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Level: B2 📖 Text (English) The animal kingdom is full of bizarre secrets that seem more like science fiction than reality. Consider the immortal jellyfish, a creature that can literally reverse its aging process and revert to its juvenile form after reaching maturity. Another marine wonder, the mantis shrimp, possesses the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, seeing colors we can't even imagine and detecting polarized light. On land, the platypus defies simple categorization; this egg-laying...

Level: B1 📖 Text (English) You see the ads everywhere: juicy burgers, golden fries, and cold, sweet drinks. They look amazing, and when you eat them, they taste even better. There's a scientific reason for this. Fast food is carefully designed to be addictive. It contains the perfect, unhealthy mix of fat, sugar, and salt that our brains love. This combination tricks our brain into releasing "feel-good" chemicals, making us want more. The food is also very soft and easy to eat quickly, so we often consume a lot of calories before feeling full...

Level: B1 Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope made an interesting discovery. For the first time, they found a strange object that is mostly dark matter. This object has gas, but it has no stars. Astronomers call it Cloud-9. It may be a very old part of the universe that never became a normal galaxy. Cloud-9 is different from other objects. It contains gas and is held together by the gravity of dark matter. But there are no stars inside it. This makes it very unique. Scientists think that Cloud-9 could help them learn more about dark matter, which is usually invisible and hard to study...

Я несколько раз пытался читать книги на английском и каждый раз упирался примерно в одно и то же. Первая проблема — найти книгу. Либо она слишком сложная и ты вязнешь в каждом абзаце, либо по уровню вроде подходит, но читать банально неинтересно. Вторая проблема - даже если начало идёт нормально, дальше быстро появляется другая история: начинаешь постоянно спотыкаться о язык, терять мысль, возвращаться назад. В итоге читаешь не сюжет, а борешься с текстом. На длинную книгу просто не хватает ни концентрации, ни терпения...