IELTS READING – Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project S38AT3
IELTS READING S38AT3 Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project Section A The disappointing results of many conventional road transport projects in Africa led some experts to rethink the strategy by which rural transport problems were to be tackled at the beginning of the 1980s. A request for help in improving the availability of transport within the […]
IELTS READING – The True Cost of Food S38AT2
IELTS READING S38AT2 The True Cost of Food A. For more than forty years the cost of food has been rising. It has now reached a point where a growing number of people believe that it is far too high and that bringing it down will be one of the great challenges of the twenty-first […]
IELTS READING – Why pagodas don’t fall down S38AT1
IELTS READING S38AT1 Why pagodas don’t fall down In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how have Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings – 500 or so wooden pagodas – remained standing for centuries? Q1 Records show that only two have collapsed during the past 1400 years. Those that have disappeared were […]
MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT – S37AT2
IELTS READING S37AT2 MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT A. Q14 The history of human civilization is entwined with the history of ways we have learned to manipulate water resources. As towns gradually expanded, water was brought from increasingly remote sources, leading to sophisticated engineering efforts such as dams and aqueducts. Q14 At the height of the Roman Empire, […]