C1 — Advanced Reading
Editorials, academic-style articles, complex essays and sophisticated argumentative nonfiction. 8 original texts, each with vocabulary, key expressions, a reading strategy, and questions with explanations.
Skills at this level: Nuanced inference · Tone · Rhetorical purpose · Argument analysis · Assumptions · Author's stance · Evidence evaluation
Your Attention, Please
An editorial argues that attention — not oil, not data — is the defining scarcity of our century. (Editorials · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenThe City That Never Sleeps — At What Cost?
An editorial weighs the romance of the 24-hour city against the people who pay for its wakefulness. (Editorials · ~2 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenThe Architecture of Memory
How streets and rooms hold our memories — and what is lost when they are demolished. (Academic-Style Articles · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenIn Defense of Slow Scholarship
An essay argues that the race to publish is making knowledge shallower — and that slowness can be a form of rigor. (Complex Essays · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenThe Algorithm Will See You Now
Software now screens our job applications and ranks hospital patients. When should a machine's judgment be final? (Sophisticated Nonfiction · ~2 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenNostalgia Is Not a Policy
Every era believes the last one was golden. An argument about memory, politics, and the uses of longing. (Argumentative Texts · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenThe Language of Climate
Budgets, wars, fevers, and debts: how the metaphors we choose quietly decide the policies we can imagine. (Academic-Style Articles · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
OpenOn Expertise: Who Should We Believe?
Never has expert knowledge been so available, or so distrusted. An essay on what expertise actually is. (Complex Essays · ~3 min · ●●● Challenge)
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