IELTS Reading Test AC

Start testing yourself with the cambridge reading tests beginning from Cambridge IELTS 13.

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton A Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Lincolnshire, England. The son of a farmer, who died three months before he…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. How we manage the land on Earth Overpopulation, climate change, mass migration, farming issues and the use of natural resources are all affecting our relationship with terra firma, and it has never been more complicated. It is increasingly looking like Earth’s land is being overlooked rather than…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Cathy Freeman – Australian’s track queen A Runner Cathy Freeman is the first Aborigine, the name given to indigenous Australians, ever to compete in the Olympics, and the first to wave the Aboriginal flag at a sporting event. Freeman lit the Olympic flame at the 2000 Olympics…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Sending money homethe economics of migrant remittances A Every year millions of migrants travel vast distances using borrowed money for their airfares and taking little or no cash with them. They seek a decent job to support themselves with money left over that they can send home to…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. The Phoenicians: an almost forgotten people The Phoenicians inhabited the region of modern Lebanon and Syria from about 3000 BC. They became the greatest traders of the pre-classical world, and were the first people to establish a large colonial network. Both of these activities were based on…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. The Discovery of Penicillin A The Scottish bacteriologist Dr Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) is credited with the discovery of penicillin in London in 1928. He had been working at St Mary’s Hospital on the bacteriology of septic wounds. As a medic during World War I, he had witnessed the…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1. The Hidden Histories of Exploration Exhibition A We have all heard tales of lone, heroic explorers, but what about the local individuals who guided and protected European explorers in many different parts…

Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”– Rudyard Kipling, The Law for the Wolves A wolf pack is an extremely…