Reading Comprehension Exercises

Business English

Intermediate

• Airbus crisis over (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Biofuels and the Environment (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Child Labour (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Profit & Loss (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Restaurant Income and Expenditure (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• The Banker to the Poor (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• UK Current Account Record (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Culture & Travel

Beginner

• Indian Drummers (Cloze / Gap Fill)
• Japan's most famous dog (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Jungle girl found (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Intermediate

• Angkor Wat (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Papua New Guinea Reconciliation (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Wole Soyinka (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Advanced

• Mark Rothko (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• The Great Wall of China (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Education & Learning

Intermediate

• Which is the hardest language? (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Advanced

• Cheating and Plagiarism (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• English as a National Foreign Language in India (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Entertainment

Beginner

• Paul Robeson (Cloze / Gap Fill)
• Star Wars (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Intermediate

• Reality TV (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• The Man Booker Prize (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Environment & Nature

Beginner

• Japanese tsunami dog and owner reunited (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Intermediate

• Piranhas (Cloze / Gap Fill)
• The Fastest Dinosaurs (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Advanced

• Dirty Britain (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Health

Beginner

• Intelligence pills (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• John Snow (Cloze / Gap Fill)
• Kenyan Fish (Cloze / Gap Fill)
• Selling human eggs (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Intermediate

• Shambo (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Advanced

• HIV Breakthrough (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Politics

Intermediate

• Scottish Independence (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Advanced

• Gender bias and poverty (Cloze / Gap Fill)

Technology

Beginner

• Robot Birds (Multiple Choice & True/False)

Intermediate

• Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• Bully for you (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• The Digital Divide (Multiple Choice & True/False)
• The ZX Spectrum (Multiple Choice & True/False)