Question 1
Read the following passage and summarize it in a single sentence. You have 10 minutes to write your response. Your answer will be marked on the basis of how well it highlights the key points from the given text.
The prices of different commodities are interdependent in simple economic terms. Just like the commodities, prices of products and services are also cross connected with respect to each other. For instance, if the price of tomatoes goes up due to flash floods, the price of other commodities will decline. The interdependence of this price change and dependence will be so complex that it is beyond the prediction of an economist. Many times, war crisis affects prices of the most remotely related items, that means very distantly related items will show variation in its prices. Prices of materials to build that item affect the actual price of the item thus the interdependence is so complex. When the government subsidize essential items for public, it also affects prices and cost of many other products. An economist can tell how it is interdependent but not what and how much it will go up or down.
Question 2
Read the following passage and summarize it in a single sentence. You have 10 minutes to write your response. Your answer will be marked on the basis of how well it highlights the key points from the given text.
The continent of Africa is divided into two symmetrical parts by the equator. The northern and southern regions have a kind of weather that is highly influenced by the line dividing them. Although there are a few tall mountains, which create their own weather system; other areas are tropical, windy and arid-dry. Some places get torrential rain once during the rainy season apart from an occasional drizzle. But enough to fill up the water bodies on which many lives depend upon. The wildlife conservation society has created automated water pumps for the times when there is a serious drought. The pumps are connected to the groundwater supplies and work just by pressing a button by an operator sitting over thousand miles away.
Question 3
Read the following passage and summarize it in a single sentence. You have 10 minutes to write your response. Your answer will be marked on the basis of how well it highlights the key points from the given text.
It is quite surprising that one in ten children are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. It stands for attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Nothing serious about it; it’s just an inability to concentrate to some activity where concentration is required. There are many subtypes for this disorder. The most common one is the classical ADD, in which the children become inattentive and distractive. For instance, during the school lectures they their mind tends to wander off the class room to some unrelated things like playing or cartoons. Although this tendency is normal, few adults also show ADD symptoms, which is then a concern for the society, because it can affect their professional life.
Question 4
Read the following passage and summarize it in a single sentence. You have 10 minutes to write your response. Your answer will be marked on the basis of how well it highlights the key points from the given text.
The pyramids were built using heavy load of a few thousand tonne stones carried over hundreds of miles. The historians were baffled about the transport of these massive stones over unrelenting bodies of sand, because there were no roads and no vehicles to carry the heavy stones. Until the recent times, people believed that the Pharaoh had magical powers that made stones to lose its weight so that people could move them. Many researchers published multiple papers suggesting the possible method that might have helped them to carry the stone slabs. One particular paper says that the sand bodies were made wet by sprinkling water over them. It is the most characteristic behaviour of the sand that when it gets wet it loses the frictional properties and becomes smooth.
Question 5
Read the following passage and summarize it in a single sentence. You have 10 minutes to write your response. Your answer will be marked on the basis of how well it highlights the key points from the given text.
Madagascar, an island located off the coast of East Africa has got a very diverse wildlife. It is so unique that the flora and fauna are never to be seen anywhere else than that of the island of Madagascar. The population density is very low but growing rapidly. This place could be the last known resort for the wildlife but not for long. The British government took few initiatives to keep this island intact and original so that world shall not face the consequences of changing weather conditions any sooner. The government of Madagascar accepted the treaty to keep the forest intact for the exchange of carbon credits for its green forest. The unprecedented move has happened recently and green parties all over the world welcomed the pact among the nations. It’s not the first time that governments approached a foreign country to keep the forest intact. Before Madagascar, the government of Great Britain did the same kind of carbon credit pact with Guyana, and Papua New Guinea.