How Does The Biological Clock Tick? – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-32The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i The biological clockii Why dying is beneficialiii The ageing process […]

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Gifted children and learning – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Gifted children and learning A. Internationally, ‘giftedness’ is most frequently determined by a score on a general intelligence test, known as an IQ test, which is above a chosen cutoff point, usually at around the top 2-5%. Children’s educational environment

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Right and left handedness in humans – IELTS Academic Reading Passage 

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage below. Right and left-handedness in humans Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 percent of every

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Air Traffic Control in the USA – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the reading passage below. Question 14- 19The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for paragraph A and C-G from the list below. Write the correct number i-ix, in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet. List of Headings: i      Disobeying FAA Regulationsii     Aviation disaster prompts actioniii    Two coincidental developmentsiv    Setting

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Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Striking Back at LightningWith Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round

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Population movements and genetics – IELTS Academic Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 14-19The Reading Passage has seven sections, A-G.Choose the correct headings for sections A-F from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet.____________________________________________________________List of Headings i  The results of the research into blood-variantsii  Dental evidenceiii  Greenberg’s analysis of

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The coral reefs of Agatti Island- IELTS Academic Reading Passage

Question 1-9Reading Passage 61 has nine paragraphs A–I.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. List of Headings i. Island legends                           ii. Resources for exchange               iii. Competition for fishing rights    iv. The low cost of equipment          v.  Agatti’s favourable location         vi. Rising income levelsvii.The social nature of reef occupations    viii.Resources for islanders’ own useix. High levels of expertise        x.

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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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