Tag: IELTS Reading Passage 1
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, …
Passage A Refrigerators are the epitome of clunky technology: solid, reliable and just a little bit dull. They have riot changed much over the past century, but then they …
Passage For two years southern Sri Lanka suffered a prolonged drought, described by locals as “the worst in 50 years”. Some areas didn’t see a successful crop for four …
Passage A The world’s population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people don’t get enough to eat. Clearly it’s time to rethink the …
Passage Scientists are unlocking the medical potential of venom. A Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it …
Passage A The emperor penguin is an impossible bird. It breeds in the middle of winter in some of the coldest places on Earth, surviving temperatures as low as50 …
Passage A They dive 600 feet, brushing their heads along the seafloor with raised, wartlike patches of skin, sometimes swimming upside down, big as sunken galleons, hot-blooded and holding …
Passage Many animals seem able to treat their illnesses themselves. Humans way have a thing or two to learn from them. A For the past decade Dr Engel, a …
Passage A Before humans arrived, The Americas were home to woolly mammoths, sabertoothed cats, giant ground sloths and other behemoths, an array of megafauna more impressive than even Africa …
Passage A There’s no animal that symbolises rainforest diversity quite as spectacularly as the tropical butterfly. Anyone lucky enough to see these creatures flitting between patches of sunlight cannot …
