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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 5, Passage 2

The History of the Celtic Language

Questions 14–26 of Reading Test 5. 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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In November 1897, in a field near the village of Coligny in eastern France, a local inhabitant unearthed two strange objects. One was an imposing statue of Mars, the Roman god of war. The other was an ancient bronze tablet, 1.5 metres wide and 1…

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