Highlight Correct Summary:

• It is recommended that test-takers take notes of keywords.

For this task, you will hear a recording that is between 60 and 90 seconds. There will be only 2 or 3 Highlight Correct Summary on the exam. The summaries of the recording will be on the screen of the computer before the recording starts. You are to click on the small box in the margin beside the paragraph summary that best recounts the recording (the answer is not unlike the best topic sentence of a paragraph).

Try to focus on audio status and be ready to start, but before the recording starts, skim the 3 – 5 options presented on the page quickly as the recording will start after 10 seconds.

It is suggested that test-takers take notes of keywords while listening. However, some people just keep reading the options while the speaker is speaking.

You should read the options carefully and try to eliminate options that are wrong immediately.

You are either right or wrong, so you score 1 point or 0.

For example, here are some example summaries:

A. The speaker suggests that the Industrial Revolution has lasted until this century and it is called the lightning revolution.

B. The speaker suggests that the first half of this century will be defined by a soft cell revolution which includes and we will be able to build programmable pathologies.

C. The speaker suggests that the first half of this century will be defined by new software which will be able in which the speaker believes programmable biochemistry will be able to control biology in new ways.

D. The speaker believes that biochemistry and silicone chips will be a product of the next half-century.

E. The speaker suggests that the first half of the next century will provide vast new insight into biochemistry and its uses.

Answer:

The second half of the last century was completely defined by a technological revolution: the

software revolution. The ability to program electrons on a material called silicon made possible

technologies, companies, and industries that were at one point unimaginable to many of us, but

which have now fundamentally changed the way the world works. The first half of this century,

though, is going to be transformed by a new software revolution: the living software

revolution. And this will be powered by the ability to program biochemistry on a material called

biology. And doing so will enable us to harness the properties of biology to generate new kinds

of therapies, to repair damaged tissue, to reprogram faulty cells, or even build programmable

operating systems out of biochemistry.

Answer: C