Free English reading practice
Level 3
150 passages and 601 questions with answers and explanations.
Mid-length readings with ideas developed across paragraphs.
Connect evidence, separate central ideas from support, and infer carefully.
Levels describe relative difficulty inside this library. They are not school grades, test scores, or CEFR bands.
- Passages
- 150
- Questions
- 601
- Typical length
- 187 words
Biography
- Alice Kober Finds the Patterns
- Ellen Ochoa Carries Music to Orbit
- Granville Woods Connects the Railway
- Hedy Lamarr's Hidden Workbench
- Janaki Ammal Counts the Chromosomes
- Jane Addams and the Listening House
- Lillian Gilbreth Redesigns the Kitchen
- Rachel Carson's Careful Case
- Twenty-Nine Years From Home
Economics
- Sharing The Risk
- The Box That Moved Trade
- The Cost Outside the Receipt
- The Deposit That Brings a Bottle Back
- The Farmer's Choice Before Rain
- The Rule of the Vital Few
- The Waitlist as a Price Without Money
- When Four Calendars Align
- When One Seat Has Three Prices
- When Prices Rise
- Why Even the Best Should Trade
Essay
Fable
Fiction
- Between Two And Four
- Fog On The Crossing
- Room Nine
- Snow Day
- The Bowls She Breaks
- The Closet Map
- The Key With No Lock
- The Painter's Missing Color
- The Radio in the Attic
- The Red Dot in the Photographs
- The Shoes Outside Door Twelve
- The Tide Pool
- The Time Traveller Explains
- The Unclaimed Photograph
- The Understudy
- The Woman
- What The Room Sounds Like
History
- Cracking the Rosetta Stone
- Finding Islands Without a Compass
- Footsteps on the Moon
- How Railways Set the Clocks
- Merchants Without A King
- Roads of Silk and Trade
- Roman Roads: Movement and Power
- Scholarship at Ancient Alexandria
- The Canal Across the Isthmus
- The Drains Beneath Mohenjo-daro
- The First Underground Railway
- The Island Of Glass
- The Machine In The Wreck
- The Pyramids of Egypt
- When the Telegraph Gathered the Weather
- Who Entered London’s Coffeehouses?
- Winter Stored for Summer
Nature
- A Compass Above the Dunes
- A Lichen Is Two Lives
- Cities Beneath the Waves
- Salmon Find the Way Home
- Seeing With Sound
- The Albatross Rides the Wind
- The Communal Pantry of Acorn Woodpeckers
- The Courtyard After Sunset
- The Dance of the Honeybee
- The Kelp Holdfast in a Storm
- The Long Flight of the Monarch
- The Moonflower and Its Night Visitor
- The Trade Under the Forest
- Two Lives in One
- What Connects Beneath a Forest
Nonfiction
Philosophy
Psychology
- Does Choosing Wear Us Down?
- Learning in the Room Where You Will Perform
- Memory Is Rebuilt
- Seeing What We Expect
- The Bystander Effect
- The Ending That Changes the Memory
- The Gorilla You Missed
- The Hand Beside the Sentence
- The Honest Placebo
- The Loop Behind a Habit
- The Pause Before a Conclusion
- The Pull of a Favor
- The Puzzle of the Placebo Group
- The Question That Makes You Want the Answer
- The Quiet Crowd
- The Trap of Sunk Cost
- When Too Many Choices Slow Us Down
- Why Spacing Out Study Works
- Why the Wait Feels Long
Science
- After the Drain
- How a Vaccine Trains the Body
- How Rock Becomes Rock Again
- The Diary Inside A Tree
- The Reflex Behind Goosebumps
- The Road That Looks Wet
- Two Lives, One Body
- What Sleep Does With The Day
- When Earth Hides the Moon
- Why a Bridge Needs a Gap
- Why Ice Floats
- Why Metal Breaks at the Bend
- Why Sleep Finishes Your Reading
- Why Summer Days Grow Long
- Why the Sky Is Blue
- Why Triangles Steady a Frame
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