Reading

Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression – IELTS Academic Reading

Reading, True False Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression Cutting back on television, videos, and video games reduce acts of aggression among schoolchildren, according to a study by Dr. Thomas Robinson and others from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, …

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Implementing the Cycle of Success – A Case Study – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Multiple Choice Question, Reading / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below:  IMPLEMENTING THE CYCLE OF SUCCESS:A CASE STUDY        Within Australia, Australian Hotels Inc (AHI) operates nine hotels and employs over 2000 permanent full-time staff, 300 permanent part-time employees and 100 casual staff. One of its latest ventures, …

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Educating Psyche – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, True False Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. EDUCATING PSYCHE Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning. One the theory discussed in the book is that proposed …

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The Ingenuity Gap – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, True False Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15–28, which are based on the reading passage below. Write answers to questions in boxes 15-28 on your answer sheet.  The Ingenuity Gap Ingenuity, as I define it here, consists not only of ideas for new technologies like computers or drought-resistant crops but, more fundamentally, of ideas for better institutions and social …

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Creating Artificial Reefs – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Multiple Choice Question, Reading / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passag below.  Creating Artificial Reefs In the coastal waters of the US, a nation’s leftovers have been discarded. Derelict ships, concrete blocks, scrapped cars, army tanks, tyres filled with concrete and redundant planes litter the sea floor. However, this is not …

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A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Multiple Choice Question, Reading / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15 which are based on Reading Passage below: A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity’s steps towards a life-enhancing technology. To early man, the fire was a divine gift randomly delivered in the form of …

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Sheet Glass Manufacture: The Float Process – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, True False Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Sheet glass manufacture:the float process Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime. When heated to about 1500 degrees Celsius (°C) this becomes a …

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First Impressions Count – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT A Traditionally uniforms were — and for some industries still are — manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it is also likely that all uniforms made symbolic sense – those for the military, for example, were originally intended to impress and even terrify the enemy; other uniforms denoted a …

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