ACADEMIC READING

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 115-Coming into the World. Back in early 1961, few outside the corridors of dwindling British power had heard of the archipelago centered on the main island of Tristan da Cunha, from which the scattered islands that make up the group took their name. It would take a dramatic volcanic eruption, and an […]

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 114-A History of Fingerprinting. A To detectives, the answers lie at the end of our fingers. Fingerprinting offers an accurate and infallible means of personal identification. The ability to identify a person from a mere fingerprint is a powerful tool in the light against crime. It is the most commonly used forensic

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 113-Three ways to Levitate a Magic Carpet. It sounds like a science fiction joke, but it isn’t. What do you get when you turn an invisibility cloak on its side? A mini flying carpet. So say physicists who believe the same exotic materials used to make cloaking devices could also be used

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 112- Changes in International Commerce. How ethics and fair trade can make a difference The purpose of international commerce is to buy things from and sell things to people in other countries. Hundreds, and indeed thousands, of years ago, this actually worked quite well. People, who traveled to foreign lands, often by

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 111-The Climate Changers.   The romantic notion that early humans lived in harmony with their environment has taken quite a battering lately. Modern humans may have started eliminating other species right from the start: our ancestors stand accused of wiping out megafauna – from giant flightless birds in Australia to mammoths in

IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 110-The Romantic Poets. One of the most evocative eras in the history of poetry most surely is that of the Romantic Movement. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a group of poets created it new mood in literary casting off their predecessors’ styles in favor of a gripping and forceful