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This is the hardest reading test in our set, and the difficulty is in the paraphrasing rather than the vocabulary. Passage 1 makes a distinction most readers miss on first pass: languages are usually lost through *shift*, not through the death of speakers, and a community can be growing while its language disappears. Three questions depend on holding that distinction.
Passage 3 is about automated systems in creative work, and it is the most current thing we have written. One of the three specialists refuses to give advice at all, on the grounds that the last round of confident advice — learn to code, the creative work is safe — was exactly wrong. Question 40 turns on whether you noticed she was declining rather than answering.
Three passages, 40 questions at the upper end of Academic Reading difficulty. How languages disappear and what fails to save them; what measurement has revealed about buildings and the people inside them; and three specialists disagreeing about machines in creative industries. Recommended for candidates already scoring 6.5 and above.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Last Speakers What happens when a language runs out of people There are roughly seven thousand languages spoken today, and linguists broadly agree that a large proportion will not survive the century. The figures vary because the definitions do — where a dialect ends and a language begins is a genuinely contested question — but the direction is not disputed. Around half of all languages are spoken…
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It is an original practice test written to the same format, question types and timing as the official IELTS reading paper. It is not a past paper.
Allow 60 minutes, the same as the real exam. Practising under time pressure is most of the value.
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