IELTS ACADEMIC READING PRACTICE TESTS (with answers)

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Hi everyone, Below I've shared all the Academic Reading Practice Tests (with Answers) from the IELTS booklets for you to Practice well and boost your band scores. Please leave a 'Thanks' if you find them useful.

1. Ancient artefacts in Norway's Glaciers ↗
2. Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence ↗
3. Changes in reading habits ↗
4. Roman tunnels ↗
5. Plant 'thermometer' measuring night-time heat ↗
6. Roman shipbuilding and navigation ↗
7. How to make wise decisions ↗
8. I contain multitudes ↗
9. The white horse of Uffington ↗
10. The future of work ↗
11. The step pyramid of Djoser ↗
12. Why we need to protect polar bears ↗
13. Environmental practices of big businesses ↗
14. Silbo Gomero - the 'whistle' language of the Canary Island ↗
15. The return of the huarango ↗
16. Why fairy tales are really scary tales ↗
17. The Desolenator: producing clean water ↗
18. Henry Moore (1898-1986) ↗
19. Having a laugh ↗
20. Should we try to bring extinct species back to life ↗
21. Could urban engineers learn from dance? ↗
22. What is exploration? ↗
23. Driverless cars ↗
24. Nutmeg - a valuable spice ↗
25. Chelsea Rochman - an ecologist ↗
26. Why zoos are good ↗
27. The secret of staying young ↗
28. The power of play ↗
29. Saving bugs to find new drugs ↗
30. The concept of intelligence ↗
31. Why companies should welcome disorder ↗
32. Back to the future of skyscraper design ↗
33. Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) ↗
34. Motivational factors and hospitality industry ↗
35. Bike-sharing schemes ↗
36. Book review ↗
37. Saving the soil ↗
38. Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship ↗
39. Whatever happened to the Harappan civilisation ↗
40. How baby talk gives infant brains a boost ↗
41. The coconut palm ↗
42. Making the most of trends ↗
43. Oxytocin ↗
44. Bringing cinnamon to Europe ↗
45. Artificial artists ↗
46. Why being bored is stimulating ↗
47. Case study: Tourism New Zealand Website ↗
48. UK companies need more effective board of directors ↗
49. Bring back the big cats ↗
50. The history of glass ↗

 

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51. Music and the emotions ↗
52. Intersection of health sciences and geography ↗
53. Flying tortoises ↗
54. The benefits of being bilingual ↗
55. The lost city ↗
56. The risks agriculture faces in developing countries ↗
57. What's the purpose of gaining language ↗
58. Collecting as hobby ↗
59. CORK ↗
60. This marvellous invention ↗
61. An introduction to film sound ↗
62. Research using twins ↗
63. How the other half thinks ↗
64. Great migrations ↗
65. The story of silk ↗
66. Neuroaesthetics ↗
67. What destroyed the civilisation of Easter Island? ↗
68. Raising the Mary Rose ↗
69. Reducing the effects of climate change ↗
70. The Falkirk Wheel ↗
71. The crop-growing skyscrapers ↗
72. When evolution runs backwards ↗
73. Second nature ↗
74. The megafires of California ↗
75. Beyond the blue horizon ↗
76. Autumn leaves ↗
77. The context, meaning and scope of tourism ↗
78. Museums of fine art and their public ↗
79. Gifted children & learning ↗
80. Tea and industrial revolution ↗
81. The psychology of innovation ↗
82. European transport systems (1990-2010) ↗
83. Stepwells ↗
84. The development of museums ↗
85. The young children's sense of identity ↗
86. The life and work of Marie Curie ↗
87. Information theory ↗
88. Tidal power ↗
89. Attitudes to language ↗
90. A neuroscientist reveals how to think differently ↗
91. Venus in transit ↗
92. Hearing impairment ↗
93. Is there anybody out there? ↗
94. William Henry Perkin ↗
95. Collecting ant specimens ↗
96. Biological control of the pests ↗
97. Land of the rising sum ↗
98. How does the biological clock tick? ↗
99. The nature of genius ↗
100. Striking back at lightning with lasers ↗

 

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101. The meaning and power of smell ↗
102. The little ice age ↗
103. Sheet glass manufacture - the float process ↗
104. Telepathy ↗
105. Air traffic control in the USA ↗
106. A chronicle of timekeeping ↗
107. Effects of noise ↗
108. Endless Harvest ↗
109. Pulling strings to build pyramids ↗
110. Forests - our natural heritage ↗
111. Population movements and genetics ↗
112. Ant intelligence ↗
113. Makete integrated rural transport project ↗
114. The true cost of food ↗
115. Why pagoda's don't fall down? ↗
116. Educating psyche ↗
117. Making every drop count ↗
118. Let's go bats ↗
119. Bullying ↗
120. Literate women make better mothers? ↗
121. Doctoring sales ↗
122. The search for anti-aging pill ↗
123. Motivating employees under adverse condition ↗
124. The Lumière brothers ↗
125. Numeration ↗
126. Greying population stays in the pink ↗
127. Advantages of public transport ↗
128. Climate change and the Inuit ↗
129. Delivering the goods ↗
130. Australia's sporting success ↗
131. Effects of light on plant and animal species ↗
132. Flawed beauty - the problem with toughened glass ↗
133. The impact of wilderness tourism ↗
134. The return of Artificial Intelligence ↗
135. Disappearing delta ↗
136. Early childhood education ↗
137. What's so funny ↗
138. Bakelite - the birth of modern plastics ↗
139. The truth about the environment ↗
140. Nature or nurture? ↗
141. Johnson's dictionary ↗
142. The problem of scarce resources ↗
143. The nature and aims of archaeology ↗
144. How much higher? How much faster? ↗
145. Obtaining linguistic data ↗
146. Volcanoes - earth-shattering news ↗
147. Micro-enterprise credit for street youth ↗
148. Play is a serious business ↗
149. Alternative medicine in Australia ↗
150. Lost for words ↗

 

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151. Visual symbols and the blind ↗
152. What do whales feel? ↗
153. Loss of tropical rainforests ↗
154. Measuring organisational performance ↗
155. Votes for women ↗
156. Air pollution (Port one) ↗
157. Highs and Lows ↗
158. Secrets of the forest ↗
159. The department of Ethnography ↗
160. The concept of Role theory ↗
161. The role of governments in environmental management ↗
162. A remarkable beetle ↗
163. The scientific method ↗
164. The risks of cigarette smoke ↗
165. The rocket - from East to West ↗
166. In search of the holy grail ↗
167. There is great concern in Europe ↗
168. Green wave washes over mainstream shopping ↗
169. The keyless society ↗
170. The motor car ↗
171. Absenteeism in nursing ↗
172. What is Port city? ↗
173. The discovery that language ↗
174. Implementing the cycle of success ↗
175. Children's thinking ↗
176. Changing our understanding of health ↗
177. Airports on water ↗
178. Population Viability Analysis ↗
179. Why some women cross the finish line ahead of men ↗
180. Glass - capturing the dance of light ↗
181. A workaholic economy ↗
182. Moles happy as homes go underground ↗
183. Spoken corpus comes to life ↗
184. Tourism ↗
185. Migratory beekeeping ↗
186. Right and left-handedness in humans ↗
187. Architecture - reaching for the sky ↗
188. Zoo conservation programmes ↗
189. A spark A flint - How fire leapt to life ↗