Category: IELTS Reading

Passage A. However much we may abhor it, deception comes naturally to all living things. Birds do it by feigning injury to lead hungry predators away from nesting young. …

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 …