IELTS Academic Reading — Test 2, Passage 1
Questions 1–13 of Reading Test 2. 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 2, 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, True / False / Not Given.
Yes. The whole of Vertex is free — every reading passage, every listening section, and the band score at the end.
The Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who was the leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, donated large sums of his fortune to educational, cultural, and scientific institutions. He was born in 1835 in Scotland, the son of William Carnegie,…