ielts reading practice test

READING PASSAGE 1 The Mozart Effect A. Music has been used for centuries to heal the body. In the Ebers Papyrs (one of the earliest medical documents, circa 1500 B.C.),…

READING PASSAGE 1 MENTAL GYMNASTICS A. THE working day has just started at the head office of Barclays Bank in London. Seventeen staff are helping themselves to a buffet breakfast…

READING PASSAGE 1 Can We Hold Back the Flood? A. LAST winter’s floods on the rivers of central Europe were among the worst since the Middle Ages, and as winter…

READING PASSAGE 1 Tea and Industrial Revolution A. Alan Macfarlane thinks he could rewrite history. The professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades…

READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The “Extinct” Grass in Britain Bromus interruptus, commonly known as…

READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Peal A. Long known as the “Queen of Gems”,…

READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The natural of Yawning A. While fatigue, drowsiness or boredom…