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IELTS Academic Reading Full Mock Test 1 — Antonio Stradivari, Waste Disposal & Oil Spills
Complete 60-minute IELTS Academic Reading Mock Test featuring three authentic passages: Antonio Stradivari (Violin Maker Supreme), Solving the Problem of Waste Disposal, and How to Clean a Beach. Complete with 40 questions and instant grading.
IELTS Academic Reading Full Mock Test 2 — The History of Dolls, Spider Silk & Rights for Apes
Complete 60-minute IELTS Academic Reading Mock Test featuring three authentic passages: The History of Dolls, A Unique Golden Textile (Spider Silk), and Rights for Apes. Complete with 40 questions and instant grading.
IELTS Academic Reading Full Mock Test 3 — Chimpanzee Culture, Animal Numeracy & Elephant Communication
Complete 60-minute IELTS Academic Reading Mock Test featuring three authentic passages: The Culture of Chimpanzees, Numeracy: Can Animals Tell Numbers?, and Elephant Communication. Complete with 40 questions and instant grading.
Libraries
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13
THE PLIGHT OF RICE
Read the text and answer questions 1–13
Museums and family visitors in Australia
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Museums and family visitors in Australia (Questions 1–13).
The development of the silk industry
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: The development of the silk industry — From imperial robes to global trade: how silk spread and scaled (Questions 1–13).
The History of Ice Cream
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: The History of Ice Cream — The origins, science and scaling of the world's favourite frozen dessert (Questions 1–16).
Bees and Pollination
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Bees and Pollination — The complex relationship between flowering plants and pollinators (Questions 1–13).
Ancient Storytelling
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Ancient Storytelling — The evolution of narrative from fireside tales to modern cinema (Questions 1–13).
The Seed Hunters
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: The Seed Hunters — How a global network of scientists is racing to preserve plant diversity (Questions 1–13).
The Strange World of Sight
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: The Strange World of Sight — Vision is far more complex and varied than most realise (Questions 1–14).
Socotra Island
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Socotra Island — Geography, endemic biodiversity and the impacts of modern infrastructure (Questions 1–13).
The Development of Plastics
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: The Development of Plastics — Synthetic polymers, historical inventions, and environmental impacts (Questions 1–13).
Why Good Ideas Fail
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Why Good Ideas Fail (Questions 1–13).
Marketing and Mind Control
Official IELTS Academic Reading practice passage exploring how marketing and advertising appeal to the associative nature of the brain and human imitation mechanisms.
Footprints in the Muds of Time
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Footprints in the Muds of Time (The rapid rise of dinosaurs and Triassic-Jurassic extinction evidence). Includes True/False/Not Given and Summary Completion.
Sweet Trouble
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Sweet Trouble (Problems and sustainability in the Australian sugar industry). Includes Matching People, Multiple Choice, and True/False/Not Given.
Sorry, Who Are You?
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: Sorry, Who Are You? (Prosopagnosia, developmental face blindness, causes, and recognition training). Includes True/False/Not Given and Notes Completion.
Animal Minds: Parrot Alex
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 1: An investigation into avian cognition and animal communication, examining Irene Pepperberg's groundbreaking 30-year study with Alex, the African grey parrot.
A Look at the History of Poetry
IELTS Academic Reading: A Look at the History of Poetry. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Dyes and fabric dyeing
IELTS Academic Reading: Dyes and fabric dyeing. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Flying the Coast
IELTS Academic Reading: Flying the Coast. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
In Deep Water
IELTS Academic Reading: In Deep Water. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Origin of Paper
IELTS Academic Reading: The Origin of Paper. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The media literacy of children
IELTS Academic Reading: The media literacy of children. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Thomas Cole: American Nature Painter
IELTS Academic Reading: Thomas Cole: American Nature Painter. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Transport and transport systems during the Roman Empire
IELTS Academic Reading: Transport and transport systems during the Roman Empire. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Keystone species
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: Keystone species — Why the loss of a single species can bring an entire ecosystem down (Questions 14–26).
Preserving Gardens
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: Preserving Gardens — Seed hunters, extinction, and the Millennium Seed Bank (Questions 14–26).
The Internal Body Clock
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: The Internal Body Clock — Each of our cells has an internal 'clock' which dictates our daily rhythms (Questions 14–26).
Why Do We Need Sleep
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: Why Do We Need Sleep — Sleep deprivation, NREM/REM brain mechanics, and health consequences (Questions 16–26).
Bird Migration
Official IELTS Academic Reading practice passage exploring how birds navigate, physical features that aid migration, and unanswered scientific questions.
Preserving Gardens
Official IELTS Academic Reading practice passage about seed hunters, plant species extinction, and the Millennium Seed Bank.
John Ray and the Study of Plants
Official IELTS Academic Reading practice passage on 17th-century English botanist John Ray and the rise of observational science in botany.
Brains Trust: Learning About Ourselves
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: Brains Trust - Learning About Ourselves. Includes Paragraph Matching, Researcher Classification, and Summary Completion with detailed explanations and exact passage citations.
Playing Soccer
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: Playing Soccer (Street soccer versus organised youth soccer). Includes Paragraph Matching, Multi-Select Multiple Choice, and Summary Completion with detailed explanations and exact citations.
The Purpose of Facial Expressions
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2 examining research by Paul Ekman, Alan Fridlund, James Russell, Linda Camras, and Joseph Campos into the social purpose and evolutionary function of facial expressions.
Walking and Shoes in Eighteenth-Century London
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 2: An analysis of changing fashions in footwear and urban leisure in 18th-century London, from muddy streets and protective pattens to the 1762 Paving Act, court shoes, and the social ritual of promenading.
Can a Global Database of Fossils Help Us Predict Biodiversity
IELTS Academic Reading: Can a Global Database of Fossils Help Us Predict Biodiversity. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Creative Problem-Solving
IELTS Academic Reading: Creative Problem-Solving. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Homo ergaster
IELTS Academic Reading: Homo ergaster. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
How the Petri dish supports scientific advances
IELTS Academic Reading: How the Petri dish supports scientific advances. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Keeping an Eye on Shoppers
IELTS Academic Reading: Keeping an Eye on Shoppers. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Keeping the Water Away
IELTS Academic Reading: Keeping the Water Away. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Fascinating World of Attine Ants
IELTS Academic Reading: The Fascinating World of Attine Ants. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Fashion Industry
IELTS Academic Reading: The Fashion Industry. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Women Scientists of Bologna
IELTS Academic Reading: The Women Scientists of Bologna. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The power of music
IELTS Academic Reading: The power of music. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Why Do Singers Lose Their Voices
IELTS Academic Reading: Why Do Singers Lose Their Voices. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The significant role of mother tongue language in education
READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 31–40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Questions 27–40).
Life on Mars?
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Life on Mars? — Terraforming may sound like science fiction, but turning it into fact (Questions 27–40).
Sign, Baby, Sign!
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Sign, Baby, Sign! — How early exposure to sign language benefits hearing and deaf children (Questions 27–40).
Research into Teaching Styles
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Research into the effects of different teaching styles (Questions 27–40).
When people are 'deaf' to music
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: When people are 'deaf' to music (Questions 27–40).
200 Years of Australian Landscapes
Official IELTS Academic Reading practice passage exploring 200 Years of Australian Landscapes exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, colonial artistic influences, and Indigenous Aboriginal art traditions.
Mercator the Map Maker
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Mercator the Map Maker. Includes True/False/Not Given and Notes Completion with detailed explanations and exact passage citations.
Elephant Communication
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: Elephant Communication (Seismic sound transmission and detection in pachyderms). Includes Anatomy Notes, Summary Completion, and Multiple Choice Questions.
The Art of Deception
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3: The Art of Deception (Dr Paul Ekman's research on micro-expressions, facial muscle triggers, and lie detection). Includes Multiple Choice, Word List Summary Completion, and Yes/No/Not Given.
Robert Louis Stevenson
IELTS Academic Reading Passage 3 evaluating the literary legacy, critical reception, and storytelling genius of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in comparison with Sir Walter Scott.
Are We Born Able to Imitate
IELTS Academic Reading: Are We Born Able to Imitate. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
How a prehistoric predator took to the skies
IELTS Academic Reading: How a prehistoric predator took to the skies. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat
IELTS Academic Reading: Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Science in the Kitchen
IELTS Academic Reading: Science in the Kitchen. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Sir Francis Ronalds
IELTS Academic Reading: Sir Francis Ronalds. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Some views on the use of headphones
IELTS Academic Reading: Some views on the use of headphones. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Long Road to Artificial Intelligence
IELTS Academic Reading: The Long Road to Artificial Intelligence. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
The Psychology of New Product Adoption
IELTS Academic Reading: The Psychology of New Product Adoption. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Understanding the lessons of the past
IELTS Academic Reading: Understanding the lessons of the past. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.
Yawning
IELTS Academic Reading: Yawning. Complete authentic practice test with full passage, interactive questions, and detailed answer explanations.