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: "My Magical Metronome" (Lewis Thomas); "Queen Street Trolley" (Dale Zieroth); an excerpt from "The Tragedy of Richard the Third" (William Shakespeare); an excerpt from "Memoir: A Play" (John Murrell); an excerpt from "To See You Again" (Alice Adams); "Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws" (William Shakespeare); "Natural Complements" (K.C. Cole); "Insouciance" (John W. Dickson); "What You See is the Real You" (Willard Gaylin); and an excerpt from "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" (Brian Moore). (SRT)