Reading Library
Actual Reading Tests
40 tests
60 minutes
3 passages
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Test 1
- How to find your way out of a food desert
- Beachcombing for early humans in Africa
- Planet Earth’s blue heart
02
Test 2
- Caral: an ancient South American city
- How plants fight back
- Rewards for scientific achievement
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Test 3
- The History of the Pencil
- Skyscraper Farming
- Whale Culture
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Test 4
- Book review: Triumph of the City
- Should space be explored by robots or by humans?
- The dark side of the technological boom
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Test 5
- The Trans-Australian Railway (TAR)
- The gender gap in New Zealand’s high school examination results
- Australia’s Megafauna Controversy
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Test 6
- Studies of Noise
- Farmers
- First Memories
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Test 7
- Ahead of its time
- Coral reefs
- Conscious and Unconscious Thought
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Test 8
- Arctic Warming
- The Science of “Sleeping on It”
- Children’s literature studies today
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Test 9
- The Burgess Shale fossils
- Early Approaches to Organisational Design
- The Algebra Debate
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Test 10
- The Clipper Races: an era of competition between cargo ships
- Orientation of birds
- A new stage in the study and teaching of history
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Test 11
- The history and production of chocolate
- Classical music over the centuries
- The role of accidents in business
12
Test 12
- The National Parks of America
- Achieving a Work–life Balance
- The peopling of Patagonia
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Test 13
- Katherine Mansfield
- The Tasmanian Tiger
- The art of deception
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Test 14
- Tunnelling under the Thames
- Children’s comprehension of television advertising
- Business Innovation
15
Test 15
- Sorry, who are you? (Prosopagnosia)
- Understanding and Protecting Elephants
- Let’s teach them how to teach
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Test 16
- The Remarkable Power of Placebos
- The Dingo Debate
- Pacific Navigation and Voyaging
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Test 17
- Early Photographic Processes
- What’s Happening to Our Food?
- Rewilding
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Test 18
- The Father of English Geology
- Removing Unwanted Noise
- The Bug Picture
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Test 19
- Sydney Opera House
- Paternity Leave
- Decisions, decisions!
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Test 20
- How the First Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable Was Laid
- Australian Parrots and Their Adaptation to Habitat Change
- Yawning
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Test 21
- The Pearl
- Undoing Our Emotions
- The Voynich Manuscript
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Test 22
- Effect and Cause
- Ancient People in the Sahara
- History of Refrigeration
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Test 23
- Education Philosophy
- The History of the Automobile
- Elephant Communication
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Test 24
- Australia's Airborne Dentists
- How are deserts formed?
- Life on Mars?
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Test 25
- Steam across the water
- Reclaiming the Future of the Aral Sea
- Mark Strizic: A career of an Australian photographer
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Test 26
- The Oldest Leather Shoe
- The Evolutionary Mystery: Crocodile Survives
- Memory Champions … or just good at tricks
27
Test 27
- Ancient Egypt
- Desertification
- Practical Learning in the Classroom
28
Test 28
- The history of the bar code
- Learning from the Romans
- Images and Places
29
Test 29
- Carnivorous Plants
- STRESS LESS
- When people are deaf to music
30
Test 30
- Museums and Family Visitors in Australia
- IQ Scores
- The tuatara – past and future
31
Test 31
- Chilli Peppers
- From princes to paupers: how Goya's portraits tell the story of Spain
- Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art
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Test 32
- Australian artist Margaret Preston
- The conquest of malaria in Italy
- The mystery of Easter Island
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Test 33
- Andrew Carnegie: industrialist and philanthropist
- Translating: a key to international understanding?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Test 34
- Tulip Mania
- Pantomime
- Termite Mounds
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Test 35
- The Pyramid of Cestius
- Should we stop eating meat?
- Travelling Plants
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Test 36
- Ancient Chinese Chariots
- Roller coaster: the great fairground attraction
- Look — Who was talking
37
Test 37
- Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture
- A new look for Talbot Park
- 200 Years of Australian Landscapes at the Royal Academy in London
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Test 38
- Katsushika Hokusai
- A mechanical friend for children
- Science and filmmaking
39
Test 39
- Charles Heaphy and the settlement of New Zealand
- Why don't we sleep?
- Flower power
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Test 40
- Australia's cane toad problem
- New Technology in New Zealand's Health Service
- Marine mammals exhibit their ingenuity
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