tailieunhanh - Đề thi thử IELTS phần Reading

Đề thi thử IELTS phần Reading sẽ giúp các bạn biết được cách thức làm bài thi IELTS cũng như củng cố kiến thức của mình, chuẩn bị tốt cho kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn tham khảo. | READING PASSAGE 1 Questions 1-13 WILLIAM GILBERT AND MAGNETISM A. 16th and 17th centuries saw two great pioneers of modern science Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of their findings is eminent. Gilbert was the first modern scientist also the accredited father of the science of electricity and magnetism an Englishman of learning and a physician at the court of Elizabeth. Prior to him all that was known of electricity and magnetism was what the ancients knew nothing more than that the lodestone possessed magnetic properties and that amber and jet when rubbed would attract bits of paper or other substances of small specific gravity. However he is less well-known than he deserves. B. Gilbert s birth predated Galileo. Born in an eminent local family in Colchester county in the UK on May 24 1544 he went to grammar school and then studied medicine at St. John s College Cambridge graduating in 1573. Later he traveled in the continent and eventually settled down in London. C. He was a very successful and eminent doctor. All this culminated in his election to the president of the Royal Science Society. He was also appointed the personal physician to the Queen Elizabeth I and later knighted by the Queen. He faithfully served her until her death. However he didn t outlive the Queen for long and died on December 10 1603 only a few months after his appointment as personal physician to King James. D. Gilbert was first interested in chemistry but later changed his focus due to the large portion of mysticism of alchemy involved such as the transmutation of metal . He gradually developed his interest in physics after the great minds of the ancient particularly about the knowledge the ancient Greeks had about lodestones strange minerals with the power to attract iron. In the meantime Britain became a major seafaring nation in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was defeated opening the way to British settlement of America. British ships depended on the magnetic compass yet no one understood