Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test

Passage A Given the speed at which their workers are growing greyer, employers know surprisingly little about how productive they are. The general assumption is that the old are …

Passage A Until now, governments and development agencies have tried to tackle the problem through large-scale projects: gigantic dams, sprawling irrigation canals and vast new fields of high-yield crops …

Passage A Americans today choose among more options in more parts of life than has ever been possible before. To an extent, the opportunity to choose enhances our lives. …

Passage A 16th and 17th centuries saw two great pioneers of modern science: Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of their findings is eminent. Gilbert was the first modern scientist, …

Passage A The difference between companies is people. With capital and technology in plentiful supply, the critical resource for companies in the knowledge era will be human talent. Companies …

Passage A The scientific study of twins goes back to the late 19th century, when Francis Galton, an early geneticist, realised that they came in two varieties: identical twins …

Passage Becoming an Expert Expertise is commitment coupled with creativity.Specifically,it is the commitment of time,energy,and resources to a relatively narrow field of study and the creative energy necessary to …

Passage A Fifty thousand years ago, a lush landscape greeted the first Australians making their way towards the south-east of the continent. Temperatures were cooler than now. Megafauna—giant prehistoric …

Passage A It was late spring or early summer. The man hurried through a forest he knew well, wincing from the pain in his injured right hand and pausing …

Passage A In the frontispiece of his book on Brunel，Peter Hay quotes from Nicholson’s British Encyclopaedia of 1909 as follows: ‘Engineers are extremely necessary for these purposes; wherefore it …