IELTS Academic Reading — Test 12, Passage 1
Questions 1–13 of Reading Test 12. Do it online and every answer is marked the moment you finish, with your band score and the exact line of the passage each answer came from.
Or sit the whole paper: Reading Test 12, all 40 questions under exam conditions.
Do the passage here and every answer is marked the moment you finish — the correct answer beside each one you got wrong, your raw score out of 13, and your band. It takes about 20 minutes. Vertex does not post a bare list of answers, because a list tells you nothing about why you missed a question, which is the only part that changes your score.
Questions 1–13 — 13 questions, in these types: Note completion, TFNG.
Yes. The whole of Vertex is free — every reading passage, every listening section, and the band score at the end.
The inhabitants of Mesopotamia – which now forms part of eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and Iraq – lived for thousands of years on individual farms and in small, isolated communities, working relentlessly just to meet their basic needs. But then, about 6,000 years ago something…