Cambridge IELTS 15 Academic Reading Test 3

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Cambridge 15 Test 3 ranges across art, water technology and folklore. Passage 1 profiles the British sculptor Henry Moore, from his Yorkshire childhood as a coal miner's son through Castleford Grammar School to international fame and his late commissions for public spaces. Passage 2 introduces the Desolenator, a solar-powered device for purifying water designed by William Janssen after his observations in Thailand. Passage 3 argues that fairy tales are darker and more universal than children's-room versions suggest, drawing on cross-cultural variants.

Passage 1 begins with seven True/False/Not Given questions and six note completions covering Moore's chronology. Passage 2 brings seven headings on the Desolenator's development and a six-gap summary; do the headings first, then the summary will fall into place. Passage 3 ends with five sentence endings, a five-gap summary and four multiple choice — sentence endings reward you for reading both halves carefully before deciding.

Plan eighteen minutes on Moore, nineteen on the Desolenator, and twenty on fairy tales, with three minutes to transfer. Moore's sculptures reward looking from many angles; this paper rewards reading each question from at least two.

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