by Navita Thakur | Aug 14, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – The “Extinct” Grass in Britain You should spend about 30 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A The British grass interrupted brome was said to be extinct, just like the Dodo. Called interrupted brome because...
by Navita Thakur | Aug 12, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – The Forgotten Forest You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Found only in the Deep South of America, longleaf pine woodlands have dwindled to about 3 percent of their former range, but...
by Navita Thakur | Aug 11, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Classifying Societies You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Although humans have established many types of societies throughout history, sociologists and anthropologists tend to...
by Navita Thakur | Aug 11, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Morse Code You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 on the following pages. Morse code is being replaced by a new satellite-based system for sending dis-tress calls at sea. Its dots and dashes...
by Navita Thakur | Aug 11, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Thomas Young The Last True Know-It-All You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Thomas Young (1773-1829) contributed 63 articles to the Encyclopedia Britannica, including 46 biographical...
by Navita Thakur | Aug 10, 2020 | online Reading practice
READING PASSAGE 1 – The History of Pencil You should spend about 30 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1. The beginning of the story of pencils started with a lightning. Graphite, the main material for producing pencil, was discovered...
