IELTS preparation · Academic Reading

Reading study catalog

Study one passage at a time. Every published Cambridge-style Reading passage, browsable by its position in the test or by the question types it uses.

Question-type drills need no account. Starting a passage needs a free one, so the attempt lands in your history.

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22 passages

  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 1 · Reading Mock Test 2

    The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep

    Passage 2
    13 questionsSleep science history
    • Matching headings · 5
    • Matching features · 5
    • Summary completion · 3
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 1 · Reading Mock Test 3

    Keeping the fun in funfairs

    Passage 3
    13 questionsAmusement ride engineering
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Sentence completion · 4
    • Yes no not given · 3
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 1 · Reading Mock Test 5

    Asian Space Satellite Technology

    Passage 3
    13 questionsAsian space technology
    • Matching headings · 5
    • Matching features · 4
    • True false not given · 4
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 2 · Reading Mock Test 10

    Paper or Computer?

    Passage 3
    14 questionsWorkplace document technology
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Summary completion · 4
    • Multiple choice single · 4
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 2 · Reading Mock Test 8

    Fossil files "The Paleobiology Database"

    Passage 2
    12 questionsFossil biodiversity research
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Matching features · 3
    • Multiple choice multi · 1
    • Multiple choice single · 2
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 2 · Reading Mock Test 9

    How should reading be taught?

    Passage 3
    14 questionsReading instruction research
    • Matching headings · 5
    • True false not given · 5
    • Matching features · 4
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 3 · Reading Mock Test 11

    Putting the brakes on climate change

    Passage 3
    14 questionsHydrogen fuel cell vehicles
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Sentence completion · 4
    • True false not given · 4
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 3 · Reading Mock Test 12

    Save Endangered Language

    Passage 3
    14 questionsEndangered language preservation
    • Matching headings · 7
    • Matching features · 5
    • Multiple choice single · 2
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 3 · Reading Mock Test 15

    The reconstruction of community in Talbot Park, Auckland

    Passage 2
    13 questionsUrban housing renewal
    • Matching headings · 7
    • Matching features · 3
    • Summary completion · 3
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 4 · Reading Mock Test 17

    The evolutional mystery: Crocodile survives

    Passage 2
    13 questionsCrocodilian evolutionary biology
    • Matching headings · 7
    • Summary completion · 6
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 4 · Reading Mock Test 19

    Music: Language We All Speak

    Passage 3
    14 questionsMusic and neuroscience
    • Matching headings · 5
    • Matching features · 7
    • Multiple choice single · 2
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 4 · Reading Mock Test 20

    Communicating Conflict!

    Passage 3
    14 questionsWorkplace communication styles
    • Matching headings · 8
    • True false not given · 5
    • Multiple choice single · 1
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 5 · Reading Mock Test 21

    Griffith and American films

    Passage 2
    13 questionsEarly american film industry
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Matching features · 4
    • Multiple choice single · 3
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 5 · Reading Mock Test 22

    Western Immigration of Canada

    Passage 2
    13 questionsCanadian prairie settlement history
    • Matching headings · 7
    • Summary completion · 6
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 5 · Reading Mock Test 25

    Communicating Styles and Conflict

    Passage 3
    14 questionsWorkplace communication styles
    • Matching headings · 8
    • True false not given · 5
    • Multiple choice single · 1
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 6 · Reading Mock Test 26

    High Speed Photography

    Passage 3
    14 questionsHigh speed and time lapse photography
    • Matching features · 4
    • Summary completion · 5
    • Matching headings · 5
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 6 · Reading Mock Test 29

    Blue-footed Boobies

    Passage 1
    13 questionsBlue footed booby biology
    • Matching headings · 6
    • True false not given · 3
    • Summary completion · 4
  • Cambridge Mock Tests · Volume 6 · Reading Mock Test 29

    Using Mathematics to Secure Our Money

    Passage 3
    14 questionsCryptography and payment security
    • Matching headings · 6
    • Note completion · 4
    • Yes no not given · 4