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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 4, Passage 3

Changes to the Soviet Union's Working Week

Questions 27–40 of Reading Test 4. 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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The Soviet Union's first Five Year Plan was intended to turn the weak and undeveloped country into a powerful, modern, industrial nation. Following its introduction in 1928, production of coal, iron and steel increased at a fantastic rate, and new industrial cities sprang up. Everyone's…

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