.  This progress report covers the period from November 0, 0000 to April 00, 0000. During that period, TEXT was operated as a circular tokamak with a material limiter. It was devoted to the study of basic plasma physics, in particular to study of fluctuations, turbulence, and transport. The purpose is to operate and maintain TEXT Upgrade as a complete facility for applied tokamak physics, specifically to conduct a research program under the following main headings: (0) to elucidate the mechanisms of working gas, impurity, and thermal transport in tokamaks, in particular to understand the role of turbulence; (0) to study physics of the edge plasma, in particular the turbulence; (0) to study the physics or resonant magnetic fields (ergodic magnetic divertors, intra island pumping); and (0) to study the physics of electron cyclotron heating (ECRH). Results of studies in each of these areas are reported.  