Here are Top 3 frequently asked Summarize Spoken Text questions in recent PTE Academic test (February 2020).

1. Prevention of Pandemic Transmitting

What we know is that the impact of the pandemic would be catastrophic if it is similar to what we had in 1918. In the United States, there has been unprecedented amount of preparation so far. It’s ..um, affects every aspect of public health. We have efforts for treatment, efforts for better prevention, clinical management, key communications, the domestic and international responses, and also efforts to try to prevent transmission within community. The federal government has had tremendous amount of resources that they have put into development of the new antiviral drugs, antiviral drugs stock piles; development of new vaccines and manufacturing facilities for vaccines. So, there’s quite a lot that’s happening in the United States. However, developing countries do not have the level of resources found in more developed countries. That’s the real challenge.

2. Australian Housing

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 more or less of an uninterrupted economic growth during which average earning has been raised by close to 90 percent. While over the course of that period, the standard variable mortgage rate has roughly halved. That meant that the amount which a typical home buying house hold can afford to borrow under rules which aren’t strictly applied as they used to be had more than doubled. Over the same period, rising immigration in falling average household size has meant that the number of households looking for accomodation has risen by about one and a half million. That’s around 200 thousand more than the number of dwellings has increased by. So you have had a substantial increase in the purchasing power of households. No net increase in the supply of housing enhance all that addition purchasing power has gone into pushing up the price of housing.

3. Agriculture and Urbanization

I am trying here to capture the dynamics that is conventionally being associated with urbanization developments. And get back once again, to this question of agriculture. Once you have cities and you also the reverse of the cities, you have countryside. You have rural areas and have this relationship with urban areas and it needs to developed agricultural goods. And you trade with increasing industrial goods. Increasing agriculture productivity, reduces labor needs and opportunities in the rural areas, pushing people towards to the cities. There is this notion that in order to have progress and development in cities, you need people. If everybody is busing growing to crops, growing food that exists, you can’t have people all going into the city. You need to increased productivity in the countryside. You need to have one farmer producing enough food for more than one family. And then you will have growth and productivity in the countryside, which will free of people move to the cities. In fact, in many ways, it will compel it. They will go to the cities and search for jobs and provide labor force for the production of all kinds of things.