EXERCISES
Reading edition
Page
1. Reported Speech 10
2. George Oakes 13
3. The Cobra 15
4. The Two Lieutenants 19
5. The Black Republic 23
6. The Professor and the Monkeys 27
7. The Island 31
8. A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial 35
9. The Miser 39
10. The Boy Scouts 43
11. Child Labourers in 1836 47
12. The Museum, 300 B.C. 51
13. The Warning 55
14. Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days 59
15. The Hut-Tax 63
16. The Mandarin 69
17. Isaac Newton 73
18. The Battle of the Nile 77