Tag: Science (IELTS)
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Cambridge IELTS 8 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1 A Chronicle of Timekeeping A. According to archaeological evidence, at least 5, 000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars to coordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, in particular, to regulate planting and harvesting. They based…
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Cambridge IELTS 7 Academic Reading Test 4
Reading Passage 1 Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in the air’. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves…
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Cambridge IELTS 7 Academic Reading Test 3
Reading Passage 1 Ant Intelligence When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact, the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world…