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.
Every answer is marked for you the moment you finish the passage — you get the correct answer beside each question you got wrong, your raw score out of 13 and your band. Vertex does not publish a flat answer key: reading a list tells you nothing about why you missed a question, and it lets you check answers you never actually attempted.
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,…