IELTS READING
Practice Reading Passage 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. A SPARK, A FLINT: HOW FIRE LEAPT TO LIFE The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity’s steps towards a life-enhancing technology To early man, fire was a divine gift randomly delivered in the form of lightning, forest fire or burning lava. Unable to make flame for themselves, the earliest peoples probably stored fire by keeping slow-burning logs alight or by carrying charcoal in pots. How and where man learnt how to produce flame at will is unknown. It was probably a secondary invention, accidentally made during tool-making operations with wood or stone. Studies of primitive societies suggest that the earliest method of making fire was through friction. European peasants would insert a wooden drill in a round hole and rotate it briskly between their palms. This process could be speeded up by wrapping a cord ar...
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