Reading C2 · The words under the words
Read a museum label, an evasive apology and an uncertain family inventory. Ask what each text leaves unsaid.
20 A4 practice pages + 5 answer-key pages
Inside this pack
- Original English texts with questions that send you back to the passage.
- A short follow-up task to put what you read into your own words.
- Four original texts in each of five themes.
- A4 PDF for printing or reading on screen, with answers at the end.
All 20 practice page titles
Everyday life
- Reading the blank line
- The narrow definition of local
- The gift with a receipt
- The corner of the table
Travel and getting around
- A trial whose failure was useful
- The quiet carriage exception
- The crossing on paper
- A booking in two currencies
Work and study
- The contract nobody expected to read
- The problem with unanimity
- We were told to be flexible
- The apology in the minutes
Essential situations
- An apology with no subject
- What we chose to call consent
- The improved waiting room
- How a promise turns into a target
Culture and community
- The silent revision
- The translation of a hedge
- The letter in the archive
- A small object with a large label
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