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 … Read more
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 … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 55-Ocean Acidification. Caspar Henderson reports on some new concerns. A few years ago, biologist Victoria Fabry, saw the future of the world’s oceans in a jar. She was aboard a research ship in the North Pacific, carrying out experiments on a species of pteropod – small molluscs with shells up to a … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 54-Jargon Jargon A. Jargon is a loaded word. One dictionary defines it, neatly and neutrally, as ‘the technical vocabulary or idiom of a special activity or group’, but this sense is almost completely overshadowed by another: ‘obscure and often pretentious language marked by a roundabout way of expression and use of long … Read more
IELTSDATA READING PASSAGE 53-Unlikely Boomtowns: The World’s Hottest Cities. Megacities like London, New York and Tokyo loom large in our imaginations. They are still associated with fortune, fame and the future. They can dominate national economies and politics. The last fifty years has been their era, as the number of cities with more than ten … Read more