Category: Academic Reading Tests
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Cambridge IELTS 3 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 The Department Of Ethnography The Department of Ethnography was created as a separate deportment within the British Museum in 1946, offer 140 years of gradual development from the original Department of Antiquities. If is concerned with the people of Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and parts of Europe. While this includes…
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Cambridge IELTS 3 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 A Remarkable Beetle Some of the most remarkable beetles are the dung beetles, which spend almost their whole lives eating and breeding in dung’. More than 4,000 species of these remarkable creatures have evolved and adapted to the world’s different climates and the dung of its many animals. Australia’s native dung beetles…
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Cambridge IELTS 3 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1 THE ROCKET – FROM EAST TO WEST A The concept of the rocket, or rather the mechanism behind the idea of propelling an object into the air, has been around for well over two thousand years. However, it wasn’t until the discovery of the reaction principle, which was the key to space…
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Cambridge IELTS 4 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 How much higher? How much faster? Since the early years of the twentieth century, when the International Athletic Federation began keeping records, there has been a steady improvement in how fast athletes run, how high they jump and how far they are able to hurl massive objects, themselves included, through space. For…
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Cambridge IELTS 10 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passge 1 stepwells During the sixth and seventh centuries, the inhabitants of the modern-day states of Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India developed a method of gaining access to clean, fresh groundwater during the dry season for drinking, bathing, watering animals and irrigation. However, the significance of this invention – the stepwell – goes…
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Cambridge IELTS 6 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1 Australia’s Sporting Success Questions 1-7 Reading Passage 1 has six paragraphs, A-F. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-F in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once Questions 8-11 Classify the following techniques according to whether the writer states they…
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Cambridge IELTS 6 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 The power of the big screen Questions 1-5 Reading Passage 1has ten paragraphs, A-J. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter, A-J. in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. Questions 6-9 Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage 1? In boxes 6-9…
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Cambridge IELTS 6 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 Doctoring Sales Pharmaceuticals is one of the most profitable industries in North America. But do the drugs industry’s sales and marketing strategies go too far? Questions 1-7 Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs, A-G. Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet. Choose the correct heading for each…
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Cambridge IELTS 5 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 BAKELITE – The birth of modern plastics In 1907, Leo Hendrick Baekeland, a Belgian scientist working in New York, discovered and patented a revolutionary new synthetic material. His invention, which he named ‘Bakelite’, was of enormous technological importance, and effectively launched the modern plastics industry. The term ‘plastic’ comes from the Greek…
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Cambridge IELTS 9 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 The Life and Work of Marie Curie Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With her husband, Pierre Curie and Henri Raeqiierel,…
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Cambridge IELTS 9 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 Attitudes to Language 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 people feel they have a right to hold an opinion about it. And when opinions differ, emotions can run high. Arguments can…
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Cambridge IELTS 9 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 Children With Auditory Problems Questions 1-6 Reading Passage 1 has nine sections, A-I. Which section contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-l, in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet. Questions 7-10 Answer the questions below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 7-10 on…