by Navita Thakur | Jun 11, 2021 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – SAVE THE TURTLES A. Leatherback turtles follow the general sea turtle body plan of having a large, flattened, round body with two pairs of very large flippers and a short tail. Like other sea turtles, the leatherback’s flattened forelimbs are...
by Navita Thakur | Jun 10, 2021 | online Reading practice
READING PASSAGE 1 – Traditional Farming System in Africa You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A By tradition land in Luapula is not owned by individuals, but as in many other parts of Africa is allocated...
by Navita Thakur | Jun 10, 2021 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Radio Automation forerunner of the integrated circuit Today they are everywhere. Production lines controlled by computers and operated by robots. There’s no chatter of assembly workers, just the whirr and click of machines. In the mid-1940s,...
by Navita Thakur | Jun 10, 2021 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – The Origin of Writing Writing was first invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia before 3,000 BC. It was also independently invented in Meso-America before 600 BC and probably independently invented in China before 1,300 BC. It may...
by Navita Thakur | Jun 9, 2021 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Animal minds: Parrot Alex You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University did something very bold. At a time when animals...
by Navita Thakur | Jun 9, 2021 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Terminated Dinosaur Era A. The age of dinosaurs, which ended with the cataclysmic bang of a meteor impact 65 million years ago, may also have begun with one. Researchers found recently the first direct, though tentative, geological evidence...
