IELTS READING – THE LITTLE ICE AGE S42AT2
IELTS READING S42AT2 THE LITTLE ICE AGE A. This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other Q20 climatic shifts, but, before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate – as opposed to weather – as something unchanging, yet humanity has been […]
IELTS READING – The meaning and power of smell S42AT3
IELTS READING S42AT3 The meaning and power of smell The sense of smell, or olfaction, is powerful. Odours affect us on a physical, psychological and social level. For the most part, however, we breathe in the aromas which surround us without being consciously aware of their importance to us. Q33 It is only when the faculty […]
IELTS READING – AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE USA S41AT2
IELTS READING S41AT2 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE USA A. An accident that occurred in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956 resulted in the establishment of Q14 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to regulate and oversee the operation of aircraft in the skies over the United States, which were becoming quite congested. The resulting structure […]
IELTS READING – Endless Harvest S40AT2
IELTS READING S40AT1 Endless Harvest More than two hundred years ago, Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the north. Q14 The islands’ native inhabitants called this land mass Aleyska – the ‘Great Land’; today, we […]