Intended for students taking Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in English 33 in Alberta, Canada, this reading test is designed to be administered with a questions booklet. The following short selections taken from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and day-to-day functional materials are included: (1) "Interpreter" (Gary Hyland); (2) an excerpt from "Sibir" (Farley Mowat); (3) "Indian Fighter" (Richard Erno); (4) an excerpt from "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" (Bertolt Brecht); (5) several materials which the student is required to evaluate, including a journal entry, an instructor's reply, an excerpt from a textbook, a pamphlet, an excerpt from "The Professional Photographer's Journal," a letter to the editor, a time table, and a list of social activities; (6) a student's composition in first draft form; (7) "The Dumb Look" (Dorothy O'Connell); (8) "Incident of the Coast" (Wilbert Snow); and (9) "How I Learned to Make Bread" (as reported to Barry Broadfoot). (JD)