by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 10, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A new study conducted for the World Bank by Murdoch University’s Institute for Science and Technology Policy (ISTP) has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars. The study compared the proportion of wealth poured into transport by...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 6, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
PASSAGE A. John Franklin (1786-1847) was the most famous vanisher of the Victorian era. He joined the Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14, and fought in the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar. When peace with the French broke out, he turned his attention to Arctic...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A. Three striking facts highlight the dramatic shift in recent years in the relative economic balance of “first-world” and “third-world” economies. Last year, according to our estimates, emerging economies produced slightly more than half of world output measured at...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
Mobiles are barred, but passengers can lap away on their laptops to their hearts’ content. Is one really safer than the other? In the US, a Congressional subcommittee grilled airline representatives and regulators about the issue last month. But the committee heard...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, IELTS Reading
Today they are everywhere. Production lines controlled by computers and operated by robots. There’s no chatter of assembly workers, just the whirr and click of machines. In the mid-1940s, the workerless factory was still the stuff of science fiction. There were no...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Nov 2, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A. We have long lived in an age where powerful images, catchy soundbites and too-good-to miss offers bombard us from every quarter. All around us the persuaders are at work. Occasionally their methods are unsubtle -the planting kiss on a baby’s head by a wannabe...