100 Articles for Developing Your Reading Skills

Why do you need this book?

The Target Reading series is a series of books that concentrate on developing English reading skills. The series comprises three levels of books which lead readers step by step toward mastering English reading skills. Target Reading 2 is the second volume of this series. The book has 100 articles that provide thought-provoking reading material on different themes and various topics, including Arts & Literature, Business, Culture, Entertainment, Geography, Health, History, People, Sports, and Technology.

Each article is followed by six essential questions to help the readers understand its content. These questions address the following categories: main idea, subject matter, supporting details, inference, vocabulary/phrases, and clarifying devices. Through repeated practice with the six categories of questions, readers will be engaged and will develop a more inquiring attitude towards reading. They will gradually gain the ability to glean important information from an article. Furthermore, this thinking-while-reading strategy will prepare readers for a higher comprehension level.

How should you use this book?

Reading proficiency isn't achieved in one step. To master reading skills, readers should follow the reading plan suggested in the book. The readers will read, enjoy, and make steady progress through the 100 articles within 16 weeks.

After finishing this reading project, the readers will have expanded their vocabulary, learned about the various topics, gained confidence in using English, and enjoyed the pictures that help them connect with and comprehend the articles.

Contents

1 Angry Birds

2 History of Wall Street

3 Removing Your Web Presence

4 The New Wave

5 Farming for the Future

6 Alphonse Mucha

7 Aleutian Islands

8 The Memory Eater

9 A Lion in Your Lap!

10 Talking With Your Hands

11 Darkness on the Sun

12 The Great Wall of the Ocean

13 The First Lady of Science

14 The Art of Optimism

15 Emoticons

16 The Leader of the Pack: Michael Schumacher FI

17 House Dust Mite

18 The Great Connector : Collagen

19 Killer Rabbits

20 Every Little Bit Counts?

21 Saving the World by Seeing the World

22 Mother, May I?

23 Giving Back—Whether They Like It or Not

24 Ernest Hemingway

25 Taking Land From the Sea

26 The Computer's New Shape

27 The Most Distinct Languages

28 Ghost Towns

29 Rock Star

30 Insomnia

31 From Shipwrecked to Samurai

32 The Accidental Savior

33 Groupies

34 Art for the Masses

35 Elephants at Work

36 FIFA World Cup

37 Open, Sesames

38 The Raw Food Movement

39 Tony Awards

40 Constructed Wetlands

41 The Deepest Place on Earth

42 The Slurp Heard Around the World

43 Private Intruder: Spokeo

44 Do Facial Expressions Tell U

45 The Missing Aviatrix

46 The Cotton Castle

47 Joan of Arc

48 Shampoo－Do We Really Need It?

49 The Code of Knights

50 The King of Swing: Pete Sampras

51 Listening to Man's Best Friend

52 Music of Laughter And Weeping

53 A Covering for Stormy Weather

54 Birth Order

55 Hollywood Child Stars

56 Rising Seas, Shrinking Forests

57 Aouzou Strip in Northern Africa

58 Meditation

59 Let Me Call You Sweetheart

60 Penguins

61 Mud Volcano

62 Honey

63 Plato

64 The Metal Eater

65 The Imaginary Friend

66 The Food of Earls?

67 Black and White and Strange All Over

68 The Golden Age of Dutch Paintings

69 A Greener Solution?

70 A Nervous Breakdown with a Paycheck

71 Fashion Victims

72 Introduction of Euro

73 Cold Beauty

74 My Mother Says...

75 Who Is TED? TED

76 Talking with Animals

77 Mukhtar Mai

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