Cambridge IELTS 14 (Academic)

Test 1

The importance of children’s play

The importance of children’s play

Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she’s creating an enchanting world

The growth of bike-sharing schemes around the world

The growth of bike-sharing schemes around the world

How Dutch engineer Luud Schimmelpennink helped to devise urban bike-sharing schemes.

Motivational Factors And The Hospitality Industry

Motivational Factors And The Hospitality Industry

A critical ingredient in the success of hotels is developing and maintaining superior performance from their employees.

Test 2

Alexander Henderson (1831-1913)

Alexander Henderson (1831-1913)

Born in Scotland, Henderson emigrated to Canada in 1855 and become a well-known landscape photographer.

Back to the future of skyscraper design

Back to the future of skyscraper design

Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries.

Why companies should welcome disorder

Why companies should welcome disorder

Whether it is of our lives - all those inboxes and calendars - or how companies are structured, a multi-billion dollar industry helps to meet this need.

Test 3

The concept of intelligence

The concept of intelligence

Looked at in one way, everyone knows what intelligence is; looked at in another way, no one does.

Saving bugs to find new drugs

Saving bugs to find new drugs

Zoologist Ross Piper looks at the potential of insects in pharmaceutical research

The power of play

The power of play

The drive to play is so intense that children will do so in any circumstances, for instance when they have no real toys, or when parents do not actively encourage the behavior.

Test 4

The secret of staying young

The secret of staying young

Pheidole dentata, a native ant of the south-eastern U.S., isn't immortal.

Why zoos are good

Why zoos are good

Scientist David Hone makes the case for zoos

Assessing the threat of marine debris

Assessing the threat of marine debris

Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, has been trying to answer a dismal question: Is everything terrible, or are things just very, very bad