Cambridge IELTS 19 Academic Reading Test 2

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Cambridge 19 Test 2 covers economic history, sports psychology and another look at giftedness. Passage 1 traces the Industrial Revolution from Britain's mid-1700s through its diffusion to the United States and the wider world by the 1830s and 1840s. Passage 2, Athletes and stress, opens with British tennis player Emma Raducanu's published reflections on competition pressure. Passage 3, An inquiry into the existence of the gifted child, opens with Maryam Mirzakhani, the only woman ever to win the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

Passage 1 features seven note completions and six True/False/Not Given on the chronology of industrialisation. Passage 2 has five matching information items, four sentence completions and two two-answer multiple choice — start with sentence completion to anchor your scanning. Passage 3 ends with a six-gap summary, five Yes/No/Not Given and three multiple choice on the gifted-child essay, where the writer's stance is firm but the evidence is hedged.

Allow seventeen minutes on the Industrial Revolution, twenty on athletes, twenty on giftedness, with three minutes to transfer. Industrialists succeeded by linking small efficiencies into one chain — link your tactics across passages the same way.

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