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Reading Comprehension
Volume 5, Number 10, November 8, 1999
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Read the selection without stopping to choose the correct missing words. Then read it again, pausing to underline the correct words. Finally, read the selection again to see if it makes sense.
I
shouldn’t let it bother me. It really doesn’t
matter anyway. But it does bother me! All those people are preparing to
celebrate a new century, a new millennium as well. And it just
isn’t __1__!
Most
of us schedule our lives by the Gregorian __2__. Our years are measured
from the birth of Christ. The first year of the first century is 1, or
1 A.D. The last year of that century is the year 100. Simple? Yes! A
century is 100 __3__ long. A millennium is 1,000 years long, which is
__4__ ten centuries.
Since
the last year of the first century is the year 100, the first year of
the __5__ century is 101. Follow that pattern, century by century and
you’ll get my __6__. The year 2000 is the last year of the
twentieth century. After all, __7__ thousand means twenty hundreds.
Twenty hundred years means twenty centuries. The year 2000 is the last
, the final, the one that’s still here, year of the twentieth
century!!!!
I
know, I’m getting too __8__. But it isn’t fair.
While most people will really be enjoying this coming __9__
celebration, those of us in the know will be yawning. We'll be wet
blankets at the party. Everyone else will be cheering for the new
millennium and we’ll be saying, “It’s not
until next year.”
I
don’t agree with the saying, “Ignorance is
bliss.” But in this case, perhaps it’s __10__.
1. | wrong | so | important | chocolate |
2. | chant | journal | program | calendar |
3. | hours | days | months | years |
4. | exactly | never | sometimes | often |
5. | first | second | third | fourth |
6. | dinner | point | joke | soda |
7. | a | seven | two | which |
8. | hungry | handsome | inaccurate | excited |
9. | Thanksgiving | Christmas | New Year's | weekend |
10. | silly | false | funny | true |
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