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 … Read more
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 … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 109-The First Antigravity Machine? It was one of the biggest science stories of the 1990s. Even now, the facts behind it remain hotly disputed. And small wonder, for if the claims made for the small disc, the focus of the controversy, are true, it may be possible to break through one of … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 88-Crows Can be Craftsmen too. A remarkable colony of inventors has emerged on an isolated Pacific island. They can fashion tools out of materials scavenged from the rainforest. They can even customize a tool for a given job, Meet the crows of New Caledonia. Thinkers as diverse as Freud, Engels and Thomas … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 86-Children Tested to Destruction? English primary school pupils subjected to more tests than in any other country. English primary school pupils have to deal with unprecedented levels of pressure as they face tests more frequently, at a younger age, and in more subjects than children from any other country, according to one … Read more