This study examined the reading passages of the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) and middle school English textbooks in terms of their readability and lexical difficulty. The readability was measured by using Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index, while their lexical difficulty was measured in terms of STTR (standardized type-token ratio), frequency of tokens per type, and vocabulary frequency levels by using VocabProfile and Oxford WordSmith Tools 7.0. The results showed that there was a gap between the readability of the English textbooks and that of the NAEA conducted from 2012 to 2014, while the readability between the English textbooks and that of the 2015 NAEA reached a comparable level. However, the textbooks from one publisher showed substantively lower readability than those from the other publishers and the NAEA. Secondly, regarding vocabulary frequency levels, the words in 1K and 2K accounted for more than 90% of the textbooks and the NAEA, while the NAEA had a higher STTR and lower frequency of tokens per type than the textbooks. It suggests that the NAEA employed more various words with less repetition than the textbooks. Pedagogical implications are discussed.

울릉도와 독도 근해 해수의 이화학적 특성과 광합성 색소의 변화를 5월, 6월, 8월과 11월에 울릉도 5개 정점, 6월, 8월과 11월에 독도의 3개 정점에서 계절별로 조사하였다. 수온은 수심에 따른 변화가 적었으며, 8월에는 수온 약층의 형성이 두드러졌고, 특징적으로 울릉도에서 11월의 표층수온(20.5℃)이 기상의 기온(9.9℃)보다 높게 나타났다. 이러한 계절적 변화는 염분에서도 나타났으며, 5월에는 저온 고염