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Listen and write a summary of 50–70 words.
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Summarize Spoken Text plays a short academic lecture once. You take notes while it plays, then write a single summary that captures the main idea and its key support. Your response is scored on content plus grammar, form and vocabulary, so a well-formed answer matters as much as what it says.
Transcript: Well, I would argue that what they will say was the most important thing to happen in the early 21st century was the merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution. The two really fuzed in a way that more and more I.T. started to drive more and more globalization and more and more globalization started to drive more and more I.T.. And what that fusion did was take the world from connected to hyper-connected and from interconnected to interdependent. These are huge differences of degree that are differences in kind. It happened over the last decade. You are all feeling it in your jobs, in your universities, in your schools. But no one's really explaining it to people. Everyone's living this fusion now. The plumbing of the world fundamentally changed in the last ten years.
