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Most people who have seen the Thames Barrier misunderstand what they are looking at. The gates do not drop from those steel shells — they lie flat on the riverbed and rotate upwards, and the shells are just housings for the machinery. Two questions depend on having read that carefully rather than having pictured it.
Passage 2 is the one to read twice. It argues that almost everything the public believes about crowd behaviour is wrong: people in emergencies help strangers and move too slowly rather than panicking, and most crowd disasters are physical events caused by density, not psychological ones.
Three passages, 40 questions. The flood that led to the Thames Barrier and how it works; what research shows about how crowds actually behave; and three specialists disagreeing about debris in Earth orbit. Includes note completion, True/False/Not Given, matching headings, sentence completion and matching statements to people.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Holding Back the Sea The barrier that protects London, and the flood that built it On the night of 31 January 1953, a combination of a deep depression over the North Sea, a high spring tide and sustained northerly winds produced a surge of water that overwhelmed coastal defences across eastern England and the Netherlands. More than two thousand people died. In England the water reached Canvey Island,…
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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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