Tag: IELTS Reading Passage 1
Passage A Fifty thousand years ago, a lush landscape greeted the first Australians making their way towards the south-east of the continent. Temperatures were cooler than now. Megafauna—giant prehistoric …
Passage A It was late spring or early summer. The man hurried through a forest he knew well, wincing from the pain in his injured right hand and pausing …
Passage A In the frontispiece of his book on Brunel,Peter Hay quotes from Nicholson’s British Encyclopaedia of 1909 as follows: ‘Engineers are extremely necessary for these purposes; wherefore it …
Passage A Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for …
Passage A June 30,1908, 7:14 a.m., central Siberia—Semen Semenov, a local farmer, saw “the sky split in two. Fire appeared high and wide over the forest… From… where the …
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, the term has historically …
Passage A We like to think that laughing is the height of human sophistication. Our big brains let us see the humour in a strategically positioned pun, an unexpected …
Passage A 600 years ago, roller coaster pioneers never would have imagined the advancements that have been made to create the roller coasters of today. The tallest and fastest …
Passage A An international protest this week aims to demonstrate the truth about homeopathy-that there/s literally nothing in it, says Martin Robbins AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more …
Passage A In 1937 the great neuroscientist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of the University of Oxford laid out what would become a classic description of the brain at work. …