ielts reading recent actual tests

List of Reading Passages

Test 1

William Gilbert and Magnestism

The 2003 Heatwave

Amateur Naturalists

Test 2

How to Spot a Liar?

Being Left-handed in a Right-handed World

What is a Dinosaur?

Test 3

Learning by Examples

A New Ice Age

The Fruit Book

Test 4

The Mozart Effect

The Ant and The Mandarin

Music: Language We All Speak

Test 5

Wonder Plant

Children’s Literature

Talc Powder

Test 6

The Sweet Scent of Success

Mrs. Carlill and the Carbolic Smoke Ball

Communicating Styles and Conflict

Test 7

New Zealand Seaweed

Optimism and Health

The Columbian Exchange

Test 8

Going Bananas

Coastal Archaeology of Britain

Travel Books