by Navita Thakur | Oct 23, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Jargon You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A Jargon is a loaded word. One dictionary defines it, neatly and neutrally, as ‘the technical vocabulary or idiom of a special activity or...
by Navita Thakur | Oct 13, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Young Fashion Designer UK competition You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Read the text below and answer questions 1-7. Young Fashion Designer UK is an exciting national competition...
by Navita Thakur | Oct 12, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – California’s age of Megafires You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A There’s a reason fire squads now battling more than a dozen blazes in southern California are having such difficulty...
by Navita Thakur | Oct 12, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Organic farming and chemical fertilisers You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A The world’s population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people...
by Navita Thakur | Oct 9, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Natural Pesticide in India You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A A dramatic story about cotton farmers in India shows how destructive pesticides can be for people and the environment; and...
by Navita Thakur | Oct 9, 2020 | online Reading practice
Reading Passage 1 – Grey Workers You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A Given the speed at which their workers are growing greyer, employers know surprisingly little about how productive they are. The general...
