Para Summary — Practice

Question 1

Paragraph: 'Solar panel efficiency has roughly doubled over the past two decades, driven largely by improvements in silicon purity and cell design. This has made solar power cost-competitive with fossil fuels in many regions for the first time, a shift that would have seemed implausible just fifteen years ago.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 2

Paragraph: 'Remote work has not eliminated the need for in-person collaboration, but it has changed its purpose. Where offices once hosted routine daily tasks, in-person time is now reserved more deliberately for activities that genuinely benefit from physical presence — onboarding, brainstorming, and relationship-building.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 3

Paragraph: 'Critics of standardized testing argue it narrows curricula to what is easily measured, sidelining skills like creativity and collaboration. Yet abandoning standardized measures entirely removes one of the few tools available for comparing student outcomes across vastly different schools and regions — the debate is less about whether to measure, and more about what else must be measured alongside it.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 4

Paragraph: 'A single bee colony can pollinate millions of flowers in a season, a service agriculture depends on heavily for crops like almonds and apples. Declining bee populations, linked to pesticide exposure and habitat loss, therefore threaten not just biodiversity but food security for several major crops.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 5

Paragraph: 'Traffic congestion in rapidly growing cities is often blamed on insufficient road capacity. But data from cities that have expanded public transit networks instead of roads shows a different pattern: commuters shift to transit when it is fast and reliable enough, reducing car dependency without a single new lane being built.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 6

Paragraph: 'Why do some startups scale rapidly while other, seemingly similar ones stall? The answer often has less to do with the product itself and more to do with whether the founding team recognized early which single metric actually predicted growth, and relentlessly optimized for it rather than chasing every available metric at once.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 7

Paragraph: 'Museums have traditionally protected artifacts by minimizing visitor interaction, but this approach can inadvertently reduce public engagement and, ironically, the very support (funding, attendance) museums need to continue preserving their collections. Some institutions now use replica handling stations, offering tactile engagement without risking the original artifacts, achieving both goals simultaneously.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 8

Paragraph: 'It is often assumed that a larger vocabulary directly produces clearer writing. In practice, clarity depends far more on sentence structure and the writer's willingness to cut unnecessary words than on the breadth of vocabulary available to draw from — a large vocabulary can just as easily produce dense, inaccessible prose as it can produce precision.'

Which best summarises the paragraph?

Accepted Answer

A

Practice — Para Summary

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