Mosaic-2 A Reading Skills Book

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MOSAIC II
A Reading Skills Book
Brenda Wegmann
Miki Prijic Knezevic
Marilyn Bernstein
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RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
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Wegmann, Brenda, 1941-
Mosaic II, an intermediate reader.
"Developed for Random House by Eirik B0rve, Inc."
1. English language—Text-books for foreign speakers.
2. Readers-1950- . I. Knezevic, Miki, 1941- .
II. Bernstein, Marilyn. III. Eirik B0rve, Inc.
IV. Title. V. Title: Mosaic two, an intermediate reader.
PE1128.W392 1985 428.6'4 85-696
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter 1 5-7 Jamake Highwater, 'Native Americans" in Meg Schwarz, TV. and Teens, ©1982,
Addison-Weslcy, Reading, Massachusetts, pgs. 96, 97 and 98. Reprinted with permission. 12-14
William Echikson, "In France You Must Pass "le bac" or Leave the Elite," The Christian Science
Monitor, June 22, 1983. 19-21 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Think on These Things. Abridged from pp.
89-91. Copyright © 1964 by K & R Foundation. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row
Publishers, Inc.
Chapter 2 33-37 L. P. Hartley, "A High Dive" in The Complete Short Stories of L. P. Hartley,
Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Copyright © 1973 The Executors of the Estate of L. P. Hartley. "A High
Dive" originally appeared in Two for the River. 42-44 Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf. Copyright
© 1963 Farley Mowat. Used by permission of the Canadian Publisher, McClelland and Stewart
Limited, Toronto.
Chapter 3 51-55 Urban Lchner, "For Better or for Worse, Arranged Marriages Still Thrive in
Japan," The Wall Street Journal July 29, 1983. Reprinted by permission of The Wall Street
Journal. © Dow Jones Company, Inc., 1983. All rights reserved. 60-63 Signe Hammer,
"Anatomy of a Difference" reprinted by permission of the author. (This article first appeared in
Health, July, 1983.) 69-70 Judy Syfers, "I Want a Wife." Reprinted by permission of the author.
Chapter 4 77 From Money Should Be Fun by William Hamilton. Copyright © 1980 by William
Hamilton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Miillin Company. 77-80 Richard Blodgett,
"Against All Odds." Reprinted from GAMES Magazine (515 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y.
10022). Copyright © 1983 PEL 86-91 Frank Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?" in The Best Short
Stories of Frank R. Stockton, Charles Scribner & Sons, 1957.94-96 Raymond Chang and Margaret
Scrogin Chang. It All Started With Dragon Bones, W. W. Norton Co., Inc., 1978 and Andre Deutsch,
Ltd.
Chapter 5 103-106 Gail Sheeny, Passages. E. P. Dutton. 110-112 From Among the Believers, by
V. S. Naipaul. Copyright © 1981 by V. S. Naipaul. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc. 116-117 Excerpt from "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening" from Mauve
Gloves & Madmen, Clutter <& Vine by Tom Wolfe. Copyright © 1976 by Tom Wolfe. Reprinted by
permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ine., and International Creative Management, Inc.
120-123 Excerpt from "Human Waves" by Leon Bouvier. With permission from Natural His-
tory, Vol. 92, No. 8; Copyright the American Musuem of Natural History, 1983.
Chapter 6 131-139 Stephen Singular, "A Memory for All Seasonings." Reprinted from PSY-
CHOLOGY TODAY MAGAZINE. Copyright © 1982 American Psychological Association.
142-146 Excerpt from The Mind of Man by Nigel Calder. Copyright © 1970 by Nigel Calder.
Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc. 159-160 Geoff Simons, Are Computers Alive?,
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The Harvester Press Ltd., Brighton, Sussex, England.
Chapter 7 166-170 From Economics: Principles and Applications by David W. Rasmussen and
Charles T. Haworth. © 1979, Science Research Associates, Inc., 1983. All rights reserved. 180 ©
Quick 1967. 184 Cartoon by Ray Broderack. 184-186 Ralph Z. Sorenson, "A Lifetime of Learn-
ing to Manage Effectively," The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 1983. Reprinted by permis-
sion of The Wall Street Journal. © Dow Jones Company, Inc., 1983. All rights reserved.
Chapter 8 194-198 "Doctor's Dilemma: Treat or Let Die?" Excerpted from U.S. News & World
Report issue of December 6, 1982. Copyright, 1982, U.S. News & World Report, Inc. 203-205
James Wooten, "Memorial Day at Arlington: Our Only Son," in Assignment America, Gene
Roberts and David Jones, Eds. Reprinted by permission of Times Books, a Division of Random
House, Inc. 210-212 John A. Ritler, You Be the Judge. Reprinted by permission of Price/
Stern/Sloan Publishers, Inc., Los Angeles. 214-215 Excerpt from Extinction: The Causes and
Consequences of the Disappearance of Species by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Reprinted by per-
mission of Random House, Inc. 217 Reprinted by permission of New Internationalist, 175
Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 2K3. (The New Internationalist is a magazine
aimed at giving an understandable introduction for those interested in the problems of world
poverty.)
Chapter 9 222-224 "The Man Who Was an Orchestra" from Jazz Is, by Nat Hentoff. Copyright
© 1976 by Nat Hentoff. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Ine. 237-238 Leroy Quin-
tana, "Grandma's Primo" and "A Fairy Tale," in El Camino de la Cruz, Victor Guerra, Ed.,
Austin, Texas: Tejidos Publications. 238-239 Wilfredo Q. Castana, "To People Who Pick Food."
Chapter 10 246-249 Sana Siwolop, '•Sowing the Seeds of Super Plants." © DISCOVER Maga-
zine 1983, Time Inc. 253 The Associated Press. 260-262 Excerpt from "Tidal Power," by Kevin
Finneran from The Cousteau Almanac by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Copyright © 1980 by the
Cousteau Society, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. 254-256 "Water
Shortage Is Global Threat" in Wisconsin State Journal, July 11,1983.267-268 Adapted from The
First Three Minutes by Steven Welnberg. © 1977 by Steven Weinberg. Reprinted by permission
of Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.
Chapter 11 273-277 Jack Fincher, "New Machines May Soon Replace the Black Bag." First
published in Smithsonian, January 1984. 280 Amy Azen, "Cancer Therapy." Reprinted by per-
mission of the author. 282-284 Barbara Gullahorn-Holeek, "Best of Both Worlds," from WGBH,
Educational Foundation, NOVA, Adventures in Science, © 1983, Addison-Wesley, Reading,
Massachusetts. Pgs. 134 & 135. Reprinted with permission. 288-291 Great Ages of Man/Early
Islam by Desmond Stewart and The Editors of Time-Life Books. Time-Life Books Inc., Pub-
lisher. © 1968 Time, Inc. 295 Sharan Begley, "Cyclosporine: The Breakthrough Drug," News-
week, August 29, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by
permission.
Chapter 12 299-301 Marvin Cetron and Thomas O'Toolc, Encounters with the Future, © 1982
McGraw-Hill Book Company. Reprinted bv permission of the publisher. 305-309 Excerpted
from Omni Future Almanac, Robert Weil, Ed., Harmony Books. © 1982, Omni Publications Int.,
Ltd., published by World Almanac Publications, New York, N.Y. 10166. 312-316 "Acrosanti: A
City in the Image of Man" by Jared Rutter, Mankind Magazine March 1983 ©. 319 Alan Bloch,
"Men Are Different." 321-323 Excerpted from Neil Frude, The Intimate Machine, Copyright C
1983 by Neil Frude. Reprinted by permission of New American Library. All rights reserved.
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CHAPTER 1
LANGUAGE AND LEARNING 1
Selection One:
Native Americans, Jamake Highwater 2
Selection Two:
In France You Must Pass "le bac" . . .
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Selection Three:
Think on These Things (Selections), Krishnamurti 19
CHAPTER 2
DANGER AND DARING 25
Selection One:
Adventurers of the Eighties 26
Selection Two:
A High Dive, L. P. Hartley 32
Selection Three:
The World We Lost, Farley Mowat 40
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 3
MAN AND WOMAN
49
Selection One:
For Better or Worse, Arranged Marriages
Still Thrive in Japan, Urban C. Lehner 50
Selection Two:
The Sexes: Anatomy of a Difference, Signe Hammer 57
Selection Three:
I Want a Wife, Judy Syfers 67
Selection Four:
Oh, When I Was in Love with You, A. E. Housman 72
CHAPTER 4
MYSTERIES PAST AND PRESENT 75
Selection One:
Against All Odds, Richard Blodgctt 76
Selection Two:
The Lady or the Tiger?, Frank R. Stockton 84
Selection Three:
It All Started with Dragon Bones,
Raymond Chang and Margaret Scrogin Chang 93
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CHAPTER 5
TRANSITIONS
101
Selection One:
Madness and Method, Gail Shcchy 102
Selection Two:
Conversations in Malaysia, V. S- Naipaul 108
Selection Three:
The Me Decade, Tom Wolfe 115
Selection Four:
Human Waves, Leon F. Bouvier 118
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CHAPTER 6
THE MIND 129
Selection One:
A Memory for All Seasonings, Stephen Singular 130
Selection Two:
Under the Skull, Nigel Calder 141
Selection Three:
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe 150
Timed Reading:
Are Computers Alive?, Geoff Simons 159
CHAPTER 7
WORKING 163
Selection One:
The Quality of Work in America,
David W. Rasmussen and Charles T. Haworth 164
Selection Two:
Employment Application Form 175
Selection Three:
A Lifetime of Learning to Manage Effectively,
Ralph Z. Sorenson 182
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CHAPTER 8
ETHICAL QUESTIONS 191
Selection One:
Doctor's Dilemma: Treat or Let Die?, Abigail Trafford 192
Selection Two:
Memorial Day at Arlington: "Our Only Son,"
James T. Wooten 202
Selection Three:
You Be the Judge, John A. Ritter 207
Timed Reading:
Extinction, Paul and Anne Ehrlich 214
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CONTENTS CHAPTER 9
THE ARTS 219
Selection One:
The Man Who Was an Orchestra, Nat Hentoff 220
Selection Two:
To Paint Is to Live: Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-, M. Prijic 227
Selection Three:
Chicano Poetry: The Voice of a Culture, Deana Fernandez 233
CHAPTER 10
ENERGY AND MATTER 243
Selection One:
Sowing the Seeds of Super Plants, Sana Siwolop 244
Selection Two:
Water Shortage Is Global Threat 252
Selection Three:
Tidal Power, Kevin Finneran 258
Timed Reading:
The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg 266
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CHAPTER 11
MEDICINE zn_
Selection One:
New Tools for Medical Diagnosis, Jack Fincher 272
Selection Two:
Cancer Therapy, Amy Azen 280
Selection Three:
Best of Both Worlds, Barbara Gullahorn-Holecck 281
Selection Four:
The Scientist-Philosophers, Desmond Stewart 287
Timed Reading:
Cyclosporine: The Breakthrough Drug, Sharan Begley 294
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CHAPTER 12
THE FUTURE 297
Selection One:
Encounters with the Future,
Marvin Cetron and Thomas O'Toole 298
Selection Two:
Omni Future Almanac 304
Selection Three:
Arcosanti: A City in the Image of Man, Jared Rutter 311
Selection Four:
Men Are Different, Alan Bloch 316
Timed Reading:
The Affectionate Machine, Neil Frude 319
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