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IELTS Reading Practice Test: Great Migrations
Practice your IELTS reading skills with this comprehensive 14-question test. Time limit: 20 minutes.
Reading Passage Content Summary
## Great Migrations **(A)** Animal migration is far more than just the movement of animals. It can be vaguely described as movement that occurs at regular intervals mostly annually - that includes many species of animals, and is rewarded only at the end of the long journey. It shows inherited insti...
Question Types Included
- sentence-completion (4 questions)
- matching-information (6 questions)
- short-answer (4 questions)
Test Information
- Total Questions: 14
- Time Limit: 20 minutes
- Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: IELTS Academic Reading
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–4: Note Completion
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1–4.
1. Migration involves special behaviours concerning preparation such as and arrival.
2. Zooplanktons move in the ocean.
3. Dingle’s observation is more complicated than .
4. A has identified the path of the pronghorn.
Questions 5–8: Matching Information
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A–K, in boxes 5–8.
5. The tern flies on while local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts.
6. After depleting the young leaves on a food plant, offspring of aphids fly towards a different host plant.
7. Dingle is an evolutionary biologist who researches insects.
8. Birds flatten themselves by feeding heavily in advance of a long migrational flight.
9. Forested hills rise to form a V, at one of the bottlenecks, leaving a corridor of open ground only about 150m wide, filled with private homes.
10. The pronghorn is the fastest land mammal of the New World.
Questions 11–14: Short Answer Questions
Answer the questions below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 11–24.
11. Who identified the 5 features of animal migration?
12. Which bird travels from South America to the Arctic circle every year?
13. Who did the research on the American pronghorn?
14. How do zooplanktons find food?
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20 min
14 questions
Great Migrations
Reading Passage Content
This page contains IELTS reading practice materials with comprehensive questions and explanations.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–4: Note Completion
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1–4.
1. Migration involves special behaviours concerning preparation such as and arrival.
2. Zooplanktons move in the ocean.
3. Dingle’s observation is more complicated than .
4. A has identified the path of the pronghorn.
Questions 5–8: Matching Information
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A–K, in boxes 5–8.
5. The tern flies on while local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts.
6. After depleting the young leaves on a food plant, offspring of aphids fly towards a different host plant.
7. Dingle is an evolutionary biologist who researches insects.
8. Birds flatten themselves by feeding heavily in advance of a long migrational flight.
9. Forested hills rise to form a V, at one of the bottlenecks, leaving a corridor of open ground only about 150m wide, filled with private homes.
10. The pronghorn is the fastest land mammal of the New World.
Questions 11–14: Short Answer Questions
Answer the questions below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 11–24.
11. Who identified the 5 features of animal migration?
12. Which bird travels from South America to the Arctic circle every year?
13. Who did the research on the American pronghorn?
14. How do zooplanktons find food?
Ready to Start?
Click to begin your 20-minute reading test
20 min
14 questions