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100 Years of the Western Workplace – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

A Conditions in the working environment of Western countries changed significantly over the 20th century. Though not without some associated problems, these changes may be viewed generally as positive: child labour all but ceased, wages rose, the number of working hours in a week decreased, pension policies became standard, fringe benefits multiplied and concerns over health …

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New Zealand Seaweed – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Passage below. New Zealand Seaweed Call us not weeds; we are flowers of the sea. Section ASeaweed is a particularly nutritious food, which absorbs and concentrates traces of a wide variety of minerals necessary to the body’s health. Many elements may occur …

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Gold dusters – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27, which are based on Reading Passage below. Gold dusters They are the Earth’s pollinators and they come in more than 200,000 shapes and sizes. A. Row upon row, tomato plants stand in formation inside a greenhouse. To reproduce, most flowering plants depend on a third party to transfer …

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Finding the Lost Freedom – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You are advised to spend about 15 minutes on Questions 1 – 14 which refer to Reading Passage below. FINDING THE LOST FREEDOM 1. The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we consider our children’s mobility, they can be driven to more places (and more distant places) than …

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Australia and the Great War – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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Australia’s role in the First World War, or the Great War as it was known until 1939, is central to the development of modern Australia’s vision of itself in the world. In many ways, it has served to create what is in some ways a second founding of the nation in the Gallipoli campaign and …

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Mondays are bad for your heart – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 15 which are based on Reading Passage below. A. That ‘Monday morning feeling’ could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday morning and …

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Gondwanaland – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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Read the following passage and answer the questions 1- 13 on your answer sheet. Gondwanaland A. Meet Mesosaurus, a small reptile which lived in fresh-water lakes and streams millions of years ago during the Lower Permain age. Mesosaurus has had a big impact on how we view our planet, because he helped to prove the existence …

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Experience versus speed – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Experience versus speed Certain mental functions slow down with age, but the brain compensates in ways that can keep seniors as sharp as youngsters. Jake, aged 16, has a terrific relationship with his grandmother Rita, who is 70. …

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The Story of Silk – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. THE STORY OF SILK The history of the world’s most luxurious fabric, from ancient China to the present day Silk is a fine, smooth material produced from the cocoons – soft protective shells – that are made by mulberry …

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A song on the brain – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Passage below. A song on the brain Some songs just won’t leave you alone. But this may give us clues about how our brain works AEveryone knows the situation where you can’t get a song out of your head. You hear a pop …

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