Chapter 1 of Crisis on Titan is here in full — 300 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Crisis on Titan is here in full — 300 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
What the devil! Was Captain Staley nuts? Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player! "Hut! Twuh, hree, foar.
Chapter 1 of Crisis on Titan is here in full — 300 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
expletives used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
temporary military shelter
From this reading “"Hut!”
plural of “inhabitant” — a person who inhabits a particular place
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading “Was Captain Staley nuts?”
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
From this reading “Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
expletives used informally as intensifiers
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading Was Captain Staley nuts?
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading What the devil!
the state or fact of existing
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Twuh, hree, foar.
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Twuh, hree, foar.
temporary military shelter
From this reading "Hut!
plural of “inhabitant” — a person who inhabits a particular place
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
not any; not one
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading Was Captain Staley nuts?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Was Captain Staley nuts?
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading What the devil!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Twuh, hree, foar.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Was Captain Staley nuts?
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Here they were ... no food, no water, about to be blasted out of existence by strange inhabitants of a weird planet--and Staley was making like a baseball player!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What the devil!
Chapter 1 of Crisis on Titan by James R. Adams holds 300 sentences, grouped into 60 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 300 sentences of Crisis on Titan, unabridged, divided into 60 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Crisis on Titan by James R. Adams exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 300 sentences, grouped into 60 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 60 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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