TOEFL® Reading guides
Strategies, question types and vocabulary for the TOEFL® Reading section.
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Note-Taking Strategies for TOEFL Success: Organizing Your Thoughts and Ideas
Five note-taking habits — selectivity, abbreviations, outlining, active listening, and skimming — for handling TOEFL Listening and Reading.
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Mastering Reading Comprehension and Speed on the TOEFL Test: Effective Strategies Unveiled
Strategies to read faster and understand more on TOEFL Reading — vocabulary building, skimming, active reading, and time management.
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4 Tips for Improving Your TOEFL Reading Score
Four practical habits that raise TOEFL Reading scores — active vocabulary building, skimming and scanning, main-idea tracking, and timed practice.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 016
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on how communities sometimes manage shared resources sustainably without government control, with questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 015
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on the slow, resisted acceptance of germ theory in nineteenth-century surgery, with practice questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 014
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on the Roman road network and its military, administrative, and economic effects, with practice questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 013
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on how bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt at night, with comprehension practice questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 012
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on the craftsmanship behind Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints, with comprehension practice questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 011
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on how amber preserves ancient insects and plants in remarkable detail, with comprehension questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 010
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on how new ideas and technologies spread through social networks, with practice comprehension questions.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 009
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on how migratory birds sense Earth's magnetic field, with 9 comprehension questions and full explanations.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 008
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on sculpture in the early United States, with 9 comprehension questions and explained answers.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 007
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on small mammals in the rain forest canopy, with 9 comprehension questions and answers.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 006
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on the growth of colonial Philadelphia's marketplaces, with 10 questions and explained answers.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 005
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on potash production in colonial North America, with 10 questions and a full answer key.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 004
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on how archaeologists study ancient artistic materials, with 10 questions and explained answers.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 003
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on 19th-century American landscape painting, with 9 multiple-choice questions and a full, explained answer key.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 002
Original TOEFL-style reading passage on Indigenous North American basket weaving, with 10 practice questions, an answer key, and explained answers.
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TOEFL Reading Practice Online | Q&A 001
An original TOEFL-style reading passage on the global water cycle, with 9 comprehension questions, an answer key, and a short explanation for each answer.
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TOEFL Reading Comprehension | Section 3 Test Practice 01 with Answers
Three original TOEFL-style reading passages on deep-sea bioluminescence, Hanseatic trade, and Baroque music, with 24 practice questions and answers.