IELTS ACADEMIC READING (BASIC)

READING TASK 1: Holiday Blues

READING TASK 2: Weakness of the School System
READING TASK 3: Amazon Rainforest of Peru
READING TASK 4: A Shot for Public Health
READING TASK 5: High-tech Switzerland
READING TASK 6: Reading Comics is Good for you
READING TASK 7: The Sweet Scent of Success
READING TASK 8: A Wonder Plant

PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently
READING PASSAGE 2: The Triune Brain
READING PASSAGE 3: Helium's Future up in the Air
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Growing of the Aging Society
READING PASSAGE 2: Space Flight Tourism
READING PASSAGE 3: Doctor's Rights and Drinks
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: The Mysteries of Water
READING PASSAGE 2: Vehicle Safety Systems
READING PASSAGE 3: The Harmony of Food and Drink
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: William Gilbert and Magnetism
READING PASSAGE 2: The 2003 Heatwave
READING PASSAGE 3: Amateur Naturalists
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: Invasive Species
READING PASSAGE 2: Private Space
READING PASSAGE 3: Engineering a Solution to Climate Change
 IELTS ACADEMIC READING (LOW INTERMEDIATE)
READING TASK 1: Visual Art Education: A Frill or a Necessity?
READING TASK 2: A Song in the Brain
READING TASK 3: Sinking Cities
READING TASK 4: Keep Taking the Tablets
READING TASK 5: Abuzz About Bee Genomics
READING TASK 6: Sustainable Architecture - Lessons from the Ant
READING TASK 7: At the Crossroads Out of Africa
READING TASK 8: Plants Scents
READING TASK 9: The Lost City
READING TASK 10: The Wild Side of Town
READING TASK 11: Improving Patients Safety
READING TASK 12: Seas Beneath the Sands
READING TASK 13: Pollution in the Bay
READING TASK 14: Can Scientists Tell Us: What Happiness is?

PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: Aphantasia: A Life Without Mental Images
READING PASSAGE 2: Lessons from Villains, Crooks, and Gangsters
READING PASSAGE 3: Mysterious Dark Matter May not Always Have Been Dark
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Odonata
READING PASSAGE 2: History of Fire Fighting and Prevention
READING PASSAGE 3: The Luddites
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: The Swine Flu Pandemic
READING PASSAGE 2: Mission to Collect Material on the Moon
READING PASSAGE 3: Organism's Appearance
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: The Green Revolution in China
READING PASSAGE 2: The Efficacy of Hypnotherapy
READING PASSAGE 3: The Well-being Life
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: Scientists are Mapping the World's Largest Volcano
READING PASSAGE 2: We Know the City where HIV First Emerged
READING PASSAGE 3: Penguins' Anti-ice Trick Revealed
READING TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: The Extraordinary Watkin Tench
READING PASSAGE 2: Are Artists Liars?
READING PASSAGE 3: Theory or Practice?
READING TEST 7
READING PASSAGE 1: Extraterrestrial National Park
READING PASSAGE 2: Asiatic Black Bear
READING PASSAGE 3: Colorado Desert
READING TEST 8
READING PASSAGE 1: The "Extinct" Grass in Britain
READING PASSAGE 2: Keep the Water Away
READING PASSAGE 3: What do Babies know?
 ITP READING 7 (TESTS 13-15)
PRACTICE TEST 13
READING PASSAGE 1: Research Using Twins
READING PASSAGE 2: An Introduction to Film Sound
READING PASSAGE 3: The Marvellous Intention
PRACTICE TEST 14
READING PASSAGE 1: Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids
READING PASSAGE 2: Endless Harvest
READING PASSAGE 3: Effects of Noise
PRACTEST TEST 15
READING PASSAGE 1: Why Pagodas Don't Fall Down
READING PASSAGE 2: The True Cost of Food
READING PASSAGE 3: Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project
 ITP READING 8 (TESTS 7-11)
PRACTICE TEST 7
READING PASSAGE 1: The Origins of Laughter
READING PASSAGE 2: The Lost City
READING PASSAGE 3: Global Warming in New Zealand
PRACTICE TEST 8
READING PASSAGE 1: Seas Beneath the Sands
READING PASSAGE 2: High Intensity Training
READING PASSAGE 3: At the Crossroads Out of Africa
PRACTICE TEST 9
READING PASSAGE 1: Visual Art Education: A Fill or Necessity
READING PASSAGE 2: Beyond Copenhagen
READING PASSAGE 3: Abuzz About Bee Genomics
PRACTICE TEST 10
READING PASSAGE 1: Raining Ice
READING PASSAGE 2: Twisted Light
READING PASSAGE 3: Sinking Cities
PRACTICE TEST 11
READING PASSAGE 1: Plant Scents
READING PASSAGE 2: We have Star Performers!
READING PASSAGE 3: Assessing the Risk
 ITP READING 9 (TESTS 1-5)
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: How to Spot a Liar?
READING PASSAGE 2: Being Left-handed in a Right-handed World
READING PASSAGE 3: What is a Dinosaur?
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Learning by Examples
READING PASSAGE 2: A New Ice Age
READING PASSAGE 3: The Fruit Book
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: The Mozart Effect
READING PASSAGE 2: The Ant and the Mandarin
READING PASSAGE 3: Music: Language We All Speak
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: Wonder Plant
READING PASSAGE 2: Children's Literature
READING PASSAGE 3: Talc Powder
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: The Sweet Scent of Success
READING PASSAGE 2: Mrs. Carlill and the Carbolic Smoke Ball
READING PASSAGE 3: Communicating Styles and Conflict
 ITP READING 10 (TESTS 1-7)
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: Going Bananas
READING PASSAGE 2: Coastal Archaeology of Britain
READING PASSAGE 3: Travel Books
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Ambergris
READING PASSAGE 2: Tackling Hunger in Msekeni
READING PASSAGE 3: Placebo Effect - The Power of Nothing
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: Going Nowhere Fast
READING PASSAGE 2: The Seedhunters
READING PASSAGE 3: Assessing the Risk
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: The Origins of Laughter
READING PASSAGE 2: The Lost City
READING PASSAGE 3: Designed to Last: Could Better Design Cure Our Throwaway Culture?
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: Alfred Nobel
READING PASSAGE 2: Bird Migration
READING PASSAGE 3: The Ingenuity Gap
PRACTICE TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: Man or Machine
READING PASSAGE 2: California's Age of Megafires
READING PASSAGE 3: The Rainmaker
PRACTICE TEST 7
READING PASSAGE 1: Health in the Wild
READING PASSAGE 2: The Conquest of Malaria in Italy, 1990-1962
READING PASSAGE 3: Sunset for the Oil Business?
 ITP READING 11 (TESTS 1-4)
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: Classifying Societies
READING PASSAGE 2: Tasmanian Tiger
READING PASSAGE 3: Accidental Scientists
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Otters
READING PASSAGE 2: Wealth in a Cold Climate
READING PASSAGE 3: Musical Maladies
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: Morse Code
READING PASSAGE 2: From a Novice to an Expert
READING PASSAGE 3: High Speed Photography
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: Thomas Young: The Last True Know-It-All
READING PASSAGE 2: Antarctica - in from the Cold?
READING PASSAGE 3: Knowledge in Medicine
 VOLUME 14 READING TESTS
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: The Impact of the Potato
READING PASSAGE 2: Ancient Chinese Chariots
READING PASSAGE 3: Stealth Forces in Weight Loss
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Andrea Palladio: Italian Architect
READING PASSAGE 2: Corporate Social Responsibility
READING PASSAGE 3: The Significant Role of Mother Tongue in Education
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: Voyage of Going: Beyond the Blue Line 2
READING PASSAGE 2: Does IQ Test Prove Creativity?
READING PASSAGE 3: Monkeys and Forests
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: T-rex: Hunter or Scavenger?
READING PASSAGE 2: Leaf-cutting Ants and Fungus
READING PASSAGE 3: Honey Bees in Trouble
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: Ants Could Teach Ants
READING PASSAGE 2: The Development of Plastics
READING PASSAGE 3: Global Warming in New Zealand
PRACTICE TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: Computer Games for Preschoolers: Nintendo's Research and Design Process
READING PASSAGE 2: The History of Pencil
READING PASSAGE 3: Motivating Drives
 TESTS 1-6
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: Gender Selection
READING PASSAGE 2: The Disease Multiple Sclerosis
READING PASSAGE 3: Surge Protection
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: What Makes us Happy?
READING PASSAGE 2: The Business of Space
READING PASSAGE 3: Using Mathematics to Secure Our Money
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: Synaesthesia
READING PASSAGE 2: The Taman Shud Case
READING PASSAGE 3: Coinage in Ancient Greece
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: Young Adult Novels
READING PASSAGE 2: Plant Wars
READING PASSAGE 3: Deafhood
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: A Brief History of London Underground
READING PASSAGE 2: The Pioneer Anomaly
READING PASSAGE 3: The Future of Food
PRACTICE TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: One-Child Policy China
READING PASSAGE 2: The Effects of Deforestation
READING PASSAGE 3: Film Noir
 ITP READING 3
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: The Origins of Laughter
READING PASSAGE 2: Ancient Chinese Chariots (VOLUME 14 READING BOOK PRACTICE TEST 1)
READING PASSAGE 3: Global Warming in New Zealand
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: ???? (q1-12) The Impact of the Potato (VOLUME 14 READING BOOK PRACTICE TEST 1)
READING PASSAGE 2: High Intensity Training
READING PASSAGE 3: ???? (q28-40) Stealth Forces in Weight Loss (VOLUME 14 READING BOOK PRACTICE TEST 1)
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: ???? (q1-13) Thomas Young: The Last True Know-It-All (ITP READING 11 PRACTICE 4)
READING PASSAGE 2: Beyond Copenhagen
READING PASSAGE 3: ???? (q27-40) Knowledge in Medicine (ITP READING 11 PRACTICE 4)
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: Raining Ice
READING PASSAGE 2: Twisted Light
READING PASSAGE 3: ???? (q28-40) Antarctica - in from the Cold (ITP READING 11 PRACTICE 4)
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: ???? (q1-13) Andrea Palladio: Italian Architect (VOLUME 14 READING TEST PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 2: We have Star Performers!
READING PASSAGE 3: Assessing the Risk
PRACTICE TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: How to Spot a Liar?
READING PASSAGE 2: Being Left-handed in a Right-handed World
READING PASSAGE 3: What is a Dinosaur?
PRACTICE TEST 7
READING PASSAGE 1: Learning by Examples
READING PASSAGE 2: A New Ice Age
READING PASSAGE 3: The Fruit Book
PRACTICE TEST 8
READING PASSAGE 1: The Mozart Effect
READING PASSAGE 2: The Ant and the Mandarin
READING PASSAGE 3: Music: Language We All Speak
PRACTICE TEST 9
READING PASSAGE 1: ???? (q1-13) Corporate Social Responsibility (VOLUME READING 14)
READING PASSAGE 2: Children's Literature
READING PASSAGE 3: Talc Powder
PRACTICE TEST 10
READING PASSAGE 1: The Sweet Scent of Success
READING PASSAGE 2: Mrs. Carlill and the Carbolic Smoke Ball
READING PASSAGE 3: Communicating Styles and Conflict
PRACTICE TEST 11
READING PASSAGE 1: Going Bananas
READING PASSAGE 2: Coastal Archaeology of Britain
READING PASSAGE 3: Travel Books
PRACTICE TEST 12
READING PASSAGE 1: Ambergris
READING PASSAGE 2: Tackling Hunger in Msekeni
READING PASSAGE 3: Placebo Effect - The Power of Nothing
PRACTICE TEST 13
READING PASSAGE 1: Going Nowhere Fast
READING PASSAGE 2: The Seedhunters
READING PASSAGE 3: ???? (q27-40) The Significant Role of Mother Tongue in Education (VOLUME 14)
PRACTICE TEST 14
READING PASSAGE 1: ???? (q1-13) Voyage of Going: Beyond the Blue Line 2 (VOLUME 14)
READING PASSAGE 2: ???? (q14-26) Does IQ Test Prove Creativity?
READING PASSAGE 3: Designed to Last: Could Better Design Cure Our Throwaway Culture?
PRACTICE TEST 15
READING PASSAGE 1: Alfred Nobel
READING PASSAGE 2: Bird Migration
READING PASSAGE 3: The Ingenuity Gap
PRACTICE TEST 16
READING PASSAGE 1: Man or Machine
READING PASSAGE 2: California's Age of Megafires
READING PASSAGE 3: The Rainmaker
PRACTICE TEST 17
READING PASSAGE 1: Health in the Wild
READING PASSAGE 2: The Conquest of Malaria in Italy, 1990-1962
READING PASSAGE 3: Sunset for the Oil Business?
PRACTICE TEST 18
READING PASSAGE 1: Classifying Societies
READING PASSAGE 2: Tasmanian Tiger
READING PASSAGE 3: Accidental Scientists
PRACTICE TEST 19
READING PASSAGE 1: Otters
READING PASSAGE 2: Wealth in a Cold Climate
READING PASSAGE 3: Musical Maladies
PRACTICE TEST 20
READING PASSAGE 1: Morse Code
READING PASSAGE 2: From a Novice to an Expert
READING PASSAGE 3: High Speed Photography
 ITP READING 4
PRACTICE TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1: T-rex: Hunter or Scavenger?
READING PASSAGE 2: Leaf-cutting Ants and Fungus
READING PASSAGE 3: Honey Bees in Trouble
PRACTICE TEST 2
READING PASSAGE 1: Ants Could Teach Ants
READING PASSAGE 2: The Development of Plastics
READING PASSAGE 3: Global Warming in New Zealand
PRACTICE TEST 3
READING PASSAGE 1: Computer Games for Preschoolers: Nintendo's Research and Design Process
READING PASSAGE 2: The History of Pencil
READING PASSAGE 3: Motivating Drives
PRACTICE TEST 4
READING PASSAGE 1: Gender Selection
READING PASSAGE 2: The Disease Multiple Sclerosis
READING PASSAGE 3: Surge Protection
PRACTICE TEST 5
READING PASSAGE 1: What Makes us Happy?
READING PASSAGE 2: The Business of Space
READING PASSAGE 3: Using Mathematics to Secure Our Money
PRACTICE TEST 6
READING PASSAGE 1: Synaesthesia
READING PASSAGE 2: The Taman Shud Case
READING PASSAGE 3: Coinage in Ancient Greece
PRACTICE TEST 7
READING PASSAGE 1: Young Adult Novels
READING PASSAGE 2: Plant Wars
READING PASSAGE 3: Deafhood
PRACTICE TEST 8
READING PASSAGE 1: A Brief History of London Underground
READING PASSAGE 2: The Pioneer Anomaly
READING PASSAGE 3: The Future of Food
PRACTICE 9
READING PASSAGE 1: One-Child Policy China
READING PASSAGE 2: The Effects of Deforestation
READING PASSAGE 3: Film Noir