“Otters” A. Otters have long, thin bodies and short legs – ideal for pushing through dense undergrowth or hunting in tunnels. An adult male may be
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IELTS Academic Reading – 8
Reading Passage 1 Spoken Corpus comes to life The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled –
IELTS Academic Reading – 7
The Great Fire of London Paragraph A The Great Fire of London swept through London in September 1666, devastating many buildings, including 13,200 houses and
IELTS Academic Reading – 6
Gifted children and learning A. Internationally, ‘giftedness’ is most frequently determined by a score on a general intelligencetest, known as an IQ test, which is
IELTS Academic Reading – 5
The Grand Banks A The Grand Banks is a large area of submerged highlands south-east of Newfoundland and east ofthe Laurentian Channel on the North
IELTS Academic Reading – 4
WHY PAGODAS DON’T FALL DOWN? In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how has Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings –
IELTS Academic Reading – 3
Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list. In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American
IELTS Academic Reading – 2
Dyslexia Paragraph 1 People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as being lazy. Some probably were but many were simply unable to learn
IELTS Academic Reading – 1
Part 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-11 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The World is our Oyster A. Independent