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 3 is the third 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. The Sweetest Poison

2. The Era of the Super-Rich: The Robber Barons

3. Chasing Cheese

4. Zara

5. Dining in the Dark

6. Banksy: The Illegal Artist

7. Zombie Ants

8. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Struggle and Genius

9. Food Fight! La Tomatina

10. Mark Zuckerberg: from Fencing to Facebook

11. Virtual Dressing Room

12. The City of Music

13. The Golden Raspberry Awards

14. Catatumbo Lightning

15. The Soft Glow of the Natural World

16. 3D Printing

17. The Search for Atlantis

18. Holi: The Festival of Colors

19. Gates of Hell

20. The Most Poisonous Creatures in the World

21. The Collapse of a Wall Street Dynasty

22. The Adventures of Tintin

23. The Salar de Uyuni

24. The French Paradox

25. Parallel Universes

26. Permanent Tongue-Twisters

27. Christopher Reeve

28. Face Transplants

29. Dark Matter

30. Dead Animal Art: Damien Hirst

31. The Immortal Jellyfish

32. The Korean Wave

33. Bangkok: The Next Atlantis?

34. Japan's Rising Literary Star – Haruki Murakami

35. Rare Earth Elements

36. The Incredible Sled Dog

37. The Asian Plastic Surgery Boom

38. Installation Art: Becoming the Sculpture

39. Copycat Economics

40. Interactive Books

41. Green Highways

42. A Method in the Madness: Salvador Dali

43. From Seljalandsfoss with Love

44. Lolita Fashion in Japan

45. For-Benefit Enterprise

46. Sitcoms

47. Sustainable Construction: The Next Green Wave

48. Belly Dancing: From Mesopotamia to Mainstream

49. Apricot Kernels: The Cancer Buster?

50. Yangshuo: China's Natural Wonder

51. The New Age Movement

52. The Life of a Gold Prospector

53. LulzSec

54. Hidden Risks in Everyday Foods

55. Global Dimming: Global Warming's Evil Twin

56. Second Life

57. English: the Great Absorber

58. Oceans of Garbage

59. The App Store (iOS)

60. Traditional Chinese Medicine

61. Socotra

62. Paranormal Activity

63. Smartphones Detect Danger in a Heartbeat

64. The Siege of Beijing

65. Salmonella: The...