Why Risks Can Go Wrong Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop Human intuition is a bad guide to handling risk A People make terrible decisions about the future. The evidence is all around, from their investments in the stock markets to...
What Are You Laughing At? Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop A We like to think that laughing is the height of human sophistication. Our big brains let us see the humour in a strategically positioned pun, an unexpected plot twist or a...
The Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity for centuries, but we may now stand poised on the brink of the answer to that...
The Scientific Method Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop A ‘Hypotheses,’ said Medawar in 1964, ‘are imaginative and inspirational in character’; they are ‘adventures of the mind’. He was arguing in favour of the position taken by Karl...
The Rufous Hare-Wallaby Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop The Rufous Hare-Wallaby is a species of Australian kangaroo, usually known by its Aboriginal name, ‘mala’. At one time, there may have been as many as ten million of these...
The Romantic Poets Reading Answer IELTS Academic Reading Passage 20:00 Start Pause Stop One of the most evocative eras in the history of poetry must surely be that of the Romantic Movement. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a group of poets...