IELTS REDAING – Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass S32AT2
IELTS READING S32AT2 Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell from its frame. When fragments were analysed by […]
IELTS READING – Disappearing Delta S31AT2
IELTS READING S31AT2 Disappearing Delta A. The fertile land of the Nile delta is being eroded along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast at an astounding rate, in some parts estimated at 100 metres per year. Q18 In the past, land scoured away from the coastline by the currents of the Mediterranean Sea used to be replaced by sediment brought […]
IELTS READING – Early Childhood Education S31AT1
IELTS READING S31AT1 Early Childhood Education New Zealand’s National Party spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith, recently visited the US and Britain. Here he reports on the findings of his trip and what they could mean for New Zealand’s education policy A. ’Education To Be More’ was published last August. It was the report of the […]
The Return of Artificial Intelligence S31AT3
IELTS READING S31AT3 The Return of Artificial Intelligence It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such as problem-solving and pattern recognition. A. Q29 After years in the wilderness, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (Al) seems poised to make a comeback. Al was big in the 1980s but vanished in the 1990s. It […]