Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test

Passage A. While fatigue, drowsiness or boredom easily bring on yawns, scientists are discovering there is more to yawning than most people think. Not much is known about why …

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 A. While it nay not be possible to completely age-proof our brains, a bravenew world of anti-aging research shows that our gray matter may be far more flexible …

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. A paradox lies close to the heart of scientific discovery. If you know just what you are looking for, finding it can hardly count as a discovery, …

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 …

Passage Section A: A decibel Hell:It’s not difficult for a person to encounter sound at levels that can cause adverse health effects. During a single day, people living in …

Passage A. By the time Laszlo Polgar’s first baby was born in 1969 he already had film views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written …

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. In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, didsomething very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find …