IELTS READING – IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? S45AT2
IELTS READING S45AT2 IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity for centuries, but we may now stand poised on the brink of the answer to that question, as we search for radio signals from other intelligent civilizations. This search […]
IELTS READING – William Henry Perkin S45AT1
IELTS READING S45AT1 William Henry Perkin The man who invented synthetic dyes William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, sciences. photography, and engineering. But it was a chance stumbling upon a run-down, yet functional, laboratory in his late grandfather’s […]
IELTS READING – THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE S45AT3
IELTS READING S45AT3 THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular […]
IELTS READING – The Nature of Genius S43AT2
IELTS READING S43AT2 The Nature of Genius There has always been an interest in geniuses and prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens (= family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’, comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius was concerned with […]