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...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Nov 1, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A. Our mother may have told you the secret to getting what you ask for was to say please. The reality is rather more surprising. Adam Dudding talks to a psychologist who has made a life’s work from the science of persuasion. Some scientists peer at things through...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Oct 14, 2020 | Academic Reading Test, Grammar, IELTS Reading
The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park’s mountains down to the sea. They also include the Botanical Gardens,...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Oct 14, 2020 | Academic Reading Test, Grammar, IELTS Reading
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Oct 12, 2020 | Academic Reading Test, Grammar, IELTS Reading
This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula. Throughout its nearly 1,000-year history, different peoples have left their mark on the city. The Maya and Toltec vision of the world and the universe is revealed in their stone monuments...
