ENSpeak the language you have been studying.
DESprich die Sprache, die du gelernt hast.
ESHabla el idioma que has estudiado.
ARتكلم اللغة التي درستها.
HIजो भाषा पढ़ी है, उसे बोलो।
URوہ زبان بولو جو سیکھی ہے۔
ZH说出你学过的那门语言。
PTFale o idioma que você estudou.
FRParle la langue que tu as étudiée.
JA勉強してきた言語を話そう。
ENSpeak the language you have been studying.
DESprich die Sprache, die du gelernt hast.
ESHabla el idioma que has estudiado.
ARتكلم اللغة التي درستها.
HIजो भाषा पढ़ी है, उसे बोलो।
URوہ زبان بولو جو سیکھی ہے۔
ZH说出你学过的那门语言。
PTFale o idioma que você estudou.
FRParle la langue que tu as étudiée.
JA勉強してきた言語を話そう。
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  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDInventionsHistoryTechnology
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 1

    1. The Humble Pencil
    2. The Urban Heat Island
    3. The Value of Boredom
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDAnimalsHistoryArchaeology
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 2

    1. Keeping Bees: A Partnership Thousands of Years Old
    2. Turning Seawater into Drinking Water
    3. Does Speaking Two Languages Make You Smarter?
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDTransportHistoryTechnology
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 3

    1. Lights on the Rocks
    2. Sleep and Memory
    3. Is the Four-Day Week the Future of Work?
  • IELTS ACADEMICHARDERFood & FarmingHistoryArchaeology
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 4

    1. From Bean to Bar
    2. Why Coral Reefs Turn White
    3. The Power and Limits of the Nudge
  • IELTS ACADEMICHARDERInventionsHistoryTransport
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 5

    1. Two Wheels: The Evolution of the Bicycle
    2. The Alien Intelligence of the Octopus
    3. The Puzzle of the Placebo
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDInventionsHistoryEarth & Geography
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 6

    1. The Long Journey of Paper
    2. Reading the Ice
    3. Music and the Mind
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERHistoryBusiness & EconomicsTransport
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 7

    1. The Roads That Silk Built
    2. Farming Upwards
    3. Page Versus Screen
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERInventionsScienceHistory
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 8

    1. Shaping Glass
    2. The Monarch's Long Journey
    3. Playing to Learn?
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDHealthHistoryArchitecture & Cities
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 9

    1. Beneath the Streets of London
    2. Listening to Volcanoes
    3. The Crowd in the Laboratory
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERFood & FarmingHistoryPlants & Nature
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 10

    1. The Story of Tea
    2. Harvesting the Wind
    3. When a Language Falls Silent
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDHealthSciencePlants & Nature
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 11

    1. The Mould That Changed Medicine
    2. Guardians of the Kelp
    3. The Office and the City
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDEarth & GeographyHistoryAnimals
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 12

    1. Drawing the World
    2. Finding the Way Home
    3. The Economics of Happiness
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDPlants & NatureHistorySpace
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 13

    1. The Story of Natural Rubber
    2. Worlds Beyond the Sun
    3. The Pen and the Keyboard
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDHistoryFood & FarmingEarth & Geography
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 14

    1. Salt: A Humble Mineral
    2. From Wolf to Dog
    3. Rethinking the Open-Plan Office
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDInventionsHistoryEnvironment
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 15

    1. The Printing Revolution
    2. The Plastic in Everything
    3. Does Creativity Fade with Age?
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDFood & FarmingHistoryBusiness & Economics
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 16

    1. The Journey of Coffee
    2. The Toughest Animals on Earth?
    3. Whose Heritage?
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERTransportHistoryTechnology
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 17

    1. Lifting Boats: Canals and Locks
    2. Forests Between the Tides
    3. Rethinking Willpower
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDInventionsArchitecture & CitiesHistory
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 18

    1. The Story of Concrete
    2. Hunting with Sound
    3. Selling to Children
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDBusiness & EconomicsHistoryTransport
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 19

    1. Selling Winter: The Ice Trade
    2. The Hidden Workforce Beneath Our Feet
    3. Too Many Visitors?
  • IELTS ACADEMICHARDERInventionsHistoryTransport
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 20

    1. Finding Longitude: The Marine Chronometer
    2. The Resistance Problem
    3. The Case for Risky Play
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDFood & FarmingScienceHistory
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 21

    1. Milk, Microbes and Time: How Cheese Is Made
    2. When Grasshoppers Become Locusts
    3. News in the Age of the Feed
  • IELTS ACADEMICSTANDARDArchaeologyHistoryArchitecture & Cities
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 22

    1. The Builders of Stonehenge
    2. Talking to Elephants
    3. Money for Everyone?
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERInventionsTechnologyHistory
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 23

    1. Lightning Messages
    2. Defending the Planet
    3. The Myth of Learning Styles
  • IELTS ACADEMICEASIERHistoryEarth & GeographyAnimals
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    Academic Reading Practice Test 24

    1. The Race to the South Pole
    2. The Return of the Wolf
    3. Will Machines Take Our Jobs?

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The IELTS Reading format

IELTS Academic Reading has 3 sections and 40 questions, with 60 minutes to complete them. The passages total 2,150–2,750 words and come from books, journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources written for a non-specialist reader. Every Sprechify test follows this structure. (Source: IELTS.org)

All 11 question types you will practise

Multiple choice
Pick one answer from four options, or choose two or three letters from a longer list.
True / False / Not Given
Decide whether a statement agrees with the information in the passage, contradicts it, or isn't covered at all.
Yes / No / Not Given
The same idea as True/False/Not Given, but about the writer's opinions and claims rather than facts.
Matching information
Find which paragraph contains a specific detail, such as an example, a reason or a comparison.
Matching headings
Choose the heading that sums up the main idea of each paragraph. There are always more headings than paragraphs.
Matching features
Match statements to people, places, theories or dates mentioned in the passage.
Matching sentence endings
Complete each sentence beginning with the correct ending from a list.
Sentence completion
Fill a gap with words taken from the passage, keeping to the word limit.
Summary, note, table and flow-chart completion
Complete a summary or diagram of part of the passage, using words from the text or from a list.
Diagram label completion
Label a diagram using words from a description in the passage.
Short-answer questions
Answer factual questions with a few words from the passage. The answers follow the order of the text.

IELTS Reading practice: common questions

The Reading test lasts 60 minutes. There are 3 passages and 40 questions, and the total text length is 2,150–2,750 words. Each correct answer is worth one mark, and your raw score out of 40 is converted to a band from 1 to 9.
No. Every passage and question here is original and written by Sprechify, following the official format, question types and word limits. We don't reproduce material from Cambridge IELTS books or any other published test.
Your correct answers are converted with the raw-score table commonly used for IELTS Academic practice tests (for example, 30–32 correct is about Band 7). IELTS doesn't publish an official table, so treat the result as an estimate.
Yes. After you submit, every question shows the correct answer and an explanation. A 'Show in passage' button scrolls to the exact sentence that proves the answer and highlights it.
Yes. In gap-fill questions, an answer that goes over the word limit is marked wrong, as in the real exam. Hyphenated words count as one word.
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