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 […]
IELTS READING – The rise of the agribots S8AT2
IELTS READING The rise of the agribots The use of robots and automation in the farming industry The next time you stand at the supermarket checkout, spare a thought for the farmers who helped fill your shopping basket as life is hard for them right now. This, in turn, inevitably means bigger grocery bills for […]