TOEFL Reading Academic Passage Practice #034 - How Ancient Roads Shaped Trade

What you will practice

• Reading comprehension
• Evidence and inference
• Time management

Topic: Archaeology · Read an Academic Passage

Passage preview

Ancient roads are sometimes imagined as permanent stone highways, but many were simpler routes whose surfaces varied with local conditions. Builders cleared vegetation, leveled steep sections, and constructed bridges or drainage channels where necessary. In…