Levels of trust in America - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question I’m fascinated by the extent to which sharing economy platforms like Uber and Airbnb are getting Americans to trust each other again. Over the last 40 years the level of trust in society has fallen quite dramatically. Less than 1 [...]

Three Types of family - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question A nuclear family consists of only a mother, a father and children, which is the most common family type in western countries. Typically, but not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married. Children in a nuclear family may be the couple’s biological [...]

Food label - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question Current studies show that what goes on labels is an important consideration for manufactures since more than 70 percent of shoppers read food labels when considering whether to buy a product. A recent controversy as to whether labels on prepared foods should educate or [...]

Artificial intelligence - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question We are living through one of the greatest of scientific endeavours – the attempt to understand the most complex object in the universe, the brain. Scientists are accumulating vast amounts of data about structure and function in a huge array of brains, from the [...]

Why Australia housing is so expensive - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question MYPTE · Why Australia housing is so expensive v2 Well, it’s like, why is Australian housing is so expensive? Essentially, it’s showing of how well the Australian economy has been doing over the last 15 years. We have had 15 years [...]

Government Use Tricks - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question I suppose it's the truism to point out that citizens need to be well-informed. Maybe it's something we take for granted in our liberal western democracies. But there will be plenty of societies, well, that run counter to explicit government policy. Many areas [...]

Museum curator - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question I am going to talk today mostly about what I do as a curator here at the National Museum of Australia but I want to draw some generalities from that in terms of a series of curatorial practices, tools, techniques and methods that [...]

Devolution of power - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question Well, that’s one aspect of what’s called, reducing government — modifying government, to be precise.Another aspect of it is what’s called “devolution” — reducing — moving governmental power from the Federal to the State level. And that has a kind of a rationale which you [...]

The merger of globalisation and IT revolution - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question Well, I would argue that what they will say was the most important thing to happen in the early 21st century, was the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. The two really fused in a way that the [...]

Fast radio burst - PTE Summarize Spoken Text Exam Question A fast radio burst is very much like what it sounds. It’s a very fast burst of radio waves. It comes from outer space, a long way away. And by fast, I mean really fast. So it starts and stops in about [...]