IELTS Reading practice tests
Three Academic passages with 40 questions: True/False/Not Given, matching headings, summary completion and every other official question type.
3 passages · 40 questions60 minutes193 tests
Is Graffiti Art or Crime?
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Listening to the Ocean
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
13 questions 20 minFree
Full Test #4
Passage 1: The history of the bar code · Passage 2: Walking and shoes in eighteenth-century London · Passage 3: Mercator — The Map Maker
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
IQ Scores
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
The Origins of Cinema
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
The Tasmanian tiger
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choiceGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
A Brief History of Ballet
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Full Test #3
Passage 1: The history of lighting · Passage 2: The Black-Footed Ferret · Passage 3: The geography of taste buds
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
The Future of Food Packaging
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Science and filmmaking
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minFree
Seaweed
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Full Test #2
Passage 1: Katherine Mansfield · Passage 2: Australian parrots · Passage 3: Yawning
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching featuresTrue / False / Not GivenMultiple choice
40 questions 60 minPremium
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
Risk taking
Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minFree
Multi-tasking and the Brain
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
The Importance of Business Cards
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Full Test #1
Passage 1: Australia's cane toad problem · Passage 2: Farmers · Passage 3: LIFE ON MARS?
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching featuresGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillYes / No / Not Given
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Full Test 18
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Full Test 17
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Full Test 16
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Full Test 15
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 14
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 13
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 12
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
New Understanding of Giraffes in the Wild
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice (choose two)
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Full Test 11
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 10
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 9
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 8
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMatching featuresSummary completion
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
A Unique Golden Textile
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Full Test 7
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
Growing more for less
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Nanotechnology: the science of the very small
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Pearl
Passage 1
Matching featuresTrue / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Full Test 6
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 5
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMatching featuresGap fill
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillSummary completion
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching headingsGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Matching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillSummary completion
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
The Olmec and their great stone heads
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Living walls – a successful environmental project
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Australian Society Before European Settlement
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Sleep Study on Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherers Dispels Popular Notions
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Development of Plastics
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
The Changing Face of Farming in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Walking and shoes in eighteenth-century London
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choiceGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Reducing the effects of jet lag
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Redwoods
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Museums of fine art and their public
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Travel Books
Passage 3
Multiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
The facility for verbal language
Passage 3
Matching featuresGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
The tuatara - past and future
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Life on Mars?
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Game theory
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The origin of language
Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Multiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Understanding the origins of workplace behavior
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The nature deficit - how children are losing touch with nature
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The conservation of rare species
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMultiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Stealth forces in weight loss
Passage 3
Matching featuresGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
What Are the 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die?
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMultiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Australia's Megafauna Controversy
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Mark Strizic: A career of an Australian photographer
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not Given
14 questions 20 minPremium
Research into taming a fox
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Doing more exercise won't help you burn more calories
Passage 3
Matching featuresGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Rebranding Art Museums
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Can hurricanes be moderated or diverted
Passage 3
Matching headingsMultiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Gordon Moore - Titan of Technology
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Improving Patient Safety
Passage 3
Matching featuresSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Flower Power
Passage 3
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
14 questions 20 minFree
The History of Dolls
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Voynich Manuscript
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minFree
Learning to be bilingual
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Tourism
Passage 3
Matching headingsYes / No / Not GivenMatching features
14 questions 20 minPremium
Robert Louis Stevenson
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
New Zealand home textile crafts of the 1930s to 1950s
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The Dunedin study
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Thinking for themselves
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Marine mammals exhibit their ingenuity
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Book Review
Passage 3
Matching featuresSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
How a prehistoric predator took to the skies
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Some views on the use of headphones
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Research into the effects of different teaching styles.
Passage 3
Summary completionMatching features
14 questions 20 minPremium
Mapping the Mind
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Asian space: return of an Asian invention
Passage 3
Matching headingsMatching featuresTrue / False / Not Given
14 questions 20 minPremium
The lost animals of Australia
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The fluoridation controversy
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Global Warming in New Zealand 2
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The hidden lives of solitary bees
Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Learning to Walk
Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenMultiple choiceGap fill
14 questions 20 minPremium
Pacific navigation and voyaging
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Planet Earth’s blue heart
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Rewards for scientific achievement
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The Bug Picture
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Decisions, Decisions.
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Inside the mind of a fan: How watching sport affects the brain
Passage 3
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
What should companies do to survive?
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching features
14 questions 20 minPremium
A closer examination of a study on verbal and non-verbal messages
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
What makes a musical expert?
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minFree
Sea Change for Salinity
Passage 3
Matching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Whale Culture
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice (choose two)Matching features
14 questions 20 minPremium
The economic effect of climate
Passage 2
Matching headingsGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
How the Petri dish supports scientific advances
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
What would happen if all the world’s trees disappeared?
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Nuisance of Noise
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The women scientists of Bologna
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The power of music
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The fashion industry
Passage 2
Matching headingsMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The purpose of facial expressions
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Keeping the water away
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Decision Fatigue
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays?
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The city of Great Zimbabwe
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Antarctic research
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
What kind of structure will make living in space comfortable for us?
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Is feeling grateful the fast track to a good and happy life?
Passage 2
Matching featuresMultiple choice (choose two)Gap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Viking Ireland
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
A mechanical friend for children
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The plan to bring an asteroid to Earth
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The development of television and its introduction in Britain
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Socotra Island
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The last man who knew everything
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Museums and family visitors in Australia
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Investing in the Future
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Steam across the water
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
A Brief History of Humans and Food
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching headingsTrue / False / Not GivenGap fill
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
Matching headingsTrue / False / Not GivenMatching features
40 questions 60 minFree
Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minFree
Advertising needs attention
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The role of accidents in business
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Discovering Purple
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Let's teach them how to teach
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
The Discovery of Slowness
Passage 3
Matching featuresSummary completionMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Full Test 4
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 3
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Will Eating Less Make You Live Longer?
Passage 2
Matching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The booming business of nation-branding business of navo
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Full Test 2
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching features
40 questions 60 minPremium
Full Test 1
Passage 1 · Passage 2 · Passage 3
True / False / Not GivenGap fillMatching headings
40 questions 60 minPremium
The English canal system
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
What is social history?
Passage 3
Summary completionYes / No / Not GivenMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Rubber
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep
Passage 2
Matching headingsMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Mungo Lady and Mungo Man
Passage 1
Matching featuresTrue / False / Not Given
13 questions 20 minPremium
Music soothes and awes – and may help us heal
Passage 3
Yes / No / Not GivenMatching featuresMultiple choice
14 questions 20 minPremium
Australia’s Airborne Dentists
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Eco-Resort Management
Passage 1
Multiple choice (choose two)Multiple choiceGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Pollution in the Bay
Passage 2
Matching featuresTrue / False / Not Given
13 questions 20 minPremium
Traditional Maori Medicine
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
A survivor's story
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minFree
Feeding the World
Passage 1
Matching featuresYes / No / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Temperature rising
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenMatching featuresGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Ambergris
Passage 1
Matching featuresTrue / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Dirty River But Clean Water
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Origins of Laughter
Passage 1
Matching featuresSummary completionTrue / False / Not Given
13 questions 20 minPremium
The Development of Exploration and Scientific Research in Antarctica
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Clarence Birdseye and the Development of Frozen Food
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
Chocolate for the masses
Passage 1
True / False / Not GivenGap fill
13 questions 20 minPremium
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