Reading Library

Actual Reading Tests

40 tests 60 minutes 3 passages
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Test 1

  1. How to find your way out of a food desert
  2. Beachcombing for early humans in Africa
  3. Planet Earth’s blue heart
02

Test 2

  1. Caral: an ancient South American city
  2. How plants fight back
  3. Rewards for scientific achievement
03

Test 3

  1. The History of the Pencil
  2. Skyscraper Farming
  3. Whale Culture
04

Test 4

  1. Book review: Triumph of the City
  2. Should space be explored by robots or by humans?
  3. The dark side of the technological boom
05

Test 5

  1. The Trans-Australian Railway (TAR)
  2. The gender gap in New Zealand’s high school examination results
  3. Australia’s Megafauna Controversy
06

Test 6

  1. Studies of Noise
  2. Farmers
  3. First Memories
07

Test 7

  1. Ahead of its time
  2. Coral reefs
  3. Conscious and Unconscious Thought
08

Test 8

  1. Arctic Warming
  2. The Science of “Sleeping on It”
  3. Children’s literature studies today
09

Test 9

  1. The Burgess Shale fossils
  2. Early Approaches to Organisational Design
  3. The Algebra Debate
10

Test 10

  1. The Clipper Races: an era of competition between cargo ships
  2. Orientation of birds
  3. A new stage in the study and teaching of history
11

Test 11

  1. The history and production of chocolate
  2. Classical music over the centuries
  3. The role of accidents in business
12

Test 12

  1. The National Parks of America
  2. Achieving a Work–life Balance
  3. The peopling of Patagonia
13

Test 13

  1. Katherine Mansfield
  2. The Tasmanian Tiger
  3. The art of deception
14

Test 14

  1. Tunnelling under the Thames
  2. Children’s comprehension of television advertising
  3. Business Innovation
15

Test 15

  1. Sorry, who are you? (Prosopagnosia)
  2. Understanding and Protecting Elephants
  3. Let’s teach them how to teach
16

Test 16

  1. The Remarkable Power of Placebos
  2. The Dingo Debate
  3. Pacific Navigation and Voyaging
17

Test 17

  1. Early Photographic Processes
  2. What’s Happening to Our Food?
  3. Rewilding
18

Test 18

  1. The Father of English Geology
  2. Removing Unwanted Noise
  3. The Bug Picture
19

Test 19

  1. Sydney Opera House
  2. Paternity Leave
  3. Decisions, decisions!
20

Test 20

  1. How the First Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable Was Laid
  2. Australian Parrots and Their Adaptation to Habitat Change
  3. Yawning
21

Test 21

  1. The Pearl
  2. Undoing Our Emotions
  3. The Voynich Manuscript
22

Test 22

  1. Effect and Cause
  2. Ancient People in the Sahara
  3. History of Refrigeration
23

Test 23

  1. Education Philosophy
  2. The History of the Automobile
  3. Elephant Communication
24

Test 24

  1. Australia's Airborne Dentists
  2. How are deserts formed?
  3. Life on Mars?
25

Test 25

  1. Steam across the water
  2. Reclaiming the Future of the Aral Sea
  3. Mark Strizic: A career of an Australian photographer
26

Test 26

  1. The Oldest Leather Shoe
  2. The Evolutionary Mystery: Crocodile Survives
  3. Memory Champions … or just good at tricks
27

Test 27

  1. Ancient Egypt
  2. Desertification
  3. Practical Learning in the Classroom
28

Test 28

  1. The history of the bar code
  2. Learning from the Romans
  3. Images and Places
29

Test 29

  1. Carnivorous Plants
  2. STRESS LESS
  3. When people are deaf to music
30

Test 30

  1. Museums and Family Visitors in Australia
  2. IQ Scores
  3. The tuatara – past and future
31

Test 31

  1. Chilli Peppers
  2. From princes to paupers: how Goya's portraits tell the story of Spain
  3. Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art
32

Test 32

  1. Australian artist Margaret Preston
  2. The conquest of malaria in Italy
  3. The mystery of Easter Island
33

Test 33

  1. Andrew Carnegie: industrialist and philanthropist
  2. Translating: a key to international understanding?
  3. Robert Louis Stevenson
34

Test 34

  1. Tulip Mania
  2. Pantomime
  3. Termite Mounds
35

Test 35

  1. The Pyramid of Cestius
  2. Should we stop eating meat?
  3. Travelling Plants
36

Test 36

  1. Ancient Chinese Chariots
  2. Roller coaster: the great fairground attraction
  3. Look — Who was talking
37

Test 37

  1. Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture
  2. A new look for Talbot Park
  3. 200 Years of Australian Landscapes at the Royal Academy in London
38

Test 38

  1. Katsushika Hokusai
  2. A mechanical friend for children
  3. Science and filmmaking
39

Test 39

  1. Charles Heaphy and the settlement of New Zealand
  2. Why don't we sleep?
  3. Flower power
40

Test 40

  1. Australia's cane toad problem
  2. New Technology in New Zealand's Health Service
  3. Marine mammals exhibit their ingenuity
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