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Free IELTS Academic Reading Practice Tests
30 tests in the computer-delivered format. Each page has Passage 1 with its questions and the answers with explanations.
Take it like the real test. Do this Reading passage on the computer-delivered test screen, with the timer, highlighting and instant marking. Free, no sign-up.
Start the free Reading passage- Test 1The return of the sea otter
- Test 2The long road to the modern bicycle
- Test 3Building with bamboo
- Test 4How tea conquered Britain
- Test 5Living roofs
- Test 6The steel box
- Test 7Saving the kakapo
- Test 8Mangroves: forests between land and sea
- Test 9The making of the pencil
- Test 10Built for the desert: the camel
- Test 11A brief history of the umbrella
- Test 12Inside a modern landfill
- Test 13Antarctic krill
- Test 14The first lighthouses
- Test 15The axolotl
- Test 16The birth of paper money
- Test 17The hedgehog in decline
- Test 18A short history of salt
- Test 19The roads of Rome
- Test 20The great journey of the monarch
- Test 21Cutting through a continent
- Test 22Saving seeds for the future
- Test 23The birth of the London Underground
- Test 24Built for slowness: the life of the sloth
- Test 25Lines of information: the story of the barcode
- Test 26The hidden layers of a summer lake
- Test 27The making of silk
- Test 28Harvesting water from fog
- Test 29Born of fire
- Test 30The rise of the crossword