English Reading Practice Set for Beginners-2

Explore the sunflower sea star, its size and diet, and the 2013 die-off with lesions, while Friday Harbor Laboratories bred healthy stars in 2020 to study reproduction and life cycle.

Trace the Paralympic Games' evolution from World War II origins led by Ludwig Guttmann, through the Stoke Mandeville Games to the 1960 Rome Paralympics, with IPC and international athletes.

Explore how the aurora borealis and aurora australis light up the night sky as solar particles collide with atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen, creating colorful displays visible in high latitudes.

Explore Göbekli Tepe, where circular stone enclosures and tall pillars reveal hunter-gatherers built a 11,000-year-old ritual center, suggesting complex social organization before settlement and agriculture.

Mona Lisa's fame comes from her enigmatic smile and the mystery surrounding her identity, and from being painted by Leonardo da Vinci; the 1911 theft from Louvre heightened its notoriety.

Explore how Lake Chad's rapid shrinkage, driven by drought, irrigation schemes, and cross-border claims, disrupts fishing livelihoods and family incomes, highlighting calls for government action and international cooperation.

Explore Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist, whose economical and understated style, wartime experiences, and works like A Farewell to Arms shaped 20th-century fiction.

Explores brain drain in developing countries, where educated people leave for higher wages and better conditions, and analyzes push and pull factors and negative economic impacts on sending nations.

Explore dolphins' social life from pods to super pods, cooperative care, altruism, culture, and tool use, including sponge foraging.

Explore the film A Plastic Ocean and examine how plastic waste devastates marine environments worldwide, prompting action. Learn practical solutions, including avoiding single-use plastics, reusing bags, and recycling.

Highlight Viola Desmond's beauty business, including her salon and training school for black women, and her courageous stand against theatre segregation in Nova Scotia to advance equal rights.

Explore why bridges collapse, from historical fire and miscalculation to earthquakes and material defects, and learn how modern design and technology improve safety and prevent failures.

Trace the origins of International Workers Day from the Haymarket massacre to 1904, highlighting the eight-hour day, and worldwide demonstrations for workers' rights on May 1.

Explore origin theories and 40,000–80,000 years of history of Aboriginal Australians, tracing nomadic hunter-gatherer life, deep ties to land, and the impact of British settlement through epidemic diseases and dispossession.

Discover how the Cadbury brothers built a purpose-built village for chocolate workers in Bournville, combining a cleaner environment, fair wages, housing, schools, and sports facilities—without pubs.

Explore the early life of Abraham Lincoln, from a poor log cabin upbringing in Kentucky to his rise as the Great Emancipator who ended slavery with the 13th Amendment.

Explore child marriage in Nepal, highlighting the 41% rate before 18, poverty, food insecurity, dowry, and evolving legal age and policy efforts.

A prisoner convicted of a drunken driving killing tries to escape a California prison and is shot by a guard. He is treated and returned to custody.

Explore how the Canary Islands formed from a volcanic hotspot, host diverse ecosystems, and feature high mountains that enable stargazing and host a major European observatory.

The Statue of Liberty, designed by Bartholdi with Eiffel's skeleton, represents freedom after the end of slavery. It highlights design changes and wind considerations discovered in 2018.