IELTS READING – Fatal Attraction S11AT2
IELTS READING Fatal Attraction Evolutionist Charles Darwin first marvelled at flesh-eating plants in the mid-19th century. Today, biologists, using 21st-century tools to study cells and DNA, are beginning to understand how these plants hunt, eat and digest – and how such bizarre adaptations arose in the first place. A. The leaves of the Venus flytrap […]
IELTS READING – Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? S10AT1
IELTS READING Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework. A. At Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a suburb west of Helsinki, Kari Louhivuori, the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a recent immigrant, was falling behind, resisting […]
IELTS READING – The Hollywood Film Industry S12AT2
IELTS READING The Hollywood Film Industry A. This chapter examines Q14 the ‘Golden Age’ of the Hollywood film studio system and explores how a particular kind of filmmaking developed during this period in US film history. It also focuses on the two key elements which influenced the emergence of the classic Hollywood studio system: the […]
IELTS READING – THE SWIFTER S10AT3
IELTS READING THE SWIFTER For a fascinating tale about creativity, look at a cleaning product called the Swiffer and how it came about, urges writer Jonah Lehrer. In the story of the Swiffer, he argues, we have the key elements in producing breakthrough ideas: frustration, moments of insight and sheer hard work. The story starts […]