IELTS READING – Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers S43AT1
IELTS READING S43AT1 Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round of golf can become a terrifying dice with death […]
IELTS READING – Biological control of pests S44AT2
IELTS READING S44AT2 Biological control of pests The continuous and reckless use of synthetic chemicals for the control of pests which pose a threat to agricultural crops and human health is proving to be counter-productive. Q14 Apart from engendering widespread ecological disorders, pesticides have contributed to the emergence of a new breed of chemical-resistant, highly lethal […]
IELTS READING – Telepathy S41AT3
IELTS READING S41AT3 Telepathy Can human beings communicate by thought alone? For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics. Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading universities and research institutes around the world have risked the derision of sceptical […]
IELTS READING – Sheet glass manufacture: the float process S42AT1
IELTS READING S42AT1 Sheet glass manufacture: the float process Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime. When heated to about 1500 degrees Celsius (°C) this becomes a molten mass that hardens when slowly cooled. The first successful […]