Tag: IELTS Reading Passage 2
Passage In recent years, it has been shown that plants, more accurately roots, play a crucial part in purifying dirty water before it enters seas and rivers. In 15th-century …
Passage AS AN EAST WIND blasts through a gap in the Cordillera de Ti ỉ arán, a rugged mountain range that splits northern Costa Rica in half, a female …
Passage A. The term graffiti derives from the Italian graffio meaning ‘scratching’ and can be defined as uninvited markings or writing scratched or applied to objects, built structures and …
The field of weight loss is like the ancient fable about the blind men and the elephant. Each man investigates a different part of the animal and reports back, …
Passage A. Breeding bitterns became extinct in the UK by 1886 but, following re-colonisation early last century, numbers rose to a peak of about 70 booming (singing) males in …
Passage A. The ants and then agriculture have been extensively studied over the years, but the recent research has uncovered intriguing new findings about the fungus they cultivate, how …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Chinese Yellow Citrus Ant for BIOLOGICAL CONTROL Passage A. In 1476, the farmers of Berne in Switzerland decided, according to this story, there was only one way to rid …
