Tag: Science (IELTS)
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Cambridge IELTS 4 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 Lost for Words In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. Street signs’, supermarket goods and even their own…
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Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 GLASS – Capturing The Dance of Light A Glass, in one form or another, has long been in noble service to humans. As one of the most widely used of manufactured materials, and certainly the most versatile, it can be as imposing as a telescope mirror the width of a tennis court…
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Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 Spoken Corpus Comes To Life A The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled – who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good at crosswords and definitely knew a lot of words,…
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Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 Right and left-handedness in humans Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 per cent of every human population that has ever lived appears to…
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Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1 A Spark, A Flint; How Fire Leapt To Life The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity’s steps towards a life-enhancing technology. To early man, fire was a divine gift randomly delivered in the form of lightning, forest fire or burning lava. Unable to make flame for themselves,…
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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 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…
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Cambridge IELTS 9 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1 William Henry Perkin The man who invented synthetic dyes William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, sciences, photography, and engineering. But it was a chance stumbling upon a run-down, yet functional, laboratory in his late grandfather’s home…
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Cambridge IELTS 8 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 Land of the rising sum A Japan has a significantly better record in terms of average mathematical attainment than England and Wales. Large sample international comparisons of pupils’ attainments since the 1960s have established that not only did Japanese pupils at age 13 have better scores of average attainment, but there was also…
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Cambridge IELTS 8 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round of golf can become a terrifying dice with death…
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Cambridge IELTS 8 Academic Reading Test 2
Reading Passage 1 Sheet glass manufacture: the float process Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime. When heated to about 1500 degrees Celsius (°C) this becomes a molten mass that hardens when slowly cooled. The first successful…