Category: IELTS Reading Practice Test
Passage Historian investigates how Stalin changed the calendar to keep the Soviet people continually at work.A. “There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm”. With these words, Stalin expressed …
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 …
Company Innovation Passage A. In a scruffy office in midtown Manhattan, a team of 30 artificial-intelligence programmers is trying to simulate the brains of an eminent sexologist, a wellknown …
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 …
Museum Blockbuster Passage A. Since the 1980s, the term “blockbuster” has become the fashionable word for special spectacular museum, art gallery or science centre exhibitions. These exhibitions have the …
Mechanisms of Linguistic Change Passage A. The changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunciations of earlier …
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 …
Origin of Species & Continent Formation Passage A. The fact that there was once a Pangean supercontinent, a Panthalassa Ocean, and a Tethys Ocean, has profound implications for the …
Memory Decoding Try this memory test: Study each face and compose a vivid image for the person’s first and last name. Rose Leo, for example, could be a rosebud …
Build a Medieval Castle Passage A. Michel Guyot, owner and restorer of Saint Fargeau castle in France, first had the idea of building a 13th-century style fortress following the …
