IELTS Reading · Academic · Computer-delivered

IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 2: Stonehenge, Living with artificial intelligence, An ideal city

This is IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 2 on the computer-delivered screen, with 3 passages: Stonehenge, Living with artificial intelligence, An ideal city. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• 60 minutes
• 40 questions
• Reading passages on screen

What is in this test

• Passage 1

  Stonehenge

  What archaeologists have worked out about who built Stonehenge, how the stones were moved, and what the site was used for.

• Passage 2

  Living with artificial intelligence

  The passage weighs what machines can already decide for us against the risks of letting them decide too much.

• Passage 3

  An ideal city

  A planned city designed from scratch, and why the neat plans of its designer did not survive contact with the people who lived there.

Question types in this test

This test uses 5 of the Reading question types. Each one links to what it asks for and the mistakes that cost marks:

• Matching headings
• Note completion
• Multiple choice (one answer)
• Summary completion
• True / False / Not Given

Timing and marking

You get 60 minutes for all 40 questions, and there is no extra time at the end to copy answers across — on screen, what you type is already your answer.

There are 40 questions, one mark each, so your raw score is out of 40. The results screen shows which questions you got right, grouped by question type, so you can see where the marks went.

What is different on a computer

The passage sits on one side and the questions on the other, with a divider you can drag. You select text and highlight it instead of underlining with a pencil, and you can search the passage. Practising that is the point of this site.