IELTS Reading

A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently In the last decade a revolution has occurred in the way that scientists think about the brain. We...

IELTS Reading Practice 45: THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary...

IELTS Reading Practice 44: IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity...

IELTS Reading Practice 43: The man who invented synthetic dyes William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy,...

IELTS Reading Practice 42: Fierce, fabulous and fantastic A new exhibition traces the history of animal painting in Europe from the anatomically inaccurate to the highly...

IELTS Reading Practice 41: A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-9 which are based on IELTS Reading Passage below: The pressure to transform our...

Glossary Words and PhrasesDefinitionIn the textartificialman-madeArtificial artiststrick intofool sb into doing sth… and even tricked them intobelieving a human was behind the score.sophisticatedcomplicatedHuman beings are...

Glossary Words and PhrasesDefinitionIn the text1. stretch outmake something continue for a longer period that was plannedtime stretches out2. apathylack of interest in somethingFor a...

Glossary Words and PhrasesDefinitionIn the text1inhabitant (n)a person that lives in a particular placeNew Zealand is a small country of four million inhabitants.2long-haul (adj)travelling a...

Here's a useful question that a student asked me: Many students complain that they don’t get a high enough score in IELTS reading, and many...