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IELTS Reading Practice Test: The History of the Tortoise
Practice your IELTS reading skills with this comprehensive 12-question test. Time limit: 20 minutes.
Reading Passage Content Summary
## The History of the Tortoise If you go far back, everything lives in the ocean. At different topics in evolutionary history, interested individuals from different animal groups traveled to land, sometimes taking their own seawater in blood and cellular fluids, even to the aridest deserts. In addi...
Question Types Included
- true-false-not-given (4 questions)
- sentence-completion (5 questions)
- multiple-choice (3 questions)
Test Information
- Total Questions: 12
- Time Limit: 20 minutes
- Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: IELTS Academic Reading
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–4: True/False/Not Given
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage?
Write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
Write FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
Write NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
1 Without whose pre-occupied land, no other displacements could have taken place.
2 Turtles never went to sea for a long time, like all vertebrates.
3 Turtles still lay their eggs on the beaches.
4 Turtles are among the first batch of creatures to return to the sea.
Questions 5–9: Sentence Completion
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 5–9.
5. lived before most dinosaurs.
6. Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis are .
7. The fossil looks like .
8. Walter Joyce and Jacques Gauthier are from .
9. appear on the triangular graph.
Questions 10–12: Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
10. All current turtles and tortoises, almost all the branches are:
11. Modern land turtles have not relied on the:
12. Later ancestors still turned into water and became:
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The History of the Tortoise
Reading Passage Content
This page contains IELTS reading practice materials with comprehensive questions and explanations.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–4: True/False/Not Given
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage?
Write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
Write FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
Write NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
1 Without whose pre-occupied land, no other displacements could have taken place.
2 Turtles never went to sea for a long time, like all vertebrates.
3 Turtles still lay their eggs on the beaches.
4 Turtles are among the first batch of creatures to return to the sea.
Questions 5–9: Sentence Completion
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 5–9.
5. lived before most dinosaurs.
6. Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis are .
7. The fossil looks like .
8. Walter Joyce and Jacques Gauthier are from .
9. appear on the triangular graph.
Questions 10–12: Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
10. All current turtles and tortoises, almost all the branches are:
11. Modern land turtles have not relied on the:
12. Later ancestors still turned into water and became:
Ready to Start?
Click to begin your 20-minute reading test
20 min
12 questions