April 2018

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 61-Australia's Convict Colonies.

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 61-Australia’s Convict Colonies

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 61-Australia’s Convict Colonies. A The 1700s in Britain saw widespread poverty and rising crime, and those convicted of crimes faced harsh penalties. including transportation to one of Britain‘s overseas colonies. Since 1615, convicts had been transported to Britain’s American colonies, both as punishment and a source of labour, but this practice was […]

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 59-Prehistoric Cave Paintings Took up to 20,000 Years to Complete

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 59-Prehistoric Cave Paintings Took up to 20,000 Years to Complete

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 59-Prehistoric Cave Paintings Took up to 20,000 Years to Complete. It may have taken Michelangelo four long years to paint his fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but his earliest predecessors spent considerably longer perfecting their own masterpieces Scientists have discovered that prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 58-How Mobile Telephony Turned into a Health Scare

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 58-How Mobile Telephony Turned into a Health Scare

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 58-How Mobile Telephony Turned into a Health Scare. The technology which enabled mobile phones was previously used in the kind of two-way radio which could be found in taxis and emergency vehicles. Although this was a great development, it was not really considered mobile telephony because it could not be used to

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 57-The Rise and Fall of the British Textile Industry

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 57-The Rise and Fall of the British Textile Industry

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 57-The Rise and Fall of the British Textile Industry. Textile production in Britain can be said to have its roots as an industry at the beginning of the 18th century when Thomas Crotchet and George Sorocold established what is thought to be the first factory built in Britain. It was a textile

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 56-Bilingualism in Children

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 56-Bilingualism in Children

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IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 56-Bilingualism in Children. A One misguided legacy of over a hundred years of writing on bilingualism is that children’s intelligence will suffer if they are bilingual. Some of the earliest research into bilingualism examined whether bilingual children were ahead or behind monolingual children on IQ tests. From the 1920s through to the

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