PTE Listening highlight correct summary practice exercise with answers

Highlight correct summary integrates listening and reading skills and requires you to understand, analyze and combine information from a recording, and then identify the most accurate summary of the recording.

You will hear a recording. Choose the paragraph that best relates to the recording.

1.

A. Unless major oil consumers invest in exploration now (which would be the first time major funds have been invested since 1964) global oil production will level out and be unable to meet increased demands from India and China.

B. With the continuation of improvements in technology, geology, and with government support, there is little doubt that further major reserves of oil will be found in the near future. This should result in sustainable oil supplies for a further 150 years.

C. While we are not about to run out of oil, we are certainly past the peak of oil production, which occurred about 40 years ago. This is despite improvements in technology, geology, and with tax-subsidized investment in exploration.

D. Oil consumption reached its first peak in 1964. Since that time the world has become increasingly dependent on oil. It is unlikely that there will be any new major oil discoveries in the immediate future or at any subsequent time.

2.

A. Culture throughout the world plays a mutually beneficial role in the consumer markets of a society. Through culture, consumers are able to identify the products most important to them, and at the same time, culture is able to adapt to what buyers and sellers desire at any given moment.

B. Throughout the many cultures found in the world, consumers have behaved predictably. While each society may have different values, the level of consumption as compared to other cultures is relatively equal. Globalization ensures that consumers adopt the same process when buying goods and services.

C. The way a consumer buys, uses, and values a product is independent of cultural influence. A consumer may purchase desired products and still practice the beliefs and customs of their culture. Even the organizations responsible for bringing various products to consumers operate without regard to cultural sensitivities.

D. Consumers in different cultures value different things. These values, which can be unique from one culture to the next, impact not only what kinds of products these consumers buy, but also who they buy them from, how they buy them, and for what uses and reasons.

3.

A. There are different ideas about evolution but only in Western culture. This is because the Enlightenment only happened in the West.

B. There are different ideas about evolution but these really only came about in the nineteenth century.

C. There are different ideas about evolution and Alexander von Humboldt was a person as part of the Enlightenment who proposed some of these ideas.

D. There are different ideas about evolution and this is why Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel about a lost world.

4.

A. Classical music should be called songs because that is the terminology that is used on iTunes.

B. Classical music should be called songs but only if they have lyrics; opera, for example, can be called songs.

C. Classical music should not be called songs because eighty per cent is purely instrumental.

D. Classical music should not be called songs because we should aim to be more sophisticated when referring to them

PTE Listening highlight correct summary

Show Answers
1. C 2.D 3.B 4.D

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