PTE Homework

Assignment-20
Read Aloud, Describe images,
MCQ’s, Summarize written texts
 Read Aloud
1.
It isn't rare for private equity houses to hire graduates fresh out of business
school, but 9 times out of 10, the students who get these jobs are the ones
who had private equity experience under their belt before even starting their
MBA program.

2.
A study found that the research funded by the soft drinks industry have
different results from research funded by other sources and went on to suggest
that there may have been biased by the research itself. The whole point of the
scientific methods is to ensure the research results are not influenced by the
source of funding.

3.
Student helps and counselor services including male and female staffs from a
variety of background such as clinical, sociology, educational psychology,
social work. All the counselors are trained at a master of doctoral level are
registered with their professional organizations.

4.
How do you imagine of the unimaginable, if we ask you to think of an object says the
yellow tulip, a picture immediately form in our mind’s eye. But what if we try to imagine
the concept such as a square root of a negative number.
5.

Who do you think is the most glamorous person? A biotechnologist who led
his company in international research, an ordinary welder who gained
international fame through his work, or a photographer complimented widely
for a series of photos?
6.
Unlike the United Kingdom, which has taken a relatively restrictive approach
to the possession of arms, the United States has taken a more lenient
approach. In the United States, three models have evolved regarding the
interpretation of the meaning of the right to bear and keep arms as delineated
in the Second Amendment.
7.
Trade unions originated in Europe during the industrial revolution. Because of the
machinery that had become commonplace, skilled labour became less in demand so
employers had nearly all of the bargaining power. Employers mistreated the workers and
paid them too little for the work they did. Trade unions were organised that would help
in the improvement of working conditions.
8.
Unions take the power out of the employer's hands on many issues. There are
examples of cases where workers were engaging in sexual or racial
harassment, but were protected by their unions and allowed to keep their jobs.
Poor workers and excellent workers often receive the same pay and raises,
giving no reason for a person to work harder than necessary at their job.

9.
A smoking ban is a public policy that includes criminal laws and health
regulations that prohibit smoking in certain public places and workspaces.
There are varying definitions of smoking employed in this legislation. The
strictest definitions define smoking as being the inhalation of any tobacco
substance while the loosest define smoking as possessing any lit tobacco
product.
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 Multiple Choice Single Answer
1.
In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) is a large and structured set of texts (now usually
electronically stored and processed). A corpus may be used to help linguists to analyze a
language, or for the purpose of dictionary writing or language teaching. The British
National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken
English from a wide range of sources. The corpus covers British English of the late
twentieth century from a wide variety of genres with the intention that it be a
representative sample of spoken and written British English of that time.
What is a corpus according to text?
A. A type of large dictionary.
B. A single written text.
C. A tool for language analysis.
D. A sample of spoken and written British English

2.
A new survey reveals that a family sit-down at dinnertime may reduce a teenager’s risk of trying or using
alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. The study surveyed more than 1,000 teens and found that those who
dined with their families five to seven times a week were four times less likely to use alcohol, tobacco or
marijuana than those who ate with their families fewer than three times a week.
A recent UK survey also found that dining together as a family is a key ingredient in ensuring a child’s
happiness. Children in the survey reported higher levels of happiness when they dined together with
their families at least three times a week. “Contrary to the popular belief that children only want to
spend time playing video games or watching TV,” said researcher Dr. Maris Iacovou of the University of
Essex, “we found that they were most happy when interacting with their parents or siblings.”
what would be the best title for the given text?
A. Children’s happiness
B. Why teenagers use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs
C. What teenagers really want
D. Why families should dine together
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
1.
During the Ming Dynasty, what is now the city of Shanghai was a part of Jiangsu Province
(with a small partin zhejiang Province). While Shanghai had become a county seat in the
Yuan Dynasty, it remained relatively a small town.
Its location at the mouth of the Yangtze led to its development as coastal trade developed
during the reign of the Qianlong emperor in the Qing Dynasty. Gradually, the port of
Shanghai surpassed the port of Ningbo and the port of Guangzhou to became the largest
port of China at the time.
In 1842, Shanghai became a treaty port, thus developing into an international commercial
city. By the early 20th century, it was the largest city in the Far East, and the largest port
in the Far East.
In 1949, with the Communist takeover in Shanghai, overseas trade was cut dramatically.
The economic policy of the People’s Republic had a crippling effect on Shanghai’s
infrastructure and capital development.
In 1991, the central government allowed Shanghai to initiate economic reform. Since
then, the port of Shanghai has developed at an increasing pace. By 2005, the Yangshan
deep water port was built on the Yangshan islands, a group of islands in Hangzhou Bay,
linked to Shanghai by the Donghai Bridge. This development allowed the port to
overcome shallow water conditions in its current location, and to rival another deep-
water port, the nearby Ningbo-Zhoushan port.

Question – Which of the following are

described in this passage?
Options –
1. Factors leading to the development of the port of Shanghai
2. A chronological history of China
3. Historical events in Shanghai
4. The communist movement in China.
2.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting. Emerging
from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short story has
grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At
its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters, and
focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a “single effect” or
mood. In doing so, short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic
components to a far greater degree than is typical of an anecdote, yet to a far lesser
degree than a novel. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel, authors
of both generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.
Short stories have no set length. In terms of word count there is no official
demarcation between an anecdote, a short story, and a novel. Rather, the form’s
parameters are given by the rhetorical and practical context in which a given story
is produced and considered, so that what constitutes a short story may differ
between genres, countries, eras, and commentators. Like the novel, the short
story’s predominant shape reflects the demands of the available markets for
publication, and the evolution of the form seems closely tied to the evolution of the
publishing industry and the submission guidelines of its constituent houses.
The short story has been considered both an apprenticeship form preceding more
lengthy works, and a crafted form in its own right, collected together in books of
similar length, price, and distribution to novels. Short story writers may define their
works as part of the artistic and personal expression of the form.

Question – Based on the paragraph, which of the following

is a true statement about short story writing?
Options –

1. It usually focuses on a self-contained incident.

2. It is another type of anecdote
3. It is an apprenticeship that authors must take before writing longer works
4. It is often published alongside a novel
5. Its length and other parameters can vary between countries and generous
 Summarize Written Text
1.
Never has there been the slightest whisper of doubt, the slightest want of faith, in the
chief God of America — unlimited belief in the future of America. The faith of Americans
in their own country is religious, if not in its intensity, at any rate in its almost absolute
and universal authority. It pervades the air we breathe.
The Land of Democracy has always appealed to its more enthusiastic children chiefly as a
land of wonderful and more than national possibilities. Neither race nor tradition, nor the
actual past, binds the American to his countrymen, but rather the future which together
they are building.
When, however, Americans talk of their country as the Land of Promise, a question may
well be raised as to precisely what they mean. They mean, of course, in general, that the
future will have something better in store for them individually and collectively than has
the past or the present; but a very superficial analysis of this meaning discloses certain
ambiguities. How is this Promise to be fulfilled? Will it fulfil itself, or does it imply certain
responsibilities? If so, what responsibilities?
2.
Until the middle of the nineteenth-century art had been regarded as a luxury for the rich dilettante;
people heard little of it, and thought less. There was a popular belief that beautiful things were
expensive. There never was a more erroneous idea. The diligent polish in order to secure nice plain
surfaces, or the neat fitting of parts together, is infinitely more difficult than adding a florid casting to
conceal clumsy workmanship. The mere fact that a piece of work is decorated does not show that it has
cost any more in time and execution than if it were plain — frequently many hours have been saved by
the device of covering up defects with cheap ornament.
A craft may easily be practiced without art, and still serve its purpose; the alliance of the two is a means
of giving pleasure as well as serving utility. People suppose that because a design is artistic, its technical
rendering is any the less important, but they are mistaken. Frequently curious articles are palmed off on
us, and designated as “Arts and Crafts” ornaments, in which neither art nor craft plays its full share. Art
does not consist only in original, unusual, or unfamiliar designs; the best art is that which produces
designs of grace and appropriateness, whether they are strikingly new or not.
A medieval artist was usually a craftsman as well. He was not content with furnishing designs alone, and
then handing them over to men whose hands were trained to their execution. He took his own designs
and carried them out. The result was a harmony of intention and execution which is often lacking when
two men of differing tastes produce one object.

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