IELTS READING – THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE S45AT3
IELTS READING S45AT3 THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular […]
IELTS READING – The Nature of Genius S43AT2
IELTS READING S43AT2 The Nature of Genius There has always been an interest in geniuses and prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens (= family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’, comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius was concerned with […]
IELTS READING – HOW DOES THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICK? S43AT3
IELTS READING S43AT3 HOW DOES THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICK? A. Our life span is restricted. Everyone accepts this as ‘biologically’ obvious. ‘Nothing lives forever!’ However, in this statement, we think of artificially produced, technical objects, products which are subjected to natural wear and tear during use. This leads to the result that at some time […]
IELTS READING – LAND OF THE RISING SUN S44AT1
IELTS READING S44AT1 LAND OF THE RISING SUN A. Japan has a significantly better record in terms of average mathematical attainment than England and Wales. Large sample international comparisons of pupils’ attainments since the 1960s have established that not only did Japanese pupils at age 13 have better scores of average attainment, Q6 but there was also […]