IELTS Reading Directory · 200 Passages

IELTS Reading Directory

189 passages · adapted from Scientific American & The Economist · Heading / TFNG / MCQ / Summary questions with answer explanations · audio + highlights

All 189 Passages

001 · The last village that still makes brooms 002 · The last village that still makes spoons 003 · The Case for Doing Nothing 004 · The Placebo You Know Is Fake 005 · The AI Crutch 006 · A Bushy Tree, Not a Ladder 007 · Humans in the Rainforest 008 · The Brazen Birds of the World 009 · The Young Neurons of Super-Agers 010 · Cities Beneath the Canopy 011 · A Library Under Wraps 012 · Five Million Bees in the Graveyard 013 · The Planet That Outlived Its Star 014 · A Forecast of Rock Clouds 015 · Homework Up, Exams Down 016 · The Solid-State Battery Make-or-Break Mo 017 · Bottling the Sun 018 · The Battery Made of Rust 019 · A Mission That Found What It Was Never L 020 · The Battery That Runs on Humidity 021 · The Neptune That Orbits Backwards 022 · Ice Clouds on a Distant Jupiter 023 · Supercharged Natural Killers 024 · Memories That Never Were 025 · When Reefs Start to Dissolve 026 · A Feather in the Dung 027 · Light From the Living 028 · Spooky Signals Down the Pole 029 · The Tomb That Split in Two 030 · The Gentle Push 031 · Alone in the Crowd 032 · The Unblinking Eye 033 · Unlocking the Heat Beneath 034 · The Long Wait for Electric Flight 035 · Forests in the Sky 036 · Reinventing the Tomato 037 · Meat Without the Animal 038 · The Silent Grammar 039 · The Song That Won't Stop 040 · The Invisible Injury 041 · The Race Against the Wave 042 · Reading the Mind's Movements 043 · The Silent Spread of Superbugs 044 · Why Losses Outweigh Gains 045 · The Carbon Awakening in Frozen Ground 046 · The Day the Reign Ended 047 · The Ocean's Hit Parade 048 · Ripples in Spacetime 049 · The First Long Walk Out of Africa 050 · The Case for Unconditional Cash 051 · The Generational Bargain 052 · The Algorithm's Gaze 053 · The Personalised mRNA Cancer Vaccine 054 · The Unreckoned Cost of Lost Sleep 055 · Asia's Vanishing Water Tower 056 · The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Got Mo 057 · The Mind in the Arms 058 · Bottling the Sun — The Long Road to Fusi 059 · The Temple That Came Before Farming 060 · Who Backs Your Money? 061 · The Half-Remote Office 062 · The Forged Voice 063 · The Solar Cell That Broke the Silicon Ce 064 · The Robotaxi Safety Debate 065 · Cities That Move Underground 066 · The Drone That Reads the Field 067 · The Food You Throw Away Becomes Dinner 068 · The Prairie Dog's Dictionary 069 · The Brain That Misses the Tune 070 · Sleeping Thin, Racing Fast 071 · Fighting Fire with Fire 072 · The Chemical of Wanting 073 · The Amyloid Hypothesis Under Siege 074 · Mindfulness and the Science of Attention 075 · When the Ocean Runs Out of Breath 076 · Feathered Dinosaurs and the Rise of Bird 077 · Assisted Evolution on the Coral Reef 078 · The Elusive Antimatter Puzzle 079 · The Ancient Secret of Roman Concrete 080 · The Elusive Fight Against Inflation 081 · The Persistent Gender Pay Gap 082 · Who Owns What the Machine Creates 083 · The First CRISPR Cure 084 · How the Brain Turns Action into Habit 085 · When Wetlands Release Their Frozen Carbo 086 · The First Human to Walk Out of Africa 087 · The Otter That Keeps the Forest Under th 088 · The Mirage of a Room-Temperature Superco 089 · The Viking Who Navigated by Hidden Light 090 · The Psychology of Market Fever 091 · Japan's Lesson in a Long Life 092 · The Machine That Decides Who Dies 093 · Rethinking the Tide 094 · High-Speed Rail's Quiet Carbon Reckoning 095 · The City That Gave Its Streets Back 096 · The Return of the Tree in the Field 097 · The Egg That Disagrees With You 098 · Switching Languages Within One Sentence 099 · The Pitch That Names Itself 100 · When Doping Becomes Genetic 101 · When the Ocean Gives a Few Minutes' Noti 102 · When the Number Three Tastes Like Strawb 103 · Resetting the Immune System 104 · The Blinders We Wear 105 · Clouds and Climate Sensitivity 106 · The Day the Oceans Died 107 · The Jellyfish Comeback 108 · Dark Energy Survives a Challenge 109 · Cracking a Bronze Age Script 112 · Engineered for Attention 113 · Pig Kidneys and the Quest for Unlimited 114 · Why We Put Things Off: The Time-Biased B 115 · The Hope and Hard Truth of Green Hydroge 116 · The Lizard That Swam Like a Whale 117 · The Corals That Refuse to Die 122 · The Line Between Treating and Choosing 123 · The Small Modular Revolution 124 · The Grid's New Challenge 129 · 129: What the Score Knows 130 · 130: The Runner Who Could Not Stop 131 · 131: Reading the Mountain 132 · What Sleep Does to Memory 133 · The Two-Edged Sword of Vaccination 134 · The Fear of Being Exposed 135 · The Tides Already Rising 136 · Proteins from the Age of Dinosaurs 137 · The Last Wilderness on the Seafloor 138 · The Higgs Boson Under the Microscope 142 · When Experience Becomes Raw Material 143 · Insulin Resistance — The Silent Precurso 143 · 143: Insulin Resistance — The Silent Pre 144 · The Chemical Imbalance That Wasn't 145 · Batteries and the Grid's Missing Flexibi 151 · The World Is Getting Older 152 · Should We Fear Our Own Creation? 153 · Beyond the Smoke — The Promise and Limit 154 · The Tube That Promised to Beat the Plane 155 · When the Corner Shop Moved Next Door 156 · Farming Without Soil 157 · The Leaky Barrier — Inside the Rise of F 158 · Resurrecting the Last Speakers 159 · How Music Rewires the Young Brain 160 · What the Science Actually Says About Spo 161 · The City That Learned to Soak Up Rain 162 · When the Two Halves of the Brain Went Th 163 · The Inflammatory Battlefield Within Our 164 · The Almond-Shaped Alarm Inside Our Heads 165 · Turning Buildings Into Carbon-Catchers 166 · Taking the Temperature of a T. rex 167 · A Whale Necropolis in the Deep Indian Oc 168 · Chasing the Ghost Particles of the Cosmo 171 · The Rise of the Solo Household 173 · The Air We Breathe 174 · Rewriting the Traumatised Mind 175 · The Silent Toll of the Summer Heat 176 · The Day Three Ancestors Walked 177 · The Meadows the Sea Forgets 178 · The Thinnest Material Ever Made 179 · The Painters in the Dark 180 · Waiting for the Downturn 181 · The Generation in Waiting 182 · The Machines at the Office Desk 183 · Supersized Floating Wind Turbines 184 · Bus Rapid Transit — Latin America's Tran 185 · 185: Pop-Up Parks and the Tactical City 186 · The Quiet Revolution of No-Till Farming 187 · Fermented Foods and the Gut Microbial Fr 188 · The Reading Brain and Its Disruptions 189 · Music as a Lifeline for the Demented Min 190 · Preventing the Knee's Rupture 191 · When the Mountain Lets Go 192 · The Brain That Keeps the Pain 192 · The Brain That Keeps the Pain 193 · Beyond the Machine — The Long Search for 193 · Beyond the Machine — The Long Search for 194 · When the Mind Roams — The Neuroscience o 194 · When the Mind Roams — The Neuroscience o 195 · The River That Ran on Paper — The Colora 195 · The River That Ran on Paper — The Colora 196 · A Window in Stone — How the Burgess Shal 196 · A Window in Stone — How the Burgess Shal 197 · The Forest That Breathes the Tide — Mang 197 · The Forest That Breathes the Tide — Mang 198 · The Light They Could Not Reject — How th 198 · The Light They Could Not Reject — How th 199 · The Art of Not Decaying — Reading an Egy 199 · The Art of Not Decaying — Reading an Egy 200 · A Person or a Product? — The uneasy lega 200 · A Person or a Product? — The uneasy lega