Free English reading practice
Level 5
114 passages and 460 questions with answers and explanations.
The most demanding set, with typically longer and denser readings.
Synthesize ideas across the text and evaluate nuanced implications.
Levels describe relative difficulty inside this library. They are not school grades, test scores, or CEFR bands.
- Passages
- 114
- Questions
- 460
- Typical length
- 245 words
Biography
Economics
- Comparative Advantage
- Counting What Counts
- Diminishing Returns
- Matching Students to Schools
- The Cost Hidden in a Spare Part
- The Cost You Cannot See
- The Same Basket in Two Countries
- The Store That Belongs to Its Workers
- The Storm That Builds
- What A Price Knows
- When Debts Travel in a Circle
- Why Tomorrow's Reward Looks Smaller
Essay
Fable
Fiction
History
Nature
Nonfiction
Philosophy
- A Person Through Other Persons
- Does Work Need a Larger Meaning?
- In Praise of Doubt
- Looking Again
- Second Nature
- The Allegory of the Cave
- The Child in the Pond
- The Choice You Could Not Have Avoided
- The Machine That Feels Like Life
- The Path Made by Many Feet
- The Ship of Theseus
- The Stone Too Heavy to Lift
- The Veil of Ignorance
- Two Explanations, One Shadow
- What We Owe the Unborn
- Where The Heap Ends
Psychology
Science
- Air From Another Age
- An Entangled Bank
- Faraday’s Lines of Inquiry
- How DNA Fits Inside a Cell
- Sealed Until the End
- The Blanket of Air
- The Cylinder in the Vault
- The Lives of Stars
- The Particle That Passes Through Earth
- The Plates Beneath Our Feet
- The Sugar Pill Problem
- The Tunnel Through a Barrier
- Why a Clay Jar Cools Water
- Why Time Runs at Different Speeds
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