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。

IELTS Reading: Matching information

Find which paragraph contains a specific piece of information, such as a reason, an example, a comparison or a description. The questions are not in passage order, and a letter may be used more than once.

294 practice sets · 1458 questions · each set is timed at about 90 seconds per question

How to answer

  1. Identify the type of information each question asks for, not just the topic.
  2. Skim each paragraph once and note what kind of detail it contains.
  3. Leave the hardest questions until the others have narrowed the options down.

Common traps

  • Matching on topic alone. Several paragraphs may discuss the same topic, but only one gives the reason or example.
  • Assuming every letter must be used.

Matching information practice sets

PassageQuestionsLevel
Turning Seawater into Drinking Water14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Sleep and Memory14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Alien Intelligence of the Octopus14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Reading the Ice14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Farming Upwards14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Harvesting the Wind14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Worlds Beyond the Sun14–19 (6)StandardPractise
The Plastic in Everything14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Hunting with Sound14–18 (5)StandardPractise
When Grasshoppers Become Locusts14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Defending the Planet14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Mountains Losing Their Ice14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Sixth Sense of Sharks14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Carbon Vaults Beneath Our Feet14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Living at Full Throttle14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Ground That No Longer Stays Frozen14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Songs of the Humpback14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Fighting Disease with Bacteria14–17 (4)HarderPractise
Reading the Earth: The Science of Earthquake Forecasting14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Seeding the Clouds14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Seagrass Meadows: The Ocean's Forgotten Gardens14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Toad That Conquered a Continent14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Silent Season: How Animals Survive Winter14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Grass That Builds Cities14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Great Ocean Conveyor14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Bamboo Specialist: How the Giant Panda Survives on a Plant Diet14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Slippery Riddle of Eel Migration14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Counting Ghost Cats14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Growing Hazard of Space Debris14–19 (6)HarderPractise
From Sunlight to Electricity14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Battery That Changed the World14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Long Road to Fusion Power14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Hydrogen's Promise and Pitfalls14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Harnessing the Tides14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Capturing Carbon14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Copying Nature's Designs14–19 (6)StandardPractise
The Language of Light14–18 (5)StandardPractise
How Salmon Find Their Way Home14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Vanishing Lights14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Why Birds Fly in a V14–19 (6)EasierPractise
Radiocarbon Dating: A Clock in Carbon14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Reading the Invisible: Environmental DNA14–19 (6)HarderPractise
The Promise and Peril of De-extinction14–19 (6)StandardPractise
The Aurora: Light from the Solar Wind14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Chasing Comets14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Ripples in Spacetime14–18 (5)HarderPractise
A Window on the Early Universe14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Many Sleeps of Animals14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Gut Microbiome14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Messenger RNA Vaccines14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Fifth Taste: Umami14–18 (5)HarderPractise
What the Nose Knows14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Enduring Puzzle of Left-Handedness14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Nature's Mirror: What Twin Studies Reveal14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Running Ape14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Birth of Surtsey: Earth's Youngest Island14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Catching Water from Fog14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem14–19 (6)HarderPractise
A Material in a Hurry14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Why the Giraffe Grew Tall14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Why Do Animals Play?14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Soils That Volcanoes Build14–18 (5)HarderPractise
How a Car Learns to See14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Qubit's Promise14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Printing with Drops of Ink14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Teaching a Machine to Read14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Seeing Heat: The Thermal Imaging Camera14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Drones on the Farm14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Mirror and the Machine14–19 (6)EasierPractise
The Surgeon's Hands14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Wearing the Machine14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Building with Living Cells14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Small Reactors, Large Ambitions14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Grid-Scale Batteries: Storing Electricity at Scale14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Giving the Grid a Brain14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Sailing on Sunlight14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Sky Fills Up14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Treasure in the Sky14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Robots at the Bench14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Materials That Mend Themselves14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Sheet That Changed Materials Science14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Beyond the Properties of Nature: Metamaterials14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Resistance Falls to Zero14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Chips That Work Like Brains14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Reading the Mind14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Editing the Harvest14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Body on Your Wrist14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Medicine at a Distance14–19 (6)HarderPractise
The Machine That Reads the Scan14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Predicting the Shape of Life14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Meat from a Bioreactor14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Reading the Field14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Thin Barriers, Clean Water: the Science of Membranes14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Steel Without Coal14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Making Cement Without the Carbon14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Second Life for a Dead Battery14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Taking Plastics Apart14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Afterlife of a Smartphone14–18 (5)StandardPractise
What a Data Centre Does with Its Electricity14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Cables Beneath the Sea14–18 (5)EasierPractise
What Makes 5G Different14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Turning Hydrogen into Current: How Fuel Cells Work14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Secrecy by Numbers: How Encryption Protects Data14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Keys Made of Light14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Ledger Without an Owner14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Choosing for Us14–19 (6)EasierPractise
What a Language Model Actually Does14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Fuel from Thin Air: The Promise and Cost of Synthetic Liquids14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Teaching Machines to See14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Where Am I? How a Robot Vacuum Makes a Map14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Working Without a Leader: the promise of swarm robotics14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Machines That Bend14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Why Build a Robot That Looks Like Us?14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Ships Without Sailors14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Flying on Batteries14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Trains Without Wheels14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Changing the Battery, Not the Wait14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Power Without a Plug14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Touch You Cannot See14–19 (6)StandardPractise
The Illusion of Being There14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Layering the Real World14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Holographic Displays14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Ink That Stays Put14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Bending the Rules: The Rise of Flexible Electronics14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Law That Was Never a Law14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Writing Data into DNA14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Clocks That Keep the World in Step14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Cloth That Senses14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Watching the Weather from Orbit14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Surfaces That Clean Themselves14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Giving the Traffic Lights Something to Think About14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Internet of Things14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Computing at the Edge14–18 (5)EasierPractise
What the Cloud Really Is14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Listening to Bridges14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Passport in Your Pocket14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Tapping to Pay14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Silence, Engineered: How Noise-Cancelling Headphones Work14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Seeing with Electrodes: The Science of Retinal Implants14–18 (5)HarderPractise
The Bionic Limb14–17 (4)StandardPractise
A Computer in the Eye14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Air in Your Street14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Many Dishes, One Telescope14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Bringing the Rocket Home14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Warmth from Below14–19 (6)StandardPractise
The House That Hardly Needs Heating14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Wood That Thinks It Is Concrete14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Turning the Sea into Electricity14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Harvesting Sunlight Above the Crops14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Carbon Fibre: Strength in the Strands14–19 (6)HarderPractise
Getting Some of It Back14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Glass with a Switch14–19 (6)StandardPractise
Banking Heat14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Swimmers in the Bloodstream14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Speaking Through Water14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Drones Beneath the Sea14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Traces in the Pixels14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Filter in the Inbox14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Giving Machines a Voice14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Reading Migration from Ancient Bones14–18 (5)StandardPractise
What Ancient Teeth Can Tell Us14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Reading the Seabed14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Seeing Beneath the Soil14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Doing It Again14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Saving the Paper Record14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Reading the Hand of the Past14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Skin, Ink and Time14–17 (4)StandardPractise
The Long Apprenticeship14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Greek Trireme19–21 (3)EasierPractise
Hearing the Chorus14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Business of Salvation14–17 (4)StandardPractise
How Wheat Became a Crop14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Amber Road14–17 (4)StandardPractise
The Making and Use of Papyrus14–18 (5)EasierPractise
A Promise to Pay: The Bill of Exchange14–17 (4)StandardPractise
The Little Ice Age: Evidence, Causes and Doubts14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Loudest Sound Ever Heard14–17 (4)StandardPractise
The House of Wisdom14–18 (5)StandardPractise
From Electrum to the Milled Edge: A History of Coin-Making14–17 (4)EasierPractise
Pictures Made of Stone and Light14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Oil Painting Arrived14–17 (4)EasierPractise
The Anatomy of a Castle19–22 (4)EasierPractise
The Georgian Terraced House14–17 (4)EasierPractise
Feeding the Legions14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Turning the Soil: the heavy plough and the horse collar19–22 (4)EasierPractise
The Shipwright's Craft19–21 (3)EasierPractise
Lighting the Night Streets14–17 (4)EasierPractise
Where Shares First Changed Hands14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Drawing Plants for Science14–17 (4)EasierPractise
Drawing the World Before Maps Were Accurate14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Water for the Ottoman Capital14–17 (4)EasierPractise
The World of the Coaching Inn14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Letters from the Counting House14–17 (4)StandardPractise
The Arrival of Paper Money in Europe14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Counting the Romans14–17 (4)StandardPractise
Telling the Time in the Roman World14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Building the Viking Longship19–21 (3)EasierPractise
How the Immune System Remembers14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Body's Chemical Works14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Is More Screening Always Better?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Building Muscle14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How the Eye Brings Light into Focus19–22 (4)EasierPractise
An Open Record?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How the Body Controls Its Temperature14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Building a Fair Test14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should Energy Drinks Be Banned for Children?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Living with Thin Air14–18 (5)HarderPractise
How the Arch of the Foot Carries Our Weight19–22 (4)EasierPractise
The Case for Cutting Salt27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Film That Protects the Eye14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Body's Own Pharmacy14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Open Doors on the Ward27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Blood Pressure Cuff Works19–22 (4)StandardPractise
The Organ That Feeds a Baby14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Should Every Newborn Have Its Genome Sequenced?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Hand: Bone, Tendon and Pulley19–22 (4)StandardPractise
Caffeine and the Body14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Should Heading the Ball Be Banned in Youth Football?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Standing In for the Heart19–21 (3)StandardPractise
How Arteries Become Blocked14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Vaccination Question27–31 (5)HarderPractise
Reading the Electrical Brain14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Mathematics of the Herd14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should Volunteers Be Sent to Fight Outbreaks?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How Life Expectancy Is Calculated14–18 (5)StandardPractise
The Pharmacy in the Leaf14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Are Natural Remedies Safer Than Synthetic Ones?27–31 (5)StandardPractise
The Sense of Touch14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Skin Grafts Take Hold14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should Wildlife Markets Be Closed?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How the Thyroid Uses Iodine14–18 (5)HarderPractise
Judging the Test, Not the Disease14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Paying for Illness You Could Have Avoided27–31 (5)EasierPractise
When the Body Loses Blood14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Can Tourism Help Keep Minority Languages Alive?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Noise Beneath the Waves14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Children Learn to Read14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should Unpaid Internships Be Banned?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Why a Geyser Erupts19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Should Solar Panels Be Compulsory on New Homes?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should Companies Publish What Every Employee Earns?27–31 (5)StandardPractise
Why City Birds Sing Differently14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Rumours Spread14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should National Parks Charge Entry Fees?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Why an Igloo Keeps You Warm19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Should Coursework Replace Written Examinations?27–31 (5)StandardPractise
Should City Buses Be Free?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Why No Two Eggs Look Alike14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Why an Hour Can Feel Like a Minute14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Do Prizes Motivate Scientists?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Comb and the Cylinder19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Should Graffiti Be Treated as Art?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should Critical Thinking Be Taught as a School Subject?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How Children Develop a Sense of Fairness14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Learning to See in Colour14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Does Commercialisation Damage Cultural Festivals?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Termite Mound Stays Cool19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Reading under Scrutiny27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Who Should Answer for What Users Post?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How Lies Are Detected14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Trust Forms Between Strangers14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Should Urban Farms Receive Public Money?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Spinning Wheel Turns Fibre into Yarn19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Should Competitive Sport Be Compulsory in Schools?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should Countries Protect Their Film Industries?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Pull of the Moon14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Chimpanzees Use Tools14–18 (5)StandardPractise
How Many Should Stand on the Summit?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Dew Pond Collects Water19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Degrees in a Foreign Language27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Do University Rankings Do More Harm Than Good?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Rhythm of the Ice Ages14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Why We Dream14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Should There Be a Legal Maximum Working Week?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Solar Cooker Works19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Coding at Five27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should Art Be Taught in Every Year of School?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Can Animals Count?14–18 (5)EasierPractise
The Ants' Dairy Herd14–18 (5)StandardPractise
Should Insects Be Farmed for Food?27–31 (5)StandardPractise
Why Water Towers Work19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Should Governments Rescue Failing Companies?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should the Value of the Arts Be Judged by Their Popularity?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
The Birth and Drift of Icebergs14–18 (5)EasierPractise
How Children Learn to Share14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Swimming with Dolphins27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How an Aerial Cable Car Works19–22 (4)StandardPractise
Should Cities Protect Green Belts Around Them?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
Should Every Child Learn to Swim at School?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How the Cat Domesticated Itself14–18 (5)StandardPractise
How Children Play14–18 (5)EasierPractise
Should City Speed Limits Fall to 30 km/h?27–31 (5)EasierPractise
How a Traditional Pottery Kiln Works19–22 (4)EasierPractise
Three Names on the Medal27–31 (5)EasierPractise

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