Cambridge IELTS 20 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 20 Test 3 connects food technology, marine conservation and human-machine relationships. Passage 1, Frozen Food, gives a US perspective on the industry's development from natural ice harvesting to industrial flash freezing. Passage 2 asks whether the planet's coral reefs can be saved and visits an artificial reef at London Zoo. Passage 3, Robots and us, gathers answers from three experts on whether robots should colonise other planets.

Passage 1 carries seven note completions and six True/False/Not Given on the linear history of frozen food. Passage 2 features six headings, two two-answer multiple choice and three sentence completions on coral reef rescue projects — start with the headings to map the structure. Passage 3 ends with seven matching items linking views to experts, three sentence endings and four multiple choice; the matching block is the most distinctive task because each expert has a clearly named field.

Spend seventeen minutes on frozen food, twenty on coral reefs, twenty-one on robots, with two minutes to transfer. Frozen food preserved freshness through cold; cold reading — calm, methodical scanning — preserves your accuracy.

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