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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 3, Passage 2

John Ray and the Study of Plants

Questions 14–26 of Reading Test 3. 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 17th-century English scholar and botanist John Ray was well aware that he lived through, and participated in, a profound revolution in the way people interacted with nature. In the preface to his Synopsis of British Plants, published in 1690, he gave thanks that he…

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