The Problem of Scarce Resources – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, Yes No Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on the Reading Passage. Questions 28-31The Reading Passage has five sections A-E.Choose the correct heading for section A and C-E from the list of headings below. Write the correct number i-viii in boxes 28-31 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi  The connection between health-care and other human rightsii  The development of market-based health …

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The Return of Artificial Intelligence – 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: The Return of Artificial Intelligence It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performinghuman tasks such as problem-solving and pattern-recognition. A  After years in the wilderness, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) seems poised to make a comeback. AI …

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Migratory Beekeeping – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, Yes No Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-27 which are based on Reading Passage below. MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING Taking Wing To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation’s 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring, migrating north to find more flowers for their bees. Besides turning floral nectar into honey, these hardworking insects …

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Lessons from the Titanic – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Multiple Choice Question, Reading / By

A  From the comfort of our modern lives we tend to look back at the turn of the twentieth century as a dangerous time for sea travellers. With limited communication facilities, and shipping technology still in its infancy in the early nineteen hundreds, we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business. But to …

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 Endless Harvest – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Reading, True False Not Given / By

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below.  Endless Harvest More than two hundred years ago, Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the north. The islands’ native …

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Some people say that advertising is extremely successful at persuading us to buy things. Other people think that advertising is so common that we no longer pay attention to it.

Academic Essay, Writing / By

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.Write about the following topic: Some people say that advertising is extremely successful at persuading us to buy things. Other people think that advertising is so common that we no longer pay attention to it.Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer …

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The White Horse of Uffington – 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. The White Horse of Uffington The cutting of huge figures or ‘geoglyphs’ into the earth of English hillsides has taken place for more than 3,000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on …

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A Chronicle of Timekeeping – 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. A Chronicle of Timekeeping Our conception of time depends on the way we measure it       A  According to archaeological evidence, at least 5,000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars …

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