Read in Daily Life — free practice
The 2026 TOEFL Reading section no longer asks only about academic passages. It also gives you the kind of text you actually receive: an email, a notice, a workplace memo, a post. Each set below holds four of those texts and twelve questions on why the text was written, what it asks you to do, and what it lets you conclude. Pick a difficulty and start practicing.
Read in Daily Life gives you the everyday texts a student actually deals with: a welcome email, a notice about a closure, a memo about a change at work, a post asking for advice. The passages are short, so this is one of the easier stretches of the Reading section, which is exactly why a careless mistake here is expensive.
Short does not mean simple. The shorter the text, the more the questions turn on intent: why the writer wrote it, who is being asked to do what, and what the reader is expected to do next. Two or three questions come out of each text, usually one on purpose, one on a stated detail, and one that asks you to conclude something the text never says outright.
Wrong options are built from vocabulary lifted straight out of the text, then bent: the subject is swapped, a condition is dropped, or a future request is turned into a past one. Recognizing the word is not evidence. Find the sentence and check that the whole claim survives it.
Everyday texts save the point for the end. The request, the deadline, the question to the reader usually sits in the final line or two, so an opening that sounds like friendly news often is not what the text is for.
A notice often carries several instructions aimed at different people: one for members who do nothing, one for members who want a refund, one for volunteers. Questions target exactly that split, so as you read, attach each instruction to the person it belongs to.
Read our full walkthrough: TOEFL Read in Daily Life, all 4 text types and 12 tips