Comprension del ingles

Reading Comprehension
We offer you here some texts on various interesting subjects. You can practice reading comprehension and at the same time you will certainly learn something new.
Each text is identified with an icon showing the level of English used on it. You will also find some questions to answer at the end of some texts to test your comprehension.
Remember that you can double clickany word for the Spanish translation or the definition in English.
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Aquí te ofrecemos textos sobre varios temas interesantes. Puedes practicar comprensión de lectura y al mismo tiempo, seguramente aprenderás algo nuevo.
Cada texto está identificado con un símbolo que muestra el nivel de inglés del mismo. También encontrarás una seriede preguntas para responder al final de algunos textos para controlar cuánto has comprendido.
Recuerda que puedes hacer doble click sobre cualquier palabra para obtener la traducción en español o la definición en inglés.
Además ahora puedes imprimir las lecturas y los ejercicios.
EXERCISE 1 EASY
The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or UK, is inWestern Europe. It comprises the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland), together with many smaller islands.

The mainland areas lie between latitudes 49°N and 59°N (the Shetland Islands reach to nearly 61°N), and longitudes 8°W to 2°E. The Royal Greenwich Observatory, near London, is the defining point of the PrimeMeridian. The United Kingdom has a total area of approximately 245,000 km².

The UK lies between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, and comes within 35 km (22 miles) of the northwest coast of France, from which it is separated by the English Channel.

Northern Ireland shares a 360 km international land boundary with the Republic of Ireland. The Channel Tunnel ("Chunnel"), boredbeneath the English Channel, now links the UK with France.

lice's Adventures in Wonderland:
Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole - Part 1
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice'without pictures or conversation?'

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think itso VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashedacross her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

The rabbit-holewent straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
peep: espiar
sleepy: somnoliento, con sueño
daisy-chain: cadena de margaritas
close by her: cerca de ella
remarkable: notable, excepcional
ought to have wondered: debería haberse maravillado...