US Citizenship Reading Test 2025 — Practice for Your Interview
Prepare for the official USCIS reading test with sample vocabulary and practice sentences used in the naturalization interview. You’ll also find the 100 Civics Questions and Answers and Writing Test practice — covering all parts of the US citizenship exam. Start practicing now:
In the reading portion, the USCIS officer will ask you to read up to three sentences about civics or history. You must read one correctly (out loud) to pass. Your accent will not cause you to fail.
Reading Vocabulary List:
People
- ✔ Abraham Lincoln
- ✔ George Washington
Places
- ✔ America
- ✔ United States
- ✔ US
Holidays
- ✔ Presidents’ Day
- ✔ Memorial Day
- ✔ Flag Day
- ✔ Independence Day
- ✔ Labor Day
- ✔ Columbus Day
- ✔ Thanksgiving
Question Words
- ✔ How
- ✔ What
- ✔ When
- ✔ Where
- ✔ Who
- ✔ Why
Civics
- ✔ American flag
- ✔ Bill of Rights
- ✔ capital
- ✔ citizen
- ✔ city
- ✔ Congress
- ✔ country
- ✔ Father of Our Country
- ✔ government
- ✔ President
- ✔ right
- ✔ Senators
- ✔ state/states
- ✔ White House
Verbs
- ✔ can
- ✔ come
- ✔ do/does
- ✔ elects
- ✔ have/has
- ✔ is/are/was/be
- ✔ lives/lived
- ✔ meet
- ✔ name
- ✔ pay
- ✔ vote
- ✔ want
Other (function)
- ✔ a
- ✔ for
- ✔ here
- ✔ in
- ✔ of
- ✔ on
- ✔ the
- ✔ to
- ✔ we
Other (content)
- ✔ colors
- ✔ dollar bill
- ✔ first
- ✔ largest
- ✔ many
- ✔ most
- ✔ north
- ✔ one
- ✔ people
- ✔ second
- ✔ south
Sample Reading Sentences:
✔ Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
✔ Alaska is the largest US state.
✔ Citizens can vote.
✔ George Washington was the first president.
✔ Lincoln was the President during the Civil War.
✔ The President lives in the White House.
✔ The President of the United States is elected by the people.
✔ The White House is in Washington D.C.
✔ There are 100 senators in the US Senate.
✔ Washington is on the dollar bill.
✔ Washington is the father of our Nation.