Episode 24

I. True or false

1. Some of the concepts were logical.

2. Ideas were exchanged pleasantly.

3. Discussion turned to the problems of air pollution.

4. Everyone was concerned about the effect of unemployment on the economy.

5. Dave Whitmore knew about national and international economic trends.

6. Most of the people disagreed with Dave's plans.

7. Dave plans to run for president.

II. QUICK REVIEW: Write the words that best complete the sentence.

1. The discussion was ____________________ and the opinions expressed were ____________________ and logical in the ____________________ they presented.

2. Everyone expressed deep concern over the ____________________ in the stock market, the rising ____________________ of goods and services, the ____________________ in purchasing power, and the effect of ____________________ unemployment upon the ____________________.

3. He had long made a ____________________ of such matters since, as a stock ____________________, he was involved in the ____________________ of economic trends both ____________________ and internationally.

4. Nearly ____________________ agreed that some of his ____________________ for economic ____________________ were much more ____________________ than those that were currently in ____________________.

III. CLOSE ATTENTION: Write the word that immediately precedes or follows the words below to fill in the blanks.

1. recent political ____________________

2. excited or ____________________

3. ____________________ front

4. ways to ____________________

5. as well as ____________________

6. ____________________ jokingly

7. ____________________ has come

IV. RECALL: Answer the following questions based on what you remember.

1. What was discussed first after dinner?

2. What was everyone concerned about?

3. Why was Dave Whitmore an expert about economic trends?

4. How did most of the people react to Whitmore's plans?

Episode 25

I. True or false

1. Sally kept thinking about events from the preceding day.

2. She finally put the worries out of her mind.

3. All her anxiety went away.

4. She needed to make some sort of decision.

5. Her thoughts were preventing her from sleeping.

6. She finally began to count sheep.

7. She had pleasant memories of her childhood.

8. She decided to get up and watch television.

II. QUICK REVIEW: Write the words that best complete the sentence.

1. Her mind kept ____________________ over some of the ____________________ of the preceding day that had ____________________ her so.

2. She knew that the constantly ____________________ thoughts that seemed to thunder through her ____________________ were the cause of her ____________________.

3. She wondered, too, why so often ____________________ brought a flood of ____________________ and unsettling thoughts which were so difficult to ____________________ and put to ____________________.

4. She turned her ____________________ to pleasant ____________________ of her childhood and was more ____________________.

5. I might as well get up and ____________________ for awhile because it looks as if ____________________ not going to get any ____________________ tonight.

III. CLOSE ATTENTION: Write the word that immediately precedes or follows the words below to fill in the blanks.

1. seemed interminably ____________________

2. ____________________ of the night

3. ____________________ out of her ____________________

4. to grow and ____________________

5. ____________________ matters

6. could be at ____________________

7. old folk ____________________

8. ____________________ up any

9. ____________________ of her mind

10. ____________________ on the table.

IV. RECALL: Answer the following questions based on what you remember.

1. Why did the night seem long to Sally?

2. Why was her anxiety increasing?

3. What caused her sleeplessness?

4. What old folk custom did she remember?

5. What time was it?

6. What did she finally decide to do?