Reading Passage 1: "William Kamkwamba"

IELTS READING
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Happy learning! 

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Acknowledgements 
We acknowledge the following sources of copyright material. While every effort has 
been made, it has not always been possible to identify the sources of all the material 
used, or to trace all copyright holders. If any omissions are brought to our notice, we 
will be happy to include the appropriate acknowledgements on reprinting.
“Complete IELTS bands 4.5 – 5.0”/ Student’s book, IELTS practice test, Passage 1, 
page 146, Passage 2, page 149, Passage 3, page 152; “Complete IELTS bands 5.5 - 
6.0” / Student’s book & Workbook, Unit 6 (Making money, spending money, Reading 
Section 1, page 36 and 58), Unit 7 (Relationship, Reading Section 2, page 44 and 71), 
Unit 8 (Fashion and design, Reading Section 3, page 48 and 78), by Guy Brook-Hart 
and Vanessa Jakeman, publisher Cambridge University Press, 2012;“Vocabulary for 
IELTS (Intermediate)” / Unit 6 (Effective Communication, Test practice, page 35), Unit 
9 (The natural World, Test Practice, page 49), Unit 11 (Design and innovation, Test 
practice, page 61) by Pauline Cullen, publisher Cambridge University Press, 2008; 
“IELTS Reading Actual Book 2”, Test 3 (Passage 1, page 29), Test 5 (Passage 2, page 
59);“IELTS Reading Actual Book 4”, Test 2 (Passage 1, page 15), Test 2 (Passage 2, 
page 19), Test 2 (Passage 3, page 24)”;“IELTS Test Plus 3” / Test 4, Reading test, Pas-
sage 3, page 90 by Margaret Matthews and Katy Salisbury; “Complete IELTS bands 
6.5 - 7.5” / Student’s book, Unit 1 (Getting higher Education, Reading Section 1, page 
11), Unit 4 (Art and the artist, Reading Section 1, page 41), Unit 5 (Stepping back in 
time, Reading Section 2, page 54), Unit 6 (IT society, Reading Section 3, page 63), Unit 
7 (Our relations with nature, Reading Section 2, page 72), Unit 8 (Across the universe, 
Reading Section 3, page 85) by Guy Brook-Hart and Vanessa Jakeman, publisher 
Cambridge University Press, 2013; “Vocabulary for IELTS (Advanced)” / Unit 4 (Scien-
tific discovery, Test practice, page 25, Unit 9 (Natural history, Test practice, page 51), 
Unit 12 (The latest thing, Test practice, page 69) by Pauline Cullen, publisher Cam-
bridge University Press, 2012