Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test

Terminated Dinosaur Era Passage A. The age of dinosaurs, which ended with the cataclysmic bang of a meteor impact 65 million years ago, may also have begun with one. …

Paper or Computer? A. Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per- capita …

Intelligence and Giftedness Passage A. In 1904 the French minister of education, facing limited resources for schooling, sought a way to separate die unable from the merely lazy. Alfred …

New Agriculture in Oregon US Passage A. Onion growers in eastern Oregon are adopting a system that saves water and keeps topsoil in place, while producing the highest quality …

Extinct: the Giant Deer Passage Toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of …

Father of modern management Passage A. It’s been said that Peter Drucker invented the discipline of management Before he wrote his first book on the topic, he knew of …

Timekeeper 2 Invention of Marine Chronometer Passage A. It was, as Dava Sobel has described a phenomenon: ‘the greatest scientific problem of the age’. The reality was that in …

TV Addiction 2 Passage A. Excessive cravings do not necessarily involve physical substances. Gambling can become compulsive; sex can become obsessive. One activity, however, stands out for its prominence …

Corporate Social Responsibility Passage Broadly speaking, proponents of CSR have used four arguments to make their case: moral obligation, sustainability, license to operate, and reputation. The moral appeal—arguing that …

Save the Turtles Passage A. Leatherback turtles follow the general sea turtle body plan of having a large, flattened, round body with two pairs of very large flippers and …