Practice Reading Comprehension
Improve your English reading skills with engaging stories, articles, and passages. Answer comprehension questions and get instant feedback.
Why Practice Reading Comprehension?
Build Vocabulary
Expand your English vocabulary naturally by encountering new words in context. Reading exposes you to diverse expressions and phrases used in real situations.
Improve Understanding
Strengthen your ability to understand complex ideas, identify main points, and grasp subtle meanings in English texts through systematic practice.
Boost Test Scores
Prepare effectively for English proficiency tests like TOEFL, IELTS, and Cambridge exams with targeted reading comprehension practice.
Effective Reading Strategies
Preview Before Reading
Scan the title, headings, and first sentences to get an overview of the topic before diving into details.
Read Actively
Ask yourself questions while reading: What is the main idea? What details support it? How does this relate to previous information?
Identify Key Information
Look for topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusion statements. These help you understand the structure and main points.
Practice Regularly
Consistent daily reading builds comprehension skills automatically. Even 15 minutes per day makes a significant difference over time.
Master These Reading Skills
Scanning
Quickly locate specific information like dates, names, or facts in a passage.
Skimming
Get the general idea of a text by reading quickly to grasp main concepts.
Inference
Read between the lines to understand implied meanings and author's intentions.
Analysis
Break down complex passages to understand structure, arguments, and relationships.
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Designing Regenerative Networks for Future Neighborhoods
Trace how innovators, residents, and policymakers build interconnected solutions that cut pollution, expand recycling, and redesign everyday systems across six detailed case studies.
Clean Cycles for Tomorrow
Discover how neighborhoods reinvent waste systems, deploy new materials, and empower residents to shrink pollution footprints while expanding recycling access.
Pollution and Recycling: Restoring Our Cities
Explore how air, water, and waste pollution affect urban life, and examine the recycling innovations and community actions working to clean cities around the world.
Simón Bolívar: Liberator of the Andes
Journey with Simón Bolívar from his Caracas youth through daring Andean campaigns and the struggle to define lasting republics across northern South America.
Wu Zetian: Mandate of the Tang
Follow Wu Zetian’s ascent from a palace attendant to emperor of the Zhou dynasty, examining how she wielded scholarship, alliances, and reform to shape eighth-century China.
Harriet Tubman: Conductor of Freedom
Trace Harriet Tubman’s transformation from an enslaved child on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a fearless Underground Railroad guide, Civil War scout, and lifelong advocate for equality.
Mahatma Gandhi: Path of Nonviolence
Follow Mohandas K. Gandhi from his studies in London to civil rights campaigns in South Africa and leadership of India’s independence movement, tracing how nonviolent resistance reshaped global politics.
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Vision
Trace Leonardo da Vinci’s journey from apprentice painter in Florence to court engineer in Milan and royal artist in France, exploring how his curiosity bridged art, science, and invention.
Marie Curie: Science in Motion
Explore Marie Skłodowska Curie’s path from Warsaw classrooms to Parisian laboratories, her pioneering research on radioactivity, and the legacy she built in medicine and science education.
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Follow Nelson Mandela’s journey from rural South Africa to Robben Island and finally the presidency, tracing how his leadership helped dismantle apartheid and inspire global movements for justice.
Malala Yousafzai: Voice for Education
Trace Malala Yousafzai’s journey from a student in Pakistan’s Swat Valley to a global advocate for girls’ education and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Echoes of the Silk Road
Journey with a 14th-century caravan leader from Chang'an to Venice, witnessing how science, language, and trade weave empires together along the Silk Road.