Category: IELTS Reading

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 …

Smell and Memory: SMELLS LIKE YESTERDAY Why does the scent of a fragrance or the mustiness of an old trunk trigger such powerful memories of childhood? New research has …

Sunset for the Oil Business The world is about to run out of oil. Or perhaps not. It depends whom you believe… Passage A. Members of the Department Analysis …

Global warming: Prevent poles from melting Passage A. Such is our dependence on fossil fuels, and such the volume of carbon dioxide we have already released into the atmosphere, …

Ambergris What is it and where does it come from? Passage A. Ambergris was used to perfume cosmetics in the days of ancient Mesopotamia and almost every civilization on …

Elephant communication Passage A. A postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, O’Connell Rodwell has come to Namibia’s premiere wildlife sanctuary to explore the mysterious and complex world of elephant communication. …

Numeracy: Can animals tell numbers? Passage A. Prime among basic numerical faculties is the ability to distinguish between a larger and a smaller number, says psychologist Elizabeth Brannon. Humans …

Have Teenagers Always Existed Passage A. Our ancestor. Homo erectus, may not have had culture or even language, but did they have teenagers? That question has been contested in the past …

European Heat Wave Passage A. IT WAS the summer, scientists now realise, when felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: global warming at last made itself unmistakably Britain …

Voyage of going: beyond the blue line 2 Passage A. One feels a certain sympathy for Captain James Cook on the day in 1778 that he “discovered” Hawaii. Then …