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Difficulty: Hard - Suitable for: 7+
This test rewards candidates who are comfortable using two kinds of evidence at once. The volcano passage combines diaries with tree rings and ice cores because eyewitness records can preserve valuable detail and still be exaggerated. Treating historical writing as either completely reliable or completely useless will lead you into the distractors.
Translation makes Passage 2 harder than its vocabulary suggests. A cautious scientific claim can become stronger when uncertainty markers disappear, and a technically correct word may still carry a different classification in another research tradition. Almost every correct answer is a paraphrase of a relationship rather than a repeated keyword.
An advanced IELTS Academic Reading test on historical records of volcanic eruptions, how translation changes scientific findings, and competing approaches to managed coastal retreat. Three passages, 40 questions, embedded answers and a full mix of completion, TFNG, headings, multi-select, matching and inference questions.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Paper Trail of a Volcano How old diaries improved eruption science Before the modern system, scientists relied mainly on recent instruments and geological deposits. 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…
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