Cambridge IELTS 5, Test 2, Reading Passage 2 : What’s so funny?
What’s so funny? John McCrone reviews recent research on humour The joke comes over the headphones: ‘ Which side of a dog has the most hair? The left.’ No, not funny. Try again. ‘...
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Cambridge IELTS 5, Test 2, Reading Passage 1 : BAKELITE The birth of modem plastics
BAKELITE The birth of modem plastics In 1907, Leo Hendrick Baekeland, a Belgian scientist working in New York, discovered and patented a revolutionary new synthetic material. His invention, which he named ‘Bakelite’, was of...
Cambridge IELTS 5, Test 1, Reading Passage 3 : THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hit-list of our main fears: that natural resources are running out, that the population is...
Cambridge IELTS 14, Test 1, Reading Passage 1: The Importance of Children’s Play Solution with Answer Key
Cambridge IELTS 14, Reading Test 1, Passage 1 The Importance of Children’s Play Solution with Answer Key. Here we will discuss detailed explanation of all the questions of the passage. Here is step by...
Cambridge IELTS 5, Test 1, Reading Passage 2 : Nature or Nurture?
Nature or Nurture? A A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for...
Cambridge IELTS 5, Test 1, Reading Passage 1 : Johnson’s Dictionary
Johnson’s Dictionary For the century before Johnson’s Dictionary was published in 1775, there had been concern about the state of the English language. There was no standard way of speaking or writing and no...
Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 4, Reading Passage 3 : The Problem of Scarce Resources
The Problem of Scarce Resources Section A The problem of how health-care resources should be allocated or apportioned, so that they are distributed in both the most just and most efficient way, is not...
Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 4, Reading Passage 2 : The Nature and Aims of Archaeology
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40. which are based on Reading Passage 164. The Nature and Aims of Archaeology Archaeology is partly the discovery of treasures of the past, partly the...
Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 4, Reading Passage 1 : How much higher? How much faster?
How much higher? How much faster? — Limits to human sporting performance are not yet in sight — Since the early years of the twentieth century, when the International Athletic Federation began keeping records,...
Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 3, Reading Passage 3 : Obtaining Linguistic Data
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 163 below. Obtaining Linguistic Data A. Many procedures are available for obtaining data about a language. They...