IELTS READING – Raising the Mary Rose S2AT1
IELTS READING Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed On Q2 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a sea battle off the coast of southern England in the area of water called the Solent, between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. Among the English vessels […]
IELTS READING – The Falkirk Wheel S1AT2
IELTS READING The Falkirk Wheel The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland is the world’s first and only rotating boat lift. Opened in 2002, it is central to the ambitious £84.5m Millennium Link project to restore navigability across Scotland by reconnecting the historic waterways of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals. Attempt full reading test…
IELTS READING – Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’ S3AT3
IELTS READING Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’ A Occasionally, in some difficult musical compositions, there are beautiful, but easy parts – parts so simple a Q35 beginner could play them. So it is with mathematics as well. There are some discoveries in advanced mathematics that do not depend on […]
IELTS READING – Reducing the Effects of Climate Change S1AT3
IELTS READING Reducing the Effects of Climate Change Mark Rowe reports on the increasingly ambitious geo-engineering projects being explored by scientists A. Such is our dependence on fossil fuels, and such is the volume of carbon dioxide already released into the atmosphere, that many experts agree that significant global warming is now inevitable. Attempt full […]