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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 10, Passage 2

Learning from the Romans

Questions 14–26 of Reading Test 10. 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.

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Where are the answers to “Learning from the Romans”?

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.

How many questions is it?

Questions 14–26 — 13 questions, in these types: Matching Information, Multiple Answers, Summary Completion.

Is it free?

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How the passage begins

In a quest to make concrete more durable and sustainable, an international team of geologists and engineers has found inspiration in the concrete used by the ancient Romans. The chemical secrets of Roman concrete have been uncovered in samples taken from a concrete Roman breakwater.…

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