PASSAGE 1 - The history of the Pencil

IELTS Reading Practice Test · 8 questions · by NGUYEN

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The history of the pencil starts with a violent thunderstorm. When some particularly ferocious weather struck the Lake District in North West England in the sixteenth century, locals in the village of Borrowdale discovered large uprooted tree. Underneath the tree lay an unknown black substance…

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