Highlight Correct Summary – This is an item type that integrates listening and reading skills, and requires test takers to understand, analyze and combine information from a recording, and then identify the most accurate summary of the recording.
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PTE Practice Test: Highlight Correct Summary
- Listen to the following audio and choose most accurate summary of the recording.
[A]. High-level mathematical expertise and basic number sense share common roots in a non-linguistic brain circuit.
[B]. Regardless of domain- algebra, analysis,geometry or topology- mathematicians recognize and manipulate numbers mentally.
[C]. Classic left-hemisphere regions involved in verbal semantics are not as well developed in mathematicians as the brain areas involving number and space.
[D]. The mathematical achievement of an individual can be predicted based on his knowledge of number, space and language during childhood.
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TRANSCRIPT (Only for reference, it will not be given in actual PTE Academic Test)
A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has shown that high-level mathematical reasoning rests on a set of brain areas that do not overlap with the classical left-hemisphere regions involved in verbal semantics. Click here to read full transcript
Instead, all domains of mathematics tested recruit a bilateral network, of prefrontal, parietal, and inferior temporal regions, which is also activated when mathematicians or non-mathematicians recognize and manipulate numbers mentally. These results suggest that high-level mathematical thinking makes minimal use of language areas and instead recruits circuits initially involved in space and number. This result may explain why knowledge of number and space, during early childhood, predicts mathematical achievement.
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why not B
This is not an idea that features in the paragraph.
A
Why can’t be option “B”
Why it is not “D” ?
The mathematical achievement of an individual can be predicted based on his knowledge of number, space and language during childhood.
Option D includes language capability along with ‘knowledge of number and space’ as an indicator of mathematical achievement in adult life, whereas the paragraph clearly states that mathematical achievement is not dependent on language.
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Is not it C?
These results suggest that high-level mathematical thinking makes minimal use of language areas and instead recruits circuits initially involved in space and number.
The option ‘C’ does not suggest that mathematicians do not have good language abilities. It merely states that language ability is not required for high level mathematics.
A
D is the Answer
D is not the correct option. Option D includes language capability along with ‘knowledge of number and space’ as an indicator of mathematical achievement in adult life, whereas the paragraph clearly states that mathematical achievement is not dependent on language.
Therefore, Option A is correct.