Category: IELTS Reading
Have Teenagers Always Existed Passage A. Our ancestor. Homo erectus, may not have had culture or even language, but did they have teenagers? That question has been contested in the past …
European Heat Wave Passage A. IT WAS the summer, scientists now realise, when felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: global warming at last made itself unmistakably Britain …
Voyage of going: beyond the blue line 2 Passage A. One feels a certain sympathy for Captain James Cook on the day in 1778 that he “discovered” Hawaii. Then …
Music: Language We All Speak Passage Section A: Music is one of the human specie’s relatively few universal abilities. Without formal training, any individual, from Stone Age tribesman to suburban …
Water Filter Passage A. An ingenious invention is set to bring clean water to the third world, and while the science may be cutting edge, the materials are extremely …
The secret of the Yawn Passage A. When a scientist began to study yawning in the 1980s, it was difficult to convince some of his research students of the …
world Ecotourism in the developing courtiers Passage A. The Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as “a responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of …
Beyond the Blue Line Passage A. Much of the thrill of venturing to the far side of the world rests on the romance of difference. So one feels certain …
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Passage A. Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and …
The coming back of the “Extinct” Grass in Britain Passage A. It’s Britain’s dodo, called interrupted brome because of its gappy seed-head, this unprepossessing grass was found nowhere else in the …
