Tag: IELTS Reading Passage 1
Passage A It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone, so most …
Passage A In Robert Plomin’s line of work, patience is essential. Plomin, a behavioral geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, wants to understand the nature of intelligence. …
Passage A In the blink of an eye, a wave of visible light completes a quadrillion oscillations, or cycles. That very large number presents both opportunities and a challenge. …
Passage One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues …
Passage A In the late 1990s, psychologist Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania urged colleagues to observe optimal moods with the same kind of focus with which they …
Passage A The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes three stages of adolescence. These are early, middle and late adolescence, and each has its own developmental tasks. Teenagers move through …
Passage A We can find happiness right in our own home, our workplace, in school, in the company of our friends, etc. It is up to us to find …
Passage A Learning theory is rooted in the work of Ivan Pavlov, the famous scientist who discovered and documented the principles governing how animals (humans included) learn in the …
Passage Robot explorers transform a distant object of wonder into intimate terrain. A Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in …
Passage A Ecotourism is often regarded as a form of nature-based tourism and has become an important alternative source of tourists. In addition to providing the traditional resort-leisure product, …