Intended for students taking the Grade 9 English Language Arts Achievement Test in Alberta, Canada, this reading test (to be administered along with the questions booklet) contains eight short reading selections taken from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the following: "Thieving Raffles" (Eric Nicol); "Flight of the Roller Coaster" (Raymond Souster); "The Buyer" (Gilles Vigneault); an excerpt from "The Mystique of Mars" (Dennis Overbye); "Elephants" (Patrick Lane); an excerpt from "A Doctor in the West" (William Morrison Gibson); "Winter Uplands" (Archibald Lampman); and "The Dinner Party" (Mona Gardner). (SRT)