PTE Speaking & Writing Practice Test 8

"The city council approved funding for three new public parks next year."

"Today's topic is how GPS satellites help determine your exact location on Earth. The Global Positioning System relies on a network of satellites orbiting Earth, each continuously broadcasting a signal that includes its precise position and the exact time the signal was transmitted. A GPS receiver, such as the one in a smartphone, calculates its distance from a satellite by measuring how long the signal took to travel from the satellite to the receiver, since radio signals travel at a known, constant speed. However, a single distance measurement from one satellite only narrows the receiver's possible location down to a sphere around that satellite; it takes measurements from at least four different satellites simultaneously to mathematically pinpoint a precise three-dimensional location, including latitude, longitude and altitude. This is why GPS accuracy can suffer significantly in dense urban areas or deep valleys, where surrounding buildings or terrain block direct line-of-sight signals from enough satellites to complete an accurate calculation. Because the entire system depends on extremely precise timing, GPS satellites carry highly accurate atomic clocks, and even tiny timing errors caused by the effects of relativity at orbital speeds and altitudes must be carefully corrected for the system to maintain the metre-level accuracy that modern navigation applications rely on."

"Claustrophobia." — one word is enough; a full sentence is not required.

Speaker A: "I think governments should strictly enforce a minimum age requirement for social media accounts, since younger children are especially vulnerable to the documented mental health effects of heavy platform use."

Speaker B: "I agree with the underlying concern, but strict enforcement is practically very difficult, since age verification online can easily be bypassed, and a strict ban might simply push younger users toward less regulated or more harmful alternative platforms."

Speaker A: "That's true, though even imperfect enforcement combined with stronger identity verification requirements could meaningfully reduce the number of very young children using these platforms compared to today's largely unenforced age limits."

Speaker B: "That could help, but I'd also argue that platform design changes, like removing addictive features specifically for accounts registered by minors, might address the harm more directly than age limits alone."

Moderator: "So we have one position favouring stricter age enforcement, and another favouring platform design changes as a more practical, direct way to protect younger users."

শক্তিশালী: উভয় দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি বিস্তারিত, নৈতিক জটিলতা স্বীকার করে বাস্তবসম্মত সমাধান প্রস্তাবিত।

মধ্যম: মূল বিষয়বস্তু ঠিক আছে কিন্তু সহজ বাক্য, সীমিত উদাহরণ।

দুর্বল: ব্যাকরণ ভুল অনেক, খুব কম শব্দ, স্পষ্ট গঠন নেই।