Intended for students taking the English 30 Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in Alberta, Canada, this test (to be administered along with a questions booklet) contains the reading selections portion of Part B, the reading component of the June 1988 tests. Representing the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, the 10 selections consist of: "Untying the Knot" (Annie Dillard); "Water" (Robert Lowell); "A Field of Wheat" (Sinclair Ross); "A Knife to Thy Throat" (Edwin Procunier); "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (William Shakespeare); "Portrait of a Machine" (Louis Untermeyer); "The Democracy of Angling" (George F. Will); "Mother and Daughter" (Hannah Main); "Reunion" (Guy Vanderhaeghe); and an excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Duration of the examination is 2 hours. (MM)