Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this reading test (to be administered along with the questions booklet) contains 10 short reading selections taken from fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, including the following: "At the Age at Which Mozart Was Dead Already" (Ellen Goodman); "Embassy" (W. H. Auden); an excerpt from "Julia" (Lillian Hellman); "Girl and Horse, l928" (Margaret Atwood); an excerpt from "Antony and Cleopatra" (William Shakespeare); "That Yellow Prairie Sky" (Robert Kroetsch); "Three Cheers for the Snail Darter" (James L. Buckley); "David" (Josephine Miles); "Springtime" (Claire Martin); and "Marrying Absurd" (Joan Didion). (EL)