PTE Academic writing practice passages-summarize written text 66

PTE Academic writing practice passages-summarize written text

Read the passages below and summarize them using one sentence in not more than 75 words(30-35 words). Type your response in the comment section at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish each passage. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.

1.A student of the gun control issue will readily perceive the arena is indeed a broad one, in which we must struggle to preserve the right to keep and bear arms. It is a struggle which will test whatever there might be of genius in any of us and it is one which will merit the devoted efforts of every citizen who in the broadest sense can perceive the relationships which our Bill of Rights liberties bear one to another.
I suggest we begin our affirmative role immediately in the area of crime control. The truth is that gun control does not equate with crime control. We have an advantage in this fact which we have neither exploited nor advanced convincingly. It is demonstrable that in those sections of the country where gun possession is most prevalent, crime is least.
Encouragingly, many moderate and reasonable men among our opponents are beginning to see that our problem is crime control and that gun control is not going to have much, if any, effect upon it. Of course, for reasons of their own, some of them still say gun control is desirable. For these people we can only wonder, as would any good citizen, what it is they have in mind for us that our possession of guns makes them so nervous.
As long as we concur that any measure of gun control equates with some measure of crime control we are in agreement with those who would eliminate our rights. We would then again be backed into our defensive position, held for forty years, always losing a little here and a little there until finally nothing would be left us.
No group of good citizens has ever struggled more conscientiously along the narrow pathway, between hope and moderation on one hand, and the cold facts of efforts to abolish our rights on the other, than the leaders of the National Rifle Association. Every gun owner in America should applaud the action taken by the Executive Committee of the NRA in Washington, D.C. on July 12, 1974: ‘…the NRA opposes any proposed legislation, at any level of government, which is directed against the inanimate firearm rather than against the criminal misuse of firearms.’
A reasonable degree of order in society must prevail first. Criminals must be controlled first. We are the decent people. We try to be reasonable and we are not fools even though we have so often made mistakes in the past 40 years.
Many people turn to England as an example for crime control. The fact is that in England, for hundreds of years, a man found guilty of any one of number of crimes was promptly hanged. Now that a more humanistic generation of Englishmen has lately abolished these stern but effective methods, crime – including armed crime – is sky-rocketing. Recently armed Englishmen, amid a hail of their own bullets, attempted to kidnap the eldest daughter of the reigning Queen of England! Unbelievable.

SUMMARY SAMPLE ANSWER

The gun owners are good citizens, and everyone should be free to own guns but f we wish to reduce crime, we should not ban guns, but impose harsher punishments for criminals.

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The new music was built out of materials already in existence: blues, rock’n’roll, folk music. But although the forms remained, something wholly new and original was made out of these older elements – more original, perhaps, than even the new musicians themselves yet realize. The transformation took place in 1966-7. Up to that time, the blues had been an essentially black medium. Rock’n’roll, a blues derivative, was rhythmic, raunchy, teen-age dance music. Folk music, old and modern, was popular among college students. The three forms remained musically and culturally distinct, and even as late as 1965, none of them were expressing any radically new states of consciousness. Blues expressed black soul; rock, as made famous by Elvis Presley, was the beat of youthful sensuality; and folk music, with such singers as Joan Baez, expressed anti-war sentiments as well as the universal themes of love and disillusionment.
In 1966-7 there was a spontaneous transformation. In the United States, it originated with youthful rock groups playing in San Francisco. In England, it was led by the Beatles, who were already established as an extremely fine and highly individual rock group. What happened, as well as it can be put into words, was this. First, the separate musical traditions were brought together. Bob Dylan and the Jefferson Airplane played folk rock, folk ideas with a rock beat. White rock groups began experimenting with the blues. Of course, white musicians had always played the blues, but essentially as imitators of the Negro style; now it began to be the white bands’ own music. And all of the groups moved towards a broader eclecticism and synthesis. They freely took over elements from Indian ragas, from jazz, from American country music, and as time went on from even more diverse sources (one group seems recently to have been trying out Gregorian chants). What developed was a protean music, capable fan almost limitless range of expression.
The second thing that happened was that all the musical groups began using the full range of electric instruments and the technology of electronic amplifiers. The twangy electric guitar was an old country-western standby, but the new electronic effects were altogether different – so different that a new listener in 1967 might well feel that there had never been any sounds like that in the world before. The high, piercing, unearthly sounds of the guitar seemed to come from other realms. Electronics did, in fact, make possible sounds that no instrument up to that time could produce. And in studio recordings, multiple tracking, feedback and other devices made possible effects that not even an electronic band could produce live. Electronic amplification also made possible a fantastic increase in volume, the music becoming as loud and penetrating as the human ear could stand, and thereby achieving a ‘total’ effect, so that instead fan audience of passive listeners, there were now audiences of total participants, feeling the music in all of their senses and all of their bones.
Third, the music becomes a multi-media experience; a part of a total environment. In the Bay Area ballrooms, the Fillmore, the Avalon, or Pauley Ballroom at the University of California, the walls were covered with fantastic changing patterns of light, the beginning of the new art of the light show. And the audience did not sit, it danced. With records at home, listeners imitated these lighting effects as best they could, and heightened the whole experience by using drugs. Often music was played out of doors, where nature – the sea or tall redwoods – provided the environment.

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10 thoughts on “PTE Academic writing practice passages-summarize written text 66

  1. Gun possession why require justification when everyone have rights, moreover it brings safety but it concerned some, therefore criminal should be controlled first with effective measures in order to give the judgement against Gun Control.

    1. Gun possession why require justification when everyone has liberty rights, moreover it brings safety but it concerns other, therefore criminal should be controlled first with effective measures in order to give the judgement against Gun Control.

  2. Derivative of prime music forms transformed as new music in 1966-67 by amalgamating different music traditions and instruments, introducing electric instruments and amplifiers, and the effects of light show made audience a never before experience.

  3. Gun possession requires justification for liberty right ,Before this transformation,government should control crime rates to minimal in order to give the judgement against Gun Control

  4. Though it can be demonstrated that crime is least in those sections of the country where gun possession is most prevalent,this would eliminate our rights, and hence, a reasonable degree of order must be prevailed in the society first to control the criminals.

  5. The transformation of old music into new music took place in 1966-7 with mixing up many types of music, amplifiers and other electronics instrument and live stage shows with lighting and dancing effect of the audiences.

  6. According to a writer, gun control does not equate with crime control because gun owners are the good citizen, they possess a gun to reduce the crime, but we have to control criminal with severe punishment.

  7. In music lot of transformation has happened from 1966 to 1967 and during this period music blends with electronic instruments, light shown and natural view which encourage audience to dance.

  8. Crime Control measures is the better option of reducing the incidence of crime rather than gun control, more so, societies that promote gun possessions or that have more stern life taking crime control mesures have lower crime rates.

  9. The metamorphosis of music from folk, blues and rock’n’roll into an hybrid rock music started in 1966, enhanced by an extensive range of electronics which in turn makes it more penetrating to the senses and body especially when accompanied by intoxicants.

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