Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. An architecture of disguise is almost complete at Talbot Park in the heart of Auckland’s Glen Innes. The place was once described as a state housing ghetto, …
Passage A. Of the great myriad of problems which man and the world face today, there are three significant fiends which stand above all others in importance: the uprecedented …
Passage Historian investigates how Stalin changed the calendar to keep the Soviet people continually at work.A. “There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm”. With these words, Stalin expressed …
Passage A William Curry is a serious, sober climate scientist, not an art critic. But he has spent a lot of time perusing Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s famous painting “George …
The Beginning of Football Passage A. Football as we now know it developed in Britain in the 19th century, but the game is far older than this. In fact, …
Company Innovation Passage A. In a scruffy office in midtown Manhattan, a team of 30 artificial-intelligence programmers is trying to simulate the brains of an eminent sexologist, a wellknown …
Stress of Workplace Passage A. How busy is too busy? For some it means having to miss the occasional long lunch; for others it means missing lunch altogether. For …
Museum Blockbuster Passage A. Since the 1980s, the term “blockbuster” has become the fashionable word for special spectacular museum, art gallery or science centre exhibitions. These exhibitions have the …
Mechanisms of Linguistic Change Passage A. The changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunciations of earlier …
Chinese Yellow Citrus Ant for BIOLOGICAL CONTROL Passage A. In 1476, the farmers of Berne in Switzerland decided, according to this story, there was only one way to rid …
