Reading Passage Set 5 — 50 IELTS reading practice tests; an illustrative student in an academic library.

IELTS READING · 50 PASSAGE TESTS

Reading Passage Set 5

Build your reading skills one passage at a time. Explore 50 passage-based practice tests drawn from IELTS Reading Passages 1–3.

Passage 1

Read for key information

Passage 2

Follow ideas and arguments

Passage 3

Interpret detailed meaning

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Reading 7-3.3 — European Forests: Challenges, Functions, and Policy Responses — MKS Education cover

Reading 7-4.1 — Pulling strings to build pyramids — MKS Education cover

Reading 7-4.2 — Endless Harvest — MKS Education cover

Reading 7-4.3 — EFFECTS OF NOISE — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-1.1 — AUSTRALIA'S SPORTING SUCCESS — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-1.2 — DELIVERING THE GOODS — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-1.3 — Climate Change and the Inuit — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-2.1 — Advantages of public transport — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-2.2 — GREYING POPULATION STAYS IN THE PINK — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-2.3 — Numeration — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-3.1 — The Evolution and Influence of Cinema — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-3.2 — Motivating Employees under Adverse Conditions — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-3.3 — The Search for the Anti-aging Pill — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-4.1 — Doctoring sales — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-4.2 — Do literate women make better mothers? — MKS Education cover

Reading 6-4.3 — Bullying: From Crisis Management to Prevention — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-1.1 — Johnson's Dictionary — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-1.2 — Nature or Nurture? — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-1.3 — The Truth about the Environment — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-2.1 — BAKELITE — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-2.2 — What's so funny? — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-2.3 — The Birth of Scientific English — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-3.1 — Early Childhood Education — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-3.2 — Disappearing Delta — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-3.3 — The Return of Artificial Intelligence — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-4.1 — The Impact of Wilderness Tourism — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-4.2 — Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass — MKS Education cover

Reading 5-4.3 — The effects of light on plant and animal species — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-1.1 — Children's ideas about the rainforests — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-1.2 — What Do Whales Feel? — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-1.3 — Visual Symbols and the Blind — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-2.1 — Lost for Words — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-2.2 — Alternative Medicine in Australia — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-2.3 — Play is a Serious Business — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-3.1 — Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-3.2 — Volcanoes - Earth-Shattering News — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-3.3 — Obtaining Linguistic Data — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-4.1 — How Much Higher? How Much Faster? — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-4.2 — The Nature and Aims of Archaeology — MKS Education cover

Reading 4-4.3 — The Problem of Scarce Resources — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-1.1 — THE ROCKET - FROM EAST TO WEST — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-1.2 — The Risks of Cigarette Smoke — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-1.3 — THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-2.1 — A Remarkable Beetle — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-2.2 — Environmental management — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-2.3 — THE CONCEPT OF ROLE THEORY — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-3.1 — THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-3.2 — Secrets of the Forest — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-3.3 — HIGHS & LOWS — MKS Education cover

Reading 3-4.1 — Urban air pollution — MKS Education cover