PTE Academic writing summarize written text sample passages.Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.
PTE Academic writing summarize written text sample passages
1.Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The making and selling of drugs has a long history and is closely linked, like medical practice itself, with belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so has the development of scientific techniques made diagnosis possible. The doctor is now able to follow up the correct diagnosis of many illnesses-with specific treatment of their cause. In many other illnesses of which the causes remain unknown, he is still limited, like the unqualified prescriber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause. This is the essential difference between medical prescribing and self-medication.
2.Bullying means to be mean to another kid again and again. Bullying can take many forms. It can be teasing, threatening to hurt someone, telling lies about someone, not including others in order to make them feel bad, or it can be actually yelling at or hitting someone. Bullying can also take place over through text messages or emails, or by posting rumors on sites like Facebook, passing around embarrassing pictures or videos.
PTE Academic writing summarize written text sample passages
3. The advance of technology has brought about much progress in some fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy. In many countries public health organisation is improving and peoples’ nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends are two which have an adverse effect. One is the use of high pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has lead to the overuse of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of sedentary society with its faulty ways of living: lack of exercise, overeating, unsuitable eating, insufficient sleep, excessive smoking and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort to self-medication. Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market.
4.These are the main reasons why laxatives, indigestion-remedies, pain killers, cough – mixtures, tonics, vitamins and iron tablets, nose drops, ointments and many other preparations are found in quantity in many households. It is doubtful whether taking these things even improves a person’s health or it simply makes it worse. Worse, because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients making a person dependent on them. They may also cause poisoning and worst of all the symptoms of an underlying problem may be masked and therefore medical help may be sought. Self-diagnosis is a greater danger than self-medication.
PTE Academic writing summarize written text sample passages.
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