ACADEMIC READING

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 121-ASIA’S ENERGY TEMPTATION. Nuclear power supplies 5% of the world’s energy from more than 400 plants. But with the exception of France and Japan, the rich world has stopped ordering new reactors. A technology that was once deemed both clean and “too cheap to meter” has proved to be neither. The industry’s […]

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 120-Australian Mining Companies In Asia. Mining operations by their very nature have major impacts, positive and negative, on the local area and on local communities. They are usually in remote places and the people affected are often isolated or neglected communities. It is inevitable that mining operations will disturb the environment in

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 119-Much ado about almost nothing. The public outcry over genetically modified food offers several lessons for those working and investing in nanotechnology Profit of Doom 1. “THE time for discussion of the rights and wrongs of GM crops has passed. Intense and consistent economic sabotage and intimidation are what will make the

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 118-PHYSICIAN, RULE THYSELF! Professions and self-regulation A. When is an occupation a profession? There appears to be no absolute definition, but only different ways of looking at the issue, from historical, cultural, sociological, moral, political, ethical or philosophical viewpoints. It is often said that professions are elites who undertake specialized, selfless work,

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 117-Seeing the future in with video-conferencing. Seeing the future in with video-conferencing A. Video-conferencing (or Video teleconferencing-VTC) as a means of communication intra and inter- Business has essentially been possible since the dawn of television. But the early systems, first demonstrated in 1968, were in fact so prohibitively expensive and of such

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 116-Volunteering. A. Volunteering, some might mistakenly think, embraces a plethora of people from all walks of life as well as activities, but data from the other side of the world suggest otherwise. A 2001 survey on who participated in volunteering by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom (UK)