Tag: IELTS Reading Passage 2
Passage A The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company made a product called the “smoke ball”. It claimed to be a cure fo influenza and a number of other diseases, in …
Passage “Danger, “ says the sign on the door of a laboratory at the Australian Museum in Sydney: “Tasmanian Tiger, Trespassers will be eaten!” The joke is that the …
Passage Mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from …
Passage A Are we now living through the sixth extinction as our own activities destroy ecosystems and wipe out diversity? That’s the doomsday scenario painted by many ecologists, and …
Passage A Rhythm of the seasons cannot always be relied upon. At times the tropical Pacific Ocean and large expanses of the global atmosphere seem to be marching to …
Passage A. Most modern navigation, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), relies primarily on positions determined electronically by receivers collecting information from satellites. Yet if the satellite service’s …
Passage Humankind’s nearest relative is even doser than we thought: chimpanzees display remarkable behaviours that can only be described as social customs passed on from generation to generation. A. …
Passage A. Gesture is any action that sends a visual signal to an onlooker. To become a gesture, an act has to be seen by someone else and has …
Passage People say that business is all about relationships, but the truth is that business is really all about language communication. Languages make either a direct or indirect contribution …
Passage A. Aromatherapy is the most widely used complementary therapy in the National Health Service, and doctors use it most often for treating dementia. For elderly patients who have …