(Update 2025) Bright Children | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. By the time Laszlo Polgar’s first baby was born in 1969 he already had film views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written …
(Update 2025) stealth Forces in weight Loss | IELTS Reading Practice Test
The field of weight loss is like the ancient fable about the blind men and the elephant. Each man investigates a different part of the animal and reports back, …
(Update 2025) Animal minds: Parrot Alex | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, didsomething very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find …
(Update 2025) E-training | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. E-leaming is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training, and technology delivered instruction, which can be a great benefit to corporate e-learning. …
(Update 2025) Saving the British Bitterns | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. Breeding bitterns became extinct in the UK by 1886 but, following re-colonisation early last century, numbers rose to a peak of about 70 booming (singing) males in …
(Update 2025) Food for thought 2 | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. There are not enough classrooms at the Msekeni primary school, so half the lessons take place in the shade of yellow-blossomed acacia trees. Given this shortage, it …
(Update 2025) LONGAEVA: Ancient Bristlecone Pine | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. To understand more about the earth’s history, humans have often looked to the natural environment for insight into the past. The bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), of the …
(Update 2025) Save Endangered Language | IELTS Reading Practice Test
“Obviously we must do some serious rethinking of our priorities, lest linguistics go down in history as the only science that presided obviously over the disappearance of 90 percent …
(Update 2025) Leaf-Cutting Ants and Fungus | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. The ants and then agriculture have been extensively studied over the years, but the recent research has uncovered intriguing new findings about the fungus they cultivate, how …
(Update 2025) Video Game’s Unexpected Benefits to Human Brain | IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage A. James Paul Gee, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, played his first video game years ago when his six-year-old son Sam was playing Pajama Sam: …