(Update 2025) Lie Detector | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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. …
(Update 2025) The reconstruction of community in Talbot Park, Auckland | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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, …
(Update 2025) Density and Crowding | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) Soviet’s New Working Week | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) A New Ice Age | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) The Beginning of Football | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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, …
(Update 2025) Company Innovation | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) Stress of Workplace | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) Museum Blockbuster | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …
(Update 2025) Mechanisms of Linguistic Change | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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 …