IELTS Reading 26: Cleaning up The Thames
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 14 which are based on Reading Passage 28 below.
Cleaning up The Thames
The River Thames, which was biologically “dead” as recently...
Read 25: Secrets of the Forests
A. In 1942 Allan R Holmberg, a doctoral student in anthropology from Yale University, USA, ventured deep into the jungle of Bolivian Amazonia and searched...
Read 24: The Department of Ethnography
The Department of Ethnography was created as a separate department within the British Museum in 1946, after 140 years of gradual development from the...
Read 23: Tracking Hurricanes
North American meteorologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Hurricane Research Division have recently improved the success rate in their forecasting of...
Read 22: Measuring Organizational Performance
There is clear-cut evidence that, for a period of at least one year, supervision which increases the direct pressure for productivity can achieve significant...
Read 21: FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT
FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT
A. Traditionally uniforms were — and for some industries still are — manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it...
Read 20: Looking for a Market among Adolescents
Looking for a Market among Adolescents
A. In 1992, the most recent year for which data are available, the US tobacco industry spent $5 billion...
Read 19: The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness
“New research uncovers some
anti-intuitive insights into how
many people are happy – and why.”
Compared with misery, happiness is relatively unexplored terrain for...
Read 18: Creating Artificial Reefs
Creating Artificial Reefs
In the coastal waters of the US, a nation’s leftovers have been discarded. Derelict ships, concrete blocks, scrapped cars, army tanks, tyres...
Read 17: The Discovery of Uranus
The Discovery of Uranus
Someone once put forward an attractive though unlikely theory. Throughout the Earth’s annual revolution around the sun there is one point...
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