This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

The passage of time has faded Finian's Rainbow. Its fantasy minces, its humor stumbles, its message plods. Its plot--which genially ignores internal consistency throughout--soon divests itself of ...

Speech intelligibility can be assessed through an evaluation of read discourse. We tend to use The Rainbow Passage for this purpose. This task eliminates language formulation and competence factors ...