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Difficulty: Upper-intermediate - Suitable for: 6 to 7
Reflective roofs sound like a straightforward cooling solution until the final limitation: performance varies with climate, insulation and the height of surrounding buildings. The passage does not reject the coatings, but it does reject one universal temperature claim.
The citizen-science passage contains a classic IELTS contrast. More observations extend geographical and historical coverage, yet a large dataset can still be biased when records cluster around accessible and popular places. *Large* is not a synonym for *representative*.
Three full Academic passages on reflective roofing in hot cities, strengths and limitations of citizen science, and the effect of workplace noise on performance. Includes one-word completion, True/False/Not Given, headings, choose-two questions, matching specialists, sentence endings and inference-based multiple choice.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Ice Road Across the Desert How reflective roofs cool hot cities Before the modern system, dark roofs absorbed solar energy throughout the day. This arrangement was workable at a small scale, but it became increasingly inefficient as networks expanded. Records were inconsistent, and decisions made in one place did not always fit conditions elsewhere. People close to the process often treated these mismatches as isolated local errors,…
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