PTE Academic Writing · Summarize Written Text

Summarize Written Text

Condense a passage into ONE sentence of 5–75 words. 101 tasks — scored instantly, exactly as the computer scores them. Scores Reading + Writing.

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When companies first allowed employees to work from home, many managers feared productivity would collapse.…

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Urban planners in mid-sized cities have increasingly turned to bus rapid transit (BRT) systems as a lower-c…

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Curitiba, a mid-sized Brazilian city, is frequently cited in urban planning literature not for the scale of…

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A study tracking media consumption habits across four generational cohorts in twelve countries has found th…

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The mid-sized city of Halversby recently completed a decade-long overhaul of its public transport network,…

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The past two decades have seen a dramatic shift in how local news is produced and consumed, as advertising…

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A twelve-year study tracking recreational running clubs across forty mid-sized towns has produced findings…

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For much of the twentieth century, researchers assumed that adult brains were largely fixed in structure, w…

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The regional broadcaster Merrow Public Media closed its last dedicated newsroom fact-checking desk in 2021,…

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Among the Talvern communities of the fictional highland region of Ossenmoor, the practice of "stone-naming"…

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Marine biologists studying coral reefs off the coast of a volcanic archipelago have documented an unexpecte…

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The Riverton-Alcove Rail Corridor, opened in 1998 to connect a mid-sized manufacturing hub to a coastal con…

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In 2019, the mid-sized coastal city of Renmark Bay reorganized its public transport network around a single…

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Over the past decade, the widespread adoption of smartphones and social media has reshaped how societies co…

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Between 1995 and 2019, international tourist arrivals worldwide rose from roughly 525 million to nearly 1.5…

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Between 1970 and 2020, the number of people crossing international borders each year for reasons other than…

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A ten-year study following roughly 2,400 participants across three research hospitals has reported that a c…

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In the farming district surrounding the town of Marlstead, a three-generation shift in household structure…

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Remote work arrangements, which expanded rapidly in the early 2020s, have continued to evolve as organizati…

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Municipal governments across mid-sized cities have begun deploying networked sensors on streetlights, waste…

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Multigenerational households, in which grandparents, parents, and children share a single residence, have b…

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For much of the twentieth century, legal scholars treated the separation of powers as a fixed architectural…

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The traditional notion of a single, linear career pursued within one organization or even one industry has…

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In most common-law jurisdictions, the doctrine of judicial precedent, or stare decisis, obliges lower court…

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Between 1995 and 2015, the number of international tourist arrivals worldwide more than doubled, rising fro…

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In early 2023, a regional broadcasting network in a mid-sized European country launched an experimental for…

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Recreational running clubs have grown rapidly in urban centres over the past decade, evolving from small, i…

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Since 2015, several municipal libraries across mid-sized cities have begun lending internet-connected devic…

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A retail chain operating in several mid-income countries introduced a dynamic pricing algorithm in 2021 int…

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The city of Kestenbridge began construction on its first fully automated light-rail loop in 2019, aiming to…

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Urban tree canopy coverage has become a focal point for city planners seeking low-cost strategies to mitiga…

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Behavioral economists have spent considerable effort studying why consumers frequently choose subscription…

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Youth participation in organised team sports has declined steadily across several high-income countries ove…

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Over the past decade, a growing number of municipal governments have experimented with replacing physical l…

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Over the past decade, a growing number of households worldwide have adopted smart home devices, ranging fro…

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Grid-scale battery storage has moved from a niche engineering concept to a central component of electricity…

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Economists studying consumer behavior during periods of moderate inflation have long debated whether shoppe…

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Legal scholars have long debated whether written constitutions constrain government power more effectively…

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The economics of crewed space exploration have shifted dramatically over the past two decades as private co…

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Between 2015 and 2024, the city of Rotterdam undertook a phased redesign of its transport network aimed at…

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A research team at a public university spent three years studying whether short daytime naps could improve…

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A twelve-year study following approximately 40,000 adults across several municipal recreation programmes ex…

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In a mountainous region of northern Italy, a centuries-old tradition known locally as the 'Transhumance Wal…

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Public funding for the arts has long been justified on the grounds that culture generates benefits too diff…

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Robotic exploration of the outer solar system has increasingly relied on radioisotope thermoelectric genera…

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Since the mid-1990s, low-cost carriers have reshaped patterns of international travel by unbundling airfare…

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The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources has accelerated over the past fifteen years, d…

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Urban vertical farming, in which crops are grown in stacked layers inside climate-controlled indoor facilit…

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Government support for the arts typically takes one of two broad forms: direct funding, in which public age…

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Recreational running clubs, once a niche pursuit organised informally around local athletics tracks, have i…

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Sleep researchers have increasingly focused on the concept of social jetlag, a term describing the mismatch…

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A comparative analysis of secondary education systems across twelve countries examined how the timing of ac…

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Public funding for the arts has traditionally been justified on the grounds that cultural production genera…

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Education systems across the globe have long been organized around age-based grade levels, in which student…

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Recreational running clubs have undergone a notable transformation over the past fifteen years, evolving fr…

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Consumer spending data released by a coalition of retail analysts suggests that shoppers across several dev…

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In the highland village of Corvasel, a centuries-old harvest ceremony known locally as the Turning has surv…

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When a regional newspaper group in the fictional country of Aldenmark shifted its entire subscriber base to…

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Population aging, driven by declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancy, is reshaping the fisc…

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Education systems around the world are increasingly under pressure to reconcile two competing goals: prepar…

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In a mountainous province of a Southeast Asian country, a centuries-old harvest ceremony known locally as t…

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In the early 2000s, media scholars began tracking a phenomenon they termed "headline drift," in which the w…

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The nature of careers has shifted markedly over the past two generations, moving away from the traditional…

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Populations across much of the developed world, and increasingly in middle-income countries, are aging rapi…

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Public health researchers have increasingly focused attention on the relationship between chronic sleep dep…

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For much of the twentieth century, space exploration was conducted almost exclusively by national governmen…

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The rise of remote and hybrid work arrangements since the early 2020s has prompted economists and organizat…

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Public funding for the arts has traditionally been justified on cultural grounds, the preservation of natio…

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As national populations in many industrialized countries continue to age, driven by both declining birth ra…

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Researchers studying adult second-language acquisition have increasingly questioned the long-held assumptio…

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Anthropologists studying craft traditions in rural weaving communities have long debated whether such pract…

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Researchers at a marine biology station on the fictional coastal region of Verrantine Bay recently complete…

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A multi-year laboratory study on fruit fly populations, conducted to examine how environmental unpredictabi…

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Acquiring a second language in adulthood differs markedly from a child's acquisition of their first, largel…

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Consumer spending data collected across a national retail chain between 2020 and 2023 revealed a pattern th…

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The rise of four-day workweek pilot programs among mid-sized firms has generated a growing body of employer…

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Vertical farming, the practice of growing crops in stacked, climate-controlled indoor layers rather than tr…

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Over the past decade, a growing number of national governments have introduced mandatory "unit price" label…

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Public funding for the arts has historically been justified on the grounds that culture generates social be…

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Research into second-language acquisition has increasingly emphasized the role of comprehensible input, the…

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Long-duration crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit, such as a sustained human presence on the lunar surfa…

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Across several industries, employers have begun offering four-day workweeks at full pay as a response to pe…

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A decade-long comparison of secondary education systems in three countries with historically similar academ…

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Coastal wetland restoration projects have increasingly been promoted as a cost-effective alternative to eng…

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Coral reefs, often described as the rainforests of the sea due to their extraordinary biodiversity, are fac…

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A long-running cohort study following over 6,000 adults across two decades has added nuance to public healt…

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Community-owned solar cooperatives, in which residents of a neighborhood or town collectively finance and s…

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Public health researchers have increasingly turned their attention to the long-term health consequences of…

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A number of countries have recently debated whether to delay the age at which students begin formal, subjec…

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As birth rates decline and life expectancy rises across much of the industrialized world, many countries fa…

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Electricity grids designed around a small number of large, centrally dispatched power stations are increasi…

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Intergenerational co-housing arrangements, in which unrelated families and elderly residents share communal…

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Coastal wetlands, long undervalued relative to more visually dramatic ecosystems such as coral reefs or old…

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Second-language acquisition research has long grappled with the question of why some adult learners achieve…

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A decade-long retrofit programme in the industrial town of Corbridge offers a detailed record of what happe…

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Global food production faces a structural tension between rising demand and the finite capacity of arable l…

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Coastal wetlands, including mangrove forests, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows, have gained increasing at…

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Long-duration crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit present a category of engineering challenge distinct f…

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Global cereal yields per hectare have roughly tripled since the mid-twentieth century, driven by a combinat…

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Conventional wisdom in language pedagogy has long held that immersion, surrounding a learner entirely with…

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In many rapidly urbanising regions, multigenerational households, once the default arrangement for most fam…