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Ielts Reading Test 1

The document contains information about three different passages. The first passage describes the architectural features of the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, including that it is oriented towards the west and once contained a statue of Vishnu. The second passage discusses the Atacama Desert in Chile, noting that it receives around 3000 hours of sun per year and that plants there store water in their leaves to survive. The third passage outlines the history of tea trading by the British East India Company, including how it began competing with the Portuguese and established trade routes for exporting exotic textiles and tea.

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Ielts Reading Test 1

The document contains information about three different passages. The first passage describes the architectural features of the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, including that it is oriented towards the west and once contained a statue of Vishnu. The second passage discusses the Atacama Desert in Chile, noting that it receives around 3000 hours of sun per year and that plants there store water in their leaves to survive. The third passage outlines the history of tea trading by the British East India Company, including how it began competing with the Portuguese and established trade routes for exporting exotic textiles and tea.

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IELTS READING TEST 1

A. READING PASSAGE 1

1. west.
 “…the temple is oriented towards the west.”
2. statue of Vishnu
 “…through the courtyards to the final main tower, which once contained a
statue of Vishnu…”
3. rotted away
 “The pegs were then sawn off and have since rotted away”
4. Contemplate
 “Once at the central tower…in which to comtemplate the symetry…”

5. moat
 “Angkor Wat is surrounded by a moat…”
6. sandstone causeaway
 “…a sandstone causeaway crosses the moat…”
7. quarried
 “…which Angkor Wat was built were quarried more than 50km away…”
8. Cranes
 “…an unbelievable feat given the lack of cranes anf trucks…”

9. breathtaking
 “It is the largest and undoubted ly the most breathtaking of …”
10. GACP
 “…they are now being restored by the team of German…”
11. spatial universe
 “…Angkor Wat also replicates the spatial universe…”
12. standstone
 “…3,25m in height and hewn from a single book of sandstone.”
13. pilgrimate
 “Once at the central tower, the pilgrimate is complete…”
B. READING PASSAGE 2

14. NG
15. T
 “…a vast expanse of solar panels … 3000 hours of sun received…”
16. T
 “store water in their leaves, shelter from the sun, need to be salt-resistant”
17. NG
18. F
 “…use the desert as a huntig ground.”

19. C
 “With high levels of salinity in the soil, …need to be salt-resistant.”
20. H
 “…the landscape has been little changed by agriculture…”
21. A
 “… trumpeter finches, a common resident…hide themselves away in the
numerous rocky crevices…”
22. F
 “Another feature is piping…creating an underground pipe…created the
Swiss cheese effect”
23. D
 “Another is the winter-flowering toadflax…release their vanilla scent…”

24.C
 “Although the desert may look like it has scare vegetation, it in fact
harbours a variety…”
25. 4 days
 “With its annual rainfall of 240mm concentrated in no more than four days
a year…”
26. Mammals
 “…mammals are less common with around…, the most important being
the Algeria hedgehog.”
C. READING PASSAGE 3
27. Portugese
 “The company soon began competing with the Portugese…”
28. exotic textiles
 “…found a rich source os exotic textiles…exported back to Britain…”
29. Charles II
 “…Charles II was restored…the company ingratiated itself with him…”
30. Charles II
 “When she married Charles…tea gradually became a fashionable
drink…”
31. William Pitt
 “…until William Pitt the Younger became the Prime Minister…slashed the
tax on tea so dramatically…”
32. increase profits
 “Needing to increase profits…to export direct to America…”
33. Native Americans
 “…when a mass of townpeople, dressed as Native Americans…”

34. G
 “To satisfy the demand of the less wealthy, an enormous amount of tea was
smuggled in…”
35. B
36. A
 “…the tea should not be brought ashore nor the duty on it paid”
37. D
 “The Americans were outtraged, many considered such British-imposed
taxes illegal.”

38. T
 “…the British was crucial to the history of the tea trade.”
39.T
 “…set up in Netherlands, Denmark and France.”
40. NG

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