本次考试是三篇旧题，内容分别为乐观与健康，新西兰农民和儿童认知。阅读题目比较广泛，主要还是包括自然类，科技类，社会类，动植物类，心理类，生理类和教育类等。考前可以积累某一类主题的专业词汇和背景知识。雅思阅读主要涉及8大题型，纵观最近考试题型，简答题较以前出现频率高，学生可以有意识的多训练此类题型。以下是常考主题的典型篇章，大家可以通过做这些题来积累词汇和了解这方面的背景知识。社会类和自然类文章出现频率较高，这方面的文章要多加练习。
1.自然类
Effects of noise (C7T4P3)
The little ice age (C8T2P2)
Information theory (C9T3P3)
Land of the rising sun (C8T4P1)
Striking back at lightning with lasers (C8T3P1)
2.科技类：
Bakelite (C5T2P1)
Flawed beauty: the problem with toughened glass (C5T4P3)
Market Integrated Rural Transport Project (C7T2P3)
Air Traffic Control in the USA (C8T1P2)
Is there anybody out there: the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence? (C9T1P2)
Sheet glass manufacture: the float process (C8T2P1)
3.社会类
Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth (C4T3P1)
The impact of Wilderness Tourism (C5T4P1)
Graying populations stays in the pink (C6T2P2)
Motivating employees under Adverse Conditions (C6T3P2)
Do literate women make better mothers (C6T4P2)
4.动植物类
What do whales feel (C4T1P2)
Let’s go bats! (C7T1P1)
The history of tortoise (C9T1P3)
Ant intelligence (C7T3P1)
5.心理和生理类：
Young children’s sense of identity (C9T4P2)
Educating phsyche (C7T1P3)
Hearing impairment (C9T2P1)
A neuroscientist reveals how to think differently (C9T2P3)
Telepathy (C8T1P3)
6.教育类
Obtaining linguistic Data (C4T3P3)
Johnson's Dictionary (C5T1P1)
Attitudes to language (C9T3P1)