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Jobs in Ancient Egypt – IELTS General Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Reading Passages below. Write answers to questions in boxes 28-40 on your answer sheet. GT Reading Sample – “Jobs in Ancient Egypt” Read the text below and answer Questions 28-40 Jobs in Ancient Egypt In order to be engaged in the higher professions in ancient Egypt, a person had […]

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Spoken Corpus Comes To Life – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage 127 below. Spoken Corpus Comes To Life A.  The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled – who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good

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Moles happy as homes go underground – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-26 which are based on Reading Passage below. Moles happy as homes go underground A. The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmund and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. Closer inspection revealed a chink of

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The Department Of Ethnography – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 12 which are based on Reading Passage below. THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY The Department of Ethnography was created as a separate department within the British Museum in 1946, after 140 years of gradual development from the original Department of Antiquities. If is concerned with the people of

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IELTS Academic Reading Sample 96 – Making Time for Science

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on Reading Passage 96 below. MAKING TIME FOR SCIENCE Chronobiology might sound a little futuristic – like something from a science fiction novel, perhaps – but it’s actually a field of study that concerns one of the oldest processes life on this planet

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IELTS Academic Reading # 153 – Persistent bullying is one of the worst experiences

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-30The Reading Passage has six sections, A-F.Choose the correct heading for sections A-D from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet.__________________________________________________ List of Headings i  The role of video violenceii  The failure of government policyiii  Reasons

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