IELTS READING – The Phoenicians: an almost forgotten people S12AT1
IELTS READING 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 Q1 seafaring, an ability the Phoenicians […]
IELTS READING – Want to be friends? S11AT3
IELTS READING Want to be friends? A. For many hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, online networking has become enmeshed in our daily lives. However, it is a decades-old insight from a study of traditional social networks that best illuminates one of the most important aspects of today’s online networking. In 1973 sociologist Mark Granovetter […]
IELTS READING – The Hidden Histories of Exploration Exhibition S11AT1
IELTS READING 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 of the globe? Or the go-betweens – including interpreters and traders – who translated the needs and demands of explorers into […]
IELTS READING – SCIENCE IN SPACE S9AT3
IELTS READING SCIENCE IN SPACE How will NASA transform the International Space Station from a building site into a cutting-edge research laboratory? A premier, world-class laboratory in low Earth orbit. That was how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration agency (NASA) sold the International Space Station (ISS) to the US Congress in 2001. Q27 Today […]