Some sites with texts for rapid reading comprehension practice

You can often get old Cambridge FCE, CAE (now called C1 Advanced), C2 Proficiency, (previously known as Cambridge English Proficiency) and IELTS Practice Test Books (you need the versions with answers) from libraries, bookshops, your relatives, colleagues or friends or on Amazon. (Don't get Cambridge IELTS Academic 11 or General 11, Cambridge CAE 5 or Cambridge FCE 5 or 6 as I have those and will share sections with you). Then do all the Reading sections, giving yourself the same number of minutes to do each one as there are questions. There is also the reading section of all the TOEFL tests. Plus anything else you can find by doing a search on Google for:

'free B2 and C1 texts for multiple choice reading comprehension'

or something similar.

 

Level B2

I found this site: https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/advanced.html

and chose this text (se limk) but there are 7 texts in all:

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/23.html

also

https://www.test-guide.com/free-toefl-practice-tests.html check all the links

https://www.test-guide.com/courses/gre/lessons/gre-practice-exam-1/quizzes/gre-verbal-reasoning-practice-test-1 vocabulary

 

B2 level, https://www.examenglish.com/

some general exercises just to get started:

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_reading.html (test1) and then the links on the right and then the link to the second test

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_reading_and_use_of_english_test2.htm

or go directly to the reading comprehension sections:

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_reading_and_use_of_english_part5.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_reading_and_use_of_english_part5_2.htm

 

now here are some more texts from https://www.esl-lounge.com/:

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-reading-multiple-choice.php

For example, Multiple Choice Exercise 1 

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-083-the-earths-plates-reading-multiple-choice.php

then use the lnks to the other Multiple Choice Exercises 2, 3 etc… 

Don't give yourself too much time when you do these reading comprehension texts. For example, as we said, when there are 6 questions, you have 6 minutes. If there are 4 questions, this means 4 minutes. Do each reading comprehension, first without a dictionary. Then check the words you don't know and see if you want to change your answers. Then check the answers.

 

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/

 

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/FCE-Part-5-Multiple-Choice-Practice-Test.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/1part3.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/2part2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/2part3.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/3part2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/part2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/part4.htm

and https://www.learninginstitute.ch/

https://www.learninginstitute.ch/pdfs/fce-reading-uebungen-tests-98.pdf

answers at the bottom of the page

more difficult, level C1

https://www.esl-lounge.com/

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/toefl-reading.php

then

http://www.examenglish.com/IELTS/IELTS_academic_reading1.htm

and then all the other texts on the right of the page, Academic Reading 2-9

then back to http://www.examenglish.com for C1

http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_reading1.htm

and then the other texts on the right of the page

http://www.examenglish.com/BEC/BEC_Higher_reading_part1.htm

and then the other one on the right

https://www.examenglish.com/PTE/pte_general_level3_reading1.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PTE/pte_general_level4_reading1.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/PTE/pte_general_level5_reading1.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_reading3.htm

not texts 1 and 2 please, but the other ones on the right, 4-8

http://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part1.htm for vocabulary

and then the other ones on the right, 2-4

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/proficiency/cpe-074-last-photo-reading-multiple-choice.php

https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/take-ielts/prepare/free-ielts-english-practice-tests/reading/academic

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-public-debt.php

and the other sections under 'related pages'

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r3-mother-fined.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r1-air-base.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r5-siberian-winter.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r6-snake-bites-boy.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r65-advanced-reading-new-website.php

and all the texts here

https://www.esl-lounge.com/toefl-reading.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/ielts-academic-reading.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/proficiency-reading-multiple-choice.php

and all the texts at

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/ielts-academic-reading.php

e.g.

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/ielts/ielts001-academic-reading-1.php

and

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/ielts/ielts008-academic-reading-8.php

https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading_obesity.php

http://www.english-online.org.uk/toeflfolder/toeflread1.php?name=TOEFL%20Reading%20test%201

http://www.grammarbank.com/reading-comprehension-activity-5.html

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/ check the various sections available

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/intermediate.html

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/advanced.html

and choose a text like these for example:

example https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/32.html

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/24.html

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/advanced-c1-reading click on the sections and links to the exercises

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading-advanced.php

https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingtest2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/1part3.htm

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl/reading-comprehension-test-1.html

https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cpe/students/tests/read1p4.htm

https://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/29.html

some useful tips https://www.theclassroom.com/reading-comprehension-multiple-choice-strategies-15231.html

https://classroom.synonym.com/tricks-taking-multiplechoice-exam-8737068.html

https://agendaweb.org/reading/reading-pdf-6

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl/reading-comprehension-test-1.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl/reading-comprehension-test-2.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl/reading-comprehension-test-3.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/sampletoefl3.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl_practice_test4.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl-practice-test-5.html

https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading_comprehension_practice.html

https://www.graduateshotline.com/toefl/reading-comprehension-test-1.html

https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading-comprehension-practice-test-2.html

https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading-comprehension-practice-test-3.html

https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading-comprehension-practice-test-4.html

https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading-comprehension-practice-test-5.html

also

http://prodigy-works.blogspot.com/2018/03/english-task2-reading-comprehension.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading-advanced.php

https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingtest2.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part2.htm

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cpe/students/tests/read1p4.htm

https://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=318 There seem o be 55 reading comprehension texts here!

then here: https://gre.graduateshotline.com/reading_comprehension_practice.html

which is the first Reading Comprehension Test, then click on the links at the bottom of that page for more texts

https://www.manhattanreview.com/free-gre-practice-questions/?qbsec=9

https://www.test-guide.com/courses/gre/lessons/gre-practice-exam-1/quizzes/gre-verbal-reasoning-practice-test-1a

https://estudyme.com/en/english-test/c1-reading/

 https://www.fabulang.com/en/en/b2

https://www.fabulang.com/en/en/c1

https://www.fabulang.com/en/en/c2

https://test-english.com/reading/b2/

https://estudyme.com/en/english-test/c1-reading/

 The British Council https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/b2-reading   12 B2 level texts

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/c1-reading  12 C1 level texts

 B2

and another good site but without answers

https://linguapress.com/advanced.htm

https://linguapress.com/teachers/reading-comprehension.htm

examples: https://linguapress.com/advanced/living-with-brexit.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/los-angeles-brink.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/king-monarchy-future.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/electric-cars.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/magna-carta-rights.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/us-presidential-elections.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/wasp-america.htm

plus other texts, ideas and exercises with links on the opening page

 

Choose an article here. https://www.onestopenglish.com/c1/500016.subject

(There are 20 texts). Then download the advanced worksheet for the questions and exercises and the advanced teacher’s notes for the answers.