by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
Greying population stays in the pink Elderly people are growing healthier, happier and more independent, say American scientists. The results of a 14-year study to be announced later this month reveal that the diseases associated with old age are afflicting fewer and...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
Advantages of public transport A new study conducted for the World Bank by Murdoch University’s Institute for Science and Technology Policy (ISTP) has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars. The study compared the proportion of wealth...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
Delivering The Goods The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a revolution in the business of moving freight A International trade is growing at a startling pace. While the global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% a year, the volume of trade...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
The effects of light on plant and animal species Light is important to organisms for two different reasons. Firstly it Is used as a cue for the timing of daily and seasonal rhythms in both plants and animals, and secondly it is used to assist growth in plants....
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell from its frame. When...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
The Impact of Wilderness Tourism A The market for tourism In remote areas is booming as never before. Countries ail across the world are actively promoting their ‘wilderness’ regions – such as mountains, Arctic lands, deserts, small islands and wetlands –...
