Category: IELTS Reading

Passage A bovid is any member of almost 140 species of ungulates belonging to the family Bovidae. The bovids are the largest family of hoofed mammals and are native …

Passage A. Aromatherapy is the most widely used complementary therapy in the National Health Service, and doctors use it most often for treating dementia. For elderly patients who have …

Passage Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circlemabout a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces iron …

Passage A. While fatigue, drowsiness or boredom easily bring on yawns, scientists are discovering there is more to yawning than most people think. Not much is known about why …

Passage In recent years, it has been shown that plants, more accurately roots, play a crucial part in purifying dirty water before it enters seas and rivers. In 15th-century …

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

Passage AS AN EAST WIND blasts through a gap in the Cordillera de Ti ỉ arán, a rugged mountain range that splits northern Costa Rica in half, a female …

Passage A. A paradox lies close to the heart of scientific discovery. If you know just what you are looking for, finding it can hardly count as a discovery, …

Passage A. The term graffiti derives from the Italian graffio meaning ‘scratching’ and can be defined as uninvited markings or writing scratched or applied to objects, built structures and …

Passage Section A: A decibel Hell:It’s not difficult for a person to encounter sound at levels that can cause adverse health effects. During a single day, people living in …