Academic and General Training, scored like the real paper
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Academic and General Training passages, scored and timed like the real paper.
- Hundreds of passages across Academic and General Training, growing every week — full-length passages with complete question sets, plus short warm-up texts for a quick session.
- Every IELTS question type — True/False/Not Given, matching headings, matching information, multiple choice, sentence and summary completion, short answer.
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Paying to slow climate change
Governments face growing pressure to act on climate change, but the tools available to them are limited and often expensive. Many economists argue that a carbon tax is the most efficient way to mitigate the damage caused by rising emissions, because it lets the market decide where cuts are cheapest. Others prefer direct regulation, such as caps on factory output or mandatory efficiency standards. In practice, most countries use a mixture of the two. What matters, analysts say, is that policies are introduced early: the longer a government waits, the higher the eventual cost, and the harder it becomes to protect the communities most exposed to flooding, drought and extreme heat.
mitigate
Meaning
Plain English
To make something harmful or painful less severe.
Academic
To reduce the severity, seriousness or extent of something undesirable.
Word Family
Example Sentences
- 1.
“Sea walls and restored wetlands can mitigate the damage that storm surges do to coastal towns.”
- 2.
“The government cut fuel duty to mitigate the effect of rising energy prices on low-income households.”
- 3.
“An early apology did little to mitigate the harm the data breach had done to the company’s reputation.”
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Common Misspellings
One t in the middle: mit-i-gate. Picture shutting a gate against a storm — you cannot stop the storm, only reduce what gets through.
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