Category: IELTS Reading

WHAT COOKBOOKS REALLY TEACH US Passage A. Shelves bend under their weight of cookery books. Even a medium-sized bookshop contains many more recipes than one person could hope to …

The Dinosaurs Footprints and Extinction Passage A. EVERYBODY knows that the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid. Something big hit the earth 65 million years ago and, when the dust had …

Talc Powder Passage A. Peter Brigg discovers how talc from Luzenac’s Trimouns in France find its way into food and agricultural products -from chewing gum to olive oil. High …

BIRD MIGRATION 2 Passage A. Birds have many unique design features that enable them to perform such amazing feats of endurance. They are equipped with lightweight, hollow bones, intricately …

OTTER Passage A. Otters have long, thin bodies and short legs – ideal for pushing through dense undergrowth or hunting in tunnels. An adult male may be up to …

Internal and External Marketing Passage A. Employees need to hear the same messages that you send out to the marketplace. At most companies, however, internal and external communications are …

Detection of a meteorite Lake Passage A. AS THE SUN rose over picturesque Lake Bosumtwi, a team of Syracuse University researchers prepared for another day of using state-of- the-art …

Terminated Dinosaur Era Passage A. The age of dinosaurs, which ended with the cataclysmic bang of a meteor impact 65 million years ago, may also have begun with one. …

Paper or Computer? A. Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per- capita …

Intelligence and Giftedness Passage A. In 1904 the French minister of education, facing limited resources for schooling, sought a way to separate die unable from the merely lazy. Alfred …