Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test

Passage Could better design cure our throw away culture? A Jonathan Chapman, a senior lecture at the University of Brighton, UK, is one of a new breed of ‘sustainable …

Passage A As a title for a supposedly unprejudiced debate on scientific progress, “Panic attack: interrogating our obsession with risk” did not bode well. Held last week at the …

Passage A In 1937 the great neuroscientist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of the University of Oxford laid out what would become a classic description of the brain at work. …

Passage A It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone, so most …

Passage A In Robert Plomin’s line of work, patience is essential. Plomin, a behavioral geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, wants to understand the nature of intelligence. …

Passage A No one doubts that intelligence develops as children grow older. Yet the oncept of intelligence has proved both quite difficult to define in unambiguous terms and unexpectedly …

Passage A While it may not be possible to completely age-proof our brains, a brave new world of anti-aging research shows that our gray matter may be far more …

Passage A In April 2002 an event took place which demonstrated one of the many applications of information theory. The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent …

Passage A A satellite in the solar system got pictures of Jupiter and Saturn and the pictures were meant to be sent back to the earth. Unfortunately, the satellite …

Passage A In the blink of an eye, a wave of visible light completes a quadrillion oscillations, or cycles. That very large number presents both opportunities and a challenge. …