by Navita Thakur | Feb 27, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
What Do Whales Feel? Some of the senses that we and other terrestrial mammals take for granted are either reduced or absent in cetaceans or fail to function well in water. For example, it appears from their brain structure that toothed species are unable to smell....
by Navita Thakur | Feb 26, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
HIGHS and LOWS Hormone levels – and hence our moods -may be affected by the weather. Gloomy weather can cause depression, but sunshine appears to raise the spirits. In Britain, for example, the dull weather of winter drastically cuts down the amount of sunlight that...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 25, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
The Risks of Cigarette Smoke Discovered in the early 1800s and named ‘nicotianine’, the oily essence now called nicotine is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine, however, is only a small component of cigarette smoke, which contains more than 4,700 chemical...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 25, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
THE ROCKET – FROM EAST TO WEST A The concept of the rocket, or rather the mechanism behind the idea of propelling an object into the air, has been around for well over two thousand years. However, it wasn’t until the discovery of the reaction principle, which was the...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
The Return of Artificial Intelligence It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such as problem-solving and pattern-recognition. A After years in the wilderness, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (Al) seems poised to make a...
by Navita Thakur | Feb 24, 2020 | IELTS Reading Practice
Climate Change and the Inuit The threat posed by climate change in the Arctic and the problems faced by Canada’s Inuit people A Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps...
