Lecturas en inglés nivel C2 con traducción al español

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1. The bench outside the station was unremarkable until it disappeared, leaving a rectangle of cleaner pavement where people had once waited without needing to account for their presence.
2. I noticed the absence because an elderly woman stood beside the wall with her shopping bag resting against her ankle, as though she were keeping a place for something overdue.
3. The official notice described the change as an improvement to circulation, a phrase broad enough to sound beneficial without specifying whose movement had previously been obstructed by people sitting down.
4. There may have been a sensible explanation; what troubled me was how easily the language of improvement made the missing seat seem beneath the level of a question worth asking.
5. Before its removal, the bench had accommodated commuters, teenagers, delivery workers, and occasionally someone whose purpose was not obvious to an observer passing quickly on the way to somewhere else.