Cambridge IELTS 13 Academic Reading Test 3

• Read each passage carefully. You can highlight text by selecting and right-clicking.
• Answer all 40 questions. Move freely between parts using the question palette.
• Submit before time runs out — auto-submit at 60:00.

Cambridge 13 Test 3 brings together botany, infant learning and Bronze Age archaeology. Passage 1, The coconut palm, surveys the tree's role in Polynesian and Asian life and its use of every part of the plant. Passage 2, How baby talk gives infant brains a boost, explains the linguistic value of high-pitched, repetitive caregiver speech. Passage 3 asks what happened to the Harappan Civilisation of ancient Pakistan and India, drawing on new climate research.

This paper is dominated by completion and matching tasks. Passage 1 starts with an eight-row table completion — a long block — plus five True/False/Not Given. Passage 2 mixes four matching items linking findings to researchers, a six-gap summary and three matching information; the summary is the structural backbone here. Passage 3 closes with five matching information, a five-gap summary and four matching items linking events to time periods.

Aim for nineteen minutes on the coconut palm, nineteen on baby talk, twenty on Harappa, with two minutes to transfer. The Harappans declined when the rains shifted — your job is to keep your timing steady through three long completion blocks.

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