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hi guys
This is my first share :-D
In the attached file there are 160 academic readings to help you on RC and to build your vocab.
Please consider kudos if you like them
wish this help....

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1. BOOKS
2. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
3. CRITICISM
4. STONE AGE
5. IMAGINATION
6. COOKING
7. DANCE
8. DRAMA
9. PAINTING
10. ACID RAIN
11. SUBWAY
12. SEWAGE
13. TRANSPORTATION
14. METROPOLITAN AREA
15. YOGA
16. DAY CARE
17. HOBBY
18. BUTTERFLY
19. SUPPLY AND DEMAND
20. CAPITALISM
21. INFLATION
22. INTEREST
23. MARKET RESEARCH
24. GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT
25. VALUE-ADDED TAX
26. TAXATION
27. PROFIT
28. BANK
29. BANK SERVICES
30. TRADE
31. GAME THEORY
32. DEFLATION
33. PETROLIUM
34. ASTRONOMY
35. ISRAEL
36. TENSIONS BETWEEN
ISRAEL AND THE
PALESTINIANS
37. BILL GATES
38. GREECE
39. WORLD
40. ENCYCLOPEDIA
41. IMMIGRATION
42. HUMAN BEING
43. INSECT
44. PEACE
45. WAR
46. MURDER
47. CHAPLIN, CHARLIE
48. GLUE
49. JOYCE, JAMES
50. KAFKA, FRANZ
51. TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILICH
52. EMBROIDERY
53. GOGOL, NIKOLAI
54. MATERIALISM
55. DOUGLAS, MICHAEL
56. INDUCTIVE METHOD
57. HOMER
58. SYNAGOGUE
59. BLAKE, WILLIAM
60. SHAW, GEORGE
BERNARD
61. SEVEN WONDERS OF
62. THE ANCIENT WORLD
63.GOD
64. RELIGION
65. TROJAN WAR
66. HUNTING
67. RECREATION
68. OXFORD UNIVERSITY
69. EFFICIENT LEARNING
70. MEMORY
71.PERFUME
73. WRESTLING
75.TEA
77.AESTHETICS
78.BIOLOGY
83.DEATH
85.CHOCOLATE
87.VEGETARIANISM
88.WEIGHT CONTROL
90. HOW TO CONTROL
OBESITY
91.SUPERSTITION
93.RELATIVITY
97.IMPERIALISM
99.PIPE
100.TORTURE
101.TIGER
103.BAT
104.TRADE
107.ALCHEMY
108.HAYDN
109.CALENDAR
111.BLUES
112.WORDSWORTH,
WILLIAM
113.ARMENIA
117.ZEUS
118.MIGRATION
120.PARSLEY
121.NIGHTHENGALE
FLORENCE
123.CIRCUMCISION
124.POULTRY
126.UNIVERSE
128.MILKY WAY
129.CONCENTRATION CAMP
130.ADOLESCENT
137.MULTIPLE BIRTH
138.ARABIC LANGUAGE
139.MUSEUM
141.FASHION
143.DANCE
145.RAP
146.BATMAN
147.JACK LONDON
148.RIP VAN WINKLE
149.PYRAMIDS
151.BOSPHORUS
152.LEONARDO DA VINCI
156.DIVING
159.USA
164.MARRIAGE

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mourinhogmat1 · Answer

Personally I dont think vocabulary is tested are required for the GMAT. But I think this document is fantastic because it gets you trained for the types of passages you can expect!!! Kudos +1.

Silver89 · Answer

thank you ( for review and the kudos :D )
i hope it will be helpful for you

thangvietname · Answer

GREAT.
Posting the reading is great. We need to read a lot. thing that each page above is a passage and we need to read many hundreds or thousand passage to be able to read the reading monster in 2 minutes. the reading that much can be finish in a few month and do not panic.

the problem with the passages above is that they are to easy.

anyone know the readings like above ones, please, post, or recommend.

Silver89 · Answer

good point
but for me as international student, i can find a lot of new words
if you think that you are good at verbal, u can refer to BB post about fiction books
good luck

thangvietname · Answer

I meet a lot of new words in the reading above, but new words do not affect my reading and so, by saying the above material is easy, I mean the idea in the material is easy to understand. I am a non native who did not take undergraduate study in English.

gmat passages have no new words which affect the our understanding of the passages. The hardness of the passages is sentence complex which contains to many ideas. And, it is hard for us to understand.

TOEFL ibt 100 teach us to guess the meaning of new words in context and to understand meaning of sentences without knowing all the words in the sentences. This is key important because even native speakers meet new words.

what I mean is that we have to read a lot to increase our ability to read a long sentence, not to learn new words. New words is no problem any more for person who pass 80 toef ibt. We read to acquire reading capacity. Although we consult dictionary frequently, remember, truy to get meaning of a sentence/a paragraph before looking of meaning of new word.

if you have a habit of geting meaning of new words before understanding the sentence, this is suicide.

So, please, post harder reading material, which have long sentences and rich ideas, similar to gmat text.

Silver89 · Answer

i wish i can but copyrights are everywhere

paresh124 · Answer

Unable to download please help

Silver89 · Answer

i tested the file
it's working

nammers · Answer

Kudos for this file, it will save a lot of people a lot of time

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

If you find yourself unable to figure out the meaning of a word on RC, see if the passage has brought some sort of comparison you can use.

Where as he is X, she is Y - > even without knowing anything about X or Y, you get the sense they are opposed or different in some meaningful way. Try to use this. If you see an X whose meaning you simply don't know, try to look for its "Y" - whose meaning you might.

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