do you say? Are you very strong?” “Yes, yes,” said the wind. “I'm very strong. But a high wall can stop me.” The mice parents talked to a high wall. “Please, Wall, can you answer our question? We are looking for the strongest person in the world. Are you that person?” The wall said, “I'm very strong. But look at my feet. There are many holes. Nazumi, the mouse, made those holes.” Mariko’s parents looked at the holes. Then they went to look for Nazumi. “Nazumi,” they said, “you are the strongest person in the world! Do you want to marry our daughter?” “Yes,” said Nazumi. And so Mariko married Nazumi, and they were very happy. _ ——— ee Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here.Pleasure Reading Fable 9 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 0 15 2 25 The Turtle and the Ducks ¢ turtle was not very happy. “Here I am on the ground,” he said. “I cannot go fast. I always see the same things. I see only the ground and the grass. Poor, poor me.” Then the turtle looked up at the sky. “Look at those birds,” he said. “They go many places. They see many things. I want to be a bird. I want to fly, too.” Two ducks stopped near the turtle. “Oh, ducks,” asked the turtle. “What can I do? I want to go to far places. | want to see the world.” “{ think we can help you,” said the ducks. “Can you?” asked the turtle, “How?” “You can fly with us to Africa or to America, You can see mountains, oceans, and cities—all the things you want to see.” “But how can I fly?” asked the turtle. “With a stick,” said the ducks. “We can hold the stick in our mouths, And you must hold on with your mouth.” And that’s what they did. They went up in the air. They went many miles. The turtle saw many new things. He saw a city and lots of people. Some people on the ground looked up. “A turtle in the air!” they said. “Run, run to the queen. There is a flying turtle. She must see it.” The queen came out to see the turtle. “Where is it?” she asked. “Here! Can’t you see me?” called the turtle. But when he opened his mouth, he fell to the ground. And there, in front of the queen and all the people, he died. Care reenter Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4. Write new words here. isPleasure Reading Fable 10 Step 1. Think before you read. Step 2. Read the story. 0 16 The Fisherman and His Wife Once there was a fisherman. He and his wife lived in a little house. They were very poor. One day he went to the sea. He wanted to get some fish for dinner. For many hours, he got nothing. Then, in the evening, he got a big, fat fish. “Please don’t eat me!” said the fish. “Tell me what you want. I can give it to you.” The fisherman put the fish back into the sea. He went home and told his wife about the fish. She said, “Husband! | don't like this old house. Tell the fish I want a new house.” So the fisherman went back to the sea. He called to the fish, “Oh, fish! My wife wants a new house!” “Go home,” said the fish. “Your wife has a new house.” The fisherman went home. His wife was in a nice, new house. There were flowers in the yard, and she was very happy. But the next morning, she was not happy. She said to her husband, “This house is very small. I want a big house now. Go back to the fish and tell him.”20 2s 30 as Pleasure Reading So the fisherman went back to the sea. “Oh, fish!” he called. “My wife wants a big house now.” “Go home,” said the fish. “Your wife has a big house.” The fisherman went home. There was his wife in a very big and beautiful house. She was very happy. But the next morning she said, “A big house is nice. But it is not enough. I want to be a queen!” So the fisherman went back to the sea again. “Oh, fish!” he called, “My wife wants to be a queen now.” Go home,” said the fish. “Your wife is a queen.” The fisherman went home. His wife was now a queen. She had on a beautiful dress. “Now you can be happy,” said the fisherman to his wife. The next morning it rained. The fisherman’s wife said, “I don’t like the rain, Tell the fish. I want to stop the rain.” So the fisherman went back to the sea another time. “Oh, fish!” he called. “Help me! My wife is still not happy. She wants to stop the rain.” “Go home,” said the fish, “Your wife asks for too much! Now she has nothing.” The fisherman went home. His wife was in their old house again. And once again, they were very poor. | | Step 3. Talk about the story. What is the lesson? Step 4, Write new words here. 7petDeam eteaeare Sale URS AO” aoe ye take Strat mesrebetet eit e wet get ya fo snsau puiboli dem tag neo a ae angi eta Steril eee aeaitT aapest mere —- ford ate achervt werathgh¥A" hte = ca soar | aetna = wd the a hee hte tein ea “acim aos Mees “aren Wel oe © ted opti Eee teat wf, a ame smot oatmaakdn stare Tgtpyerl iat Dts Mow ares” cy eer Vso 1 fuse allies eaernaghell gen a : ctl rhe crite ets i verry opticave eset yale cseuput, Oily eebeel eae alte gt, Jameel torent eons 1 feed re read ees adc _ 7 rece Mit edn sos reuk ition ori MEY enceStories The stories in this unit are not fables. They are all about real people and places. Remember the Four Reading Steps _ © Think before you read. * Read the story. * Talk about the story. * Learn new words. Story 1 i... <> vind nA Ge A Very Special Party Amalya Antonovna lived in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was 75 years old, and she was alone. Her husband was dead. She had a son, Pavel, but maybe he was also dead, She last saw him in 1945. After that, she did not hear anymore about him. What happened in 1945? That was a time of war in Europe Pavel’s father was a soldier. He was Killed in the war in 1942. After that, Amalya was alone with her baby. Those were terrible times in Russia. There was very little food. The winter was very cold. The German army was in Russia. German soldiers killed many Russians. They sent many other Russians to Germany to work. Many of these people got sick and died. Amalya was a Russian worker in Germany. At the end of the war, she was still alive. Her baby was still alive, too. But Amalya was very sick, The English and American armies came to the town. Amalya asked some English soldiers for help. “Take my little boy,” she said. “| am very sick, but he must live.” 1920 Pleasure Reading 2s x0 So Pavel went to England. He went to live with an English family, the Corbetts. He was just two years old, Grace and George Corbett were very good to Pavel. He was a son for them. They gave him an English name—Paul. They never told him about his Russian mother. Paul Corbett married and had two children. When he was 45, Grace Corbett died. Then George Corbett told him about his Russian mother. Paul wanted to look for her. Maybe she was dead after all these years. But maybe not. He sent many letters to Russia. Several years passed. Then one day a letter came from St. Petersburg. Amalya was alive and well, and she wanted very much to see him, So Paul Corbett went with his family to St. Petersburg. Amalya had a big party. All her friends came to meet her son. ‘There was lots of good Russian food and music. Amalya did not speak any English. Paul and his family did not speak any Russian. But words were not important. They were all happy. a Story 2 18 20 |Z ER Christmas Gifts Christmas was a big day for John and Adele. They always had a very nice dinner. Then they opened their presents. Often the presents were small things. John and Adele did not have much money. But John always had something for Adele, and Adele always had something for John. It was the day before Christmas. But this year John and Adele still did not have any presents. They did not have any money for presents. “We are happy without them,” they said. But it was not true. John wanted to buy something for his wife. And Adele wanted to buy something for her husband. Adele went into town. She looked at the store windows. There were many beautiful things in the windows. In the window of a music store, she saw some cassettes. There was a new cassette by Pavarotti. John loved music, and he loved Pavarotti. Adele wanted to buy that cassette for John, but she did not have the money. Then she remembered her hair. Adele had very long, beautiful red hair. Her hairdresser wanted to cut it and buy it from her. Adele always said no. But now she went to the hairdresser and said yes. ‘Then she went back to the music store with the money, and she bought the Pavarotti cassette.20 0 Pleasure Reading When Adele came home, John was already there. “What do you think?” Adele asked him. “Do you like my new Christmas haircut?” “Oh no!” John said. “You don’t like it?” Adele said. “Why did you do that?” John asked. “| wanted to buy something for you,” said Adele. “So I sold my hair. Here is your present.” John opened the present. “Oh, Adele!” he said, “This is terrible!” “You mean you don't like the cassette?” asked Adele. “No, no. Thank you. It's a beautiful cassette,” said John, “But I don’t have a cassette player now. I needed money for your present, and my friend George needed a cassette player. So I sold the cassette player to him. Here’s your present.” ‘Adele opened a small box. In it there were two combs for her hair. They were very beautiful, but now her hair was very short. She couldn’t use combs! “1 can use them next year,” she said. “Thank you, my love.” “And someday soon I’m going to get another cassette player,” John said. He smiled. “You know, Adele, you're beautiful with short hair!” ee Story 3 SS The Telephone Call Camille was three years old, She lived in a small town in France. Her father worked far away in the city. Her mother worked in the house. One Saturday, Camille's mother fell down on the floor. Her eyes were closed. She did not move. Camille's father was home. He called the doctor on the telephone. The doctor came to help Camille's mother. In a few days, she was well. ‘Then one day she fell down again. This time, Camille's father was not home. There was only Camille. She looked at her mother on the floor, and she was afraid. She started to cry. Then she remembered the telephone. She went to the telephone. She did the same thing her father did. She pushed some numbers on the telephone. A man answered her call, He was Claude Armand, an engineer. His office was in the city. He did not know Camille. At first, he did not understand her. a22 Pleasure Reading 25 20 Camille said, “Mommy, Mommy!” “Where is your mother?” asked Claude Armand. “She's lying down,” said Camille. “She can’t get up.” Camille started to cry. Claude Armand wanted to help Camille. “Where do you live?” he asked. “Near my grandma,” she answered. She didn’t know her street or her town. She was only three! Then Claude Armand said to her, “Don’t put down the telephone. Talk to me some more. Tell me about your daddy. Where is he?” He asked her lots of questions. At the same time, a friend in his office called the telephone company. She told the telephone company about Camille's mother. She said they needed Camille's address. The telephone company told the police. The police told the government in Paris. Then the government said okay to the police. The police said okay to the telephone company. And the telephone company told them Camille’s address. All this time, Camille talked with Claude Armand. She told him about her house and her family. She told him about her grandparents, her friends, and her little cat. They talked for 45 minutes! ‘Then the police were at Camille's house with a doctor. They called to her and rang the doorbell. Camille said good-bye to 40 Claude Armand and went to open the door. Now she was not alone anymore, Now her mother was okay. pee eee Story 4 What's in the Back Seat? It was a cold day in Chicago. Laura Simon had no more milk in her refrigerator. She put the baby in the car, and she drove to the store, It was only ten minutes away. But in five minutes, the baby was asleep. Laura stopped in front of the store, She looked at the sleeping baby. She did not want to wake him up. But she also did not want him to get cold. There was a coat on the back seat. She put it over the baby. Then she went into the store. The car key was still in the car.Pleasure Reading ‘Todd Jenkins walked by. He saw the key in Laura Simon's car. He 10 was cold, and he did not want to walk. He got in the car and drove away. After five minutes, there was a noise in the car. What was that? Todd drove some more. Then he stopped. There was something in the car. He looked at the back seat and saw a coat. The noise came 1s from under the coat. He moved the coat, and there was a baby! Todd looked at the baby. The baby looked at him and smiled. “Daa Daa,” said the baby. “No, I'm not your daddy,” said Todd. He got out of the car and walked away. Then he looked back. The baby started to cry. Todd 2 went back to the car. The baby stopped crying and smiled again. “Daa Daa,” he said again. ‘Todd got back in the car and drove some more. The baby was happy. But after a few minutes, he started to cry again. “Waa waa,” —_—___ he said, 2 “What do you want?” asked Todd. “Waa waa,” said the baby. “Are you hungry?” asked Todd. The baby stopped crying. “{ don’t have any milk,” said Todd. “Now what can I do? He's a0 hungry!” Todd looked at the baby. The baby looked at Todd. “Waa waa!” said the baby again. “Okay, okay,” Todd said. He drove back to the store. Laura Simon was there. A policeman and policewoman were there, too. 4s Todd Jenkins got out of the car. “I think your baby is hungry,” he said to Laura Simon. “My poor baby!” said Laura Simon, and she ran to the car. “Never again!” said Todd Jenkins to the police, and they took him away. ne el Story 5 A Day Trip to Mexico Seattle is a city by the sea. There are lots of boats in Seattle. Some of the boats are fishing boats. Some boats go to far places. Some boats go to the San Juan Islands near by. a24 Pleasure Reading 10 6 2s 20 as Anthony Brewer lived in Seattle. He was sixteen, and he wanted to go away. It was the end of the school year, and it was hot. Anthony's friends were on the San Juan Islands. He wanted to go there, too. One morning, Anthony had an idea, He didn’t tell his parents about his idea. They were at work. He went down to the boats. He wanted to buy a ticket for the San Juan Islands. But he did not have very much money. He walked by the boats. It was early, and there were not many people. Then he walked onto a boat. There were some large boxes on the boat. He got into a box and closed it. There was a hole in the box. Anthony looked through the hole, and he saw some men come onto the boat. Then the boat started to move. Anthony saw the buildings of Seattle, and then he saw only the sea. It was a warm day. Anthony was happy in the box. The boat moved up and down a little. Soon he was asleep. He slept for two hours. Two hours! Why were they still at sea? The San Juan Islands were only an hour from Seattle. He looked out and saw only the sea all around. He listened to the people on the boat, but he could not understand them. Maybe this wasn’t the boat for the San Juan Islands! What boat was it? Where was it going? Anthony didn’t know what to do. He sat in the box all day. Night came and it was very cold in the box. He had no warm clothing, no food, and nothing to drink. Now he wanted to go home! The next morning, some men opened the box. They saw Anthony, and they pulled him out. Anthony was afraid. But the men smiled, and they gave him some food and some water. “Where is the boat going?” he asked. “To Mexico,” they answered. “Can you stop before that?” he asked. “I have to go home!” “No,” they said. “We can’t stop. But we can call your parents on the radio.” Ten days later, Anthony was in Mexico. He went to the Mexican police for help. They put him on a plane to Seattle. His parents came to get him at the airport. The airplane ticket cost them $500, but they were not angry. They were happy to see Anthony again. “| wanted to go away,” said Anthony, “but not to Mexico! I only wanted to go on a day trip.” ei et Pe 8 eePleasure Reading Story 6 » 25 20 =o Young Love In 1942, Italy was at war. Antonio was a soldier in the Italian army. He was in a small city in Tunisia. In this city, there was a hotel. The manager of the hotel was Italian, Antonio often went to the hotel. He was a friend of the manager and his family. He liked to talk with them about Italy and about the end of the war. The manager’s daughter, Sabrina, was 19. She was very beautiful. Antonio liked her very much and wanted to talk with her, but she did not like to talk to soldiers. So Antonio watched her and waited. Then, one day, she smiled at him. He smiled at her, and they started talking. They talked and talked. In a short time, they were in love, and they wanted to get married. But her parents said, “You can’t get married now because there is war. You must wait.” Soon the war was close to the city. One day, Antonio went to see Sabrina. He was very sad. “I must leave tomorrow with the army,” he said. “The British army is going to be here soon.” Sabrina cried and cried. Antonio cried, too, He was at the hotel with Sabrina and her family all night. He went away with the first light. Antonio and Sabrina stopped at the door for a last kiss. Then he walked away. At the end of the street, he looked back. Sabrina was still there at the door. The war did not go well for the Italian army. The British army took many Italian soldiers with them. Antonio was one of these soldiers. The English sent him to India. He was there for four years. Antonio sent many letters to Sabrina, but the letters all came back to him. Where was Sabrina? Was she still alive? He did not get any answers to his questions. Then, in 1946, Antonio went back to Italy. He went to work in Milan. He got married, and soon he had two children. One day, in 1961, he was in Rome, and he saw Sabrina in a store. He went into the store. At first, she was happy to see him, but then she cried. They went into a cafe and had some coffee. Sabrina now lived in Rome. She was married and had three children. She was happy with her life. “But,” she said, “I waited for many years. | waited for you.” It was time for Antonio to get his train back to Milan, They went out into the street and said good-bye. Antonio went back to his family in Milan, and Sabrina went back to her family in Rome. Antonio never saw Sabrina again. —__ Ee ee eee a26 Ploasure Reading Story 7 10 1s 2s 30 as ee Man's Best Friend Rudy was a large, brown dog. He was from Hamburg, Germany, but he was not at home very often. He was in a truck on the roads of Europe. Rudy did not drive the truck. His friend, Heinrich, was the driver. Rudy and Heinrich often lived in the truck for many days. ‘They stopped at restaurants for their meals. They had beds on the truck. On long drives, Heinrich did not want to fall asleep. So he talked to Rudy and Rudy listened. In Hamburg, they lived with Heinrich’s sister, Elena. At home, Heinrich and Rudy liked to sleep a lot. They also went for long walks, or they went to see Heinrich’s friends. Rudy always went with Heinrich. One evening, Rudy and Heinrich did not come home. In the morning, Elena called Heinrich’s friends. They did not know about Heinrich. Then there was a noise at the door. Elena opened the door, and there was Rudy. He was alone. He barked at her and wanted her to go out with him. Elena called the police. After some time, the police called her back. Heinrich was in the hospital. It was his heart. He was very sick. Elena went to the hospital to see her brother. His eyes were closed, and he did not talk. The doctor said Heinrich was not in danger anymore but was still very sick. The next day, Heinrich opened his eyes. He asked about Rudy. Poor Rudy. He was at home, waiting for Heinrich. He waited and waited by the door. He did not want to get up, and he did not want to eat. Elena called the animal doctor. The doctor looked at Rudy and said, “This dog is not sick. He's sad.” Elena told Heinrich about Rudy. Heinrich said, “Give Rudy my hat.” Elena went home with the hat. Rudy put his nose to the hat. He moved his tail. He ate some food and got up from the floor. But he did not move away from the door. The next day he stopped eating again. Then Elena went to Heinrich’s doctor. She told him about Rudy. “Can I bring Rudy to the hospital?” she asked. “No,” said the doctor. “No dogs in the hospital.” The doctor was sorry for Rudy. He talked to some other doctors. In the end, they said, “Okay. There's a little room near the hospital door. Rudy can meet Heinrich in that room.”40 Pleasure Reading Elena went to the hospital with Rudy. He was very thin, and he walked very slowly. But when he saw Heinrich, he jumped up and barked and barked. Heinrich was on a bed. He smiled and talked to Rudy. And after that, Rudy started to eat again. He started to run and play again. ee ee Story 8 1s 2» 25 20 A Man and Many Wolves Farley Mowat worked for the Canadian government. The government wanted to know more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou (big animals)? Do they kill people? The government told Farley to learn about wolves. They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to a far place. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals—and lots of wolves. People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories, and he was afraid. He had his gun with him all the time. ‘Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them. Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very good mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to get food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf played with the children. They were a nice, happy family—a wolf family! Farley did not need his gun anymore. In a short time, he and the wolf family were friends, Farley watched them for five months. He learned many new things about wolves. He learned that many stories about wolves were not true. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. What do they eat? Lots of small animals, Farley learned. For example, they eat lots and lots of mice. Can a large animal live on mice? Farley wanted to know. There was only one way to learn. He was a large animal, too—a large man. He must try to live on mice! So he did. He ate mice—and no other food—for two weeks. After that, he did not want any more mice! But he was not thin, and he 272s Pleasure Reading as “0 was not sick. Yes, a man can live on mice, so a wolf can, too. Now he could answer the government's questions about wolves. In that far place, Farley did not see many people. But he learned bad things about some men. These men told terrible stories about wolves. In the stories, wolves killed hundreds of caribou. But this was not true. Farley learned that the men Killed the caribou. They also killed many wolves. Farley Mowat never saw the wolf family again. But he wrote a book about them. He wanted people to understand wolves and to stop killing them. | Story 9 0 20 Ben and Jerry's Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were good friends in high school. They came from Merrick, New York. After college, they wanted to start a business. What kind of business? A food business, of course. Ben and Jerry were different in many ways, but in one way they were the same. They liked food! ‘One food they liked very much was ice cream. They wanted to open an ice-cream shop. Where was a good place for an ice-cream shop? They looked at many cities and towns. Then they went to Burlington, Vermont. They liked the city a lot. It had lots of young people, and it did not have any good ice-cream shops. There was only one problem with Burlington. For four months of the year, it was cold there. Did people buy ice cream on cold days? On May 5, 1978, Ben and Jerry opened their ice-cream shop. It was a smail shop, and it was not very beautiful. But the ice cream was very good. Lots of people came to eat ice cream on opening day. They came back again and again. There were always lots of people in the shop. Ben and Jerry worked very hard. One night after work, Ben was very tired. He went to sleep on the ground in front of the shop! After a few months, Ben and Jerry went to the bank. They had bad news. There were only a few doliars in their bank account. “Why is that?” they asked. “After all those months of hard work!” ‘Then they started to learn about business. They learned about costs and expenses. And they learned about marketing and sales. hey started to have big ice-cream parties. They gave free ice cream