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Simon 128 reading exercises
IELTS
reading exercises
Compiled by
Ulugbek Yusupov(@Actual IELTS Test)128 READING EXERCISES128
IELTS
reading exercises
Compiled by
Ulugbek Yusupov
Created by
Proper English School
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Choose the best answer, A, B or C, for the two questions below.
1. What happened in the 7th century?
A) The English language was first established in Britain.
B) The first oral stories in Old English were told.
C) The earliest examples of creative writing in Old English come from that time.
2. Old English is…
A) related to the French language.
B) more easily understood by German speakers than English speakers.
C) largely indecipherable to English speakers nowadays.
Exercise 33
IELTS Reading: fill the gaps
Read the following excerpt from a newspaper article about the effects of humans on
wild animals.
Humans are driving mammals including deer, tigers and bears to hide under the cover of
darkness, jeopardising the health of the creatures that are only supposed to be active by
day, new research his found. The presence of people can instil strong feelings of fear in
animals and as human activities now cover 75 per cent of the land, we are becoming
increasingly harder to avoid. Unable to escape during the day, mammals are forced to
emerge during the night.
A team led by Kaitlyn Gaynor at the University of California, Berkeley arrived at this
conclusion after analysing nearly 80 studies from six continents that monitored the activity
of various mammals using GPS trackers and motion-activated cameras. The scientists
used this data to assess the night time antics of the animals during periods of low and high
human disturbance.
Such disturbances ranged from relatively harmless activities like hiking to overtly
destructive ones like hunting, as well as larger scale problems like farming and road
construction. Overall, the researchers concluded that from beavers to lions, there was an
increase in nocturnal behaviour when humans were in the vicinity.
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