SPEAKING READ ALOUD PRACTICE

PTE Academic Speaking read aloud practice samples

1.The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels is one of the key processes in the nuclear fuel cycle. As the conventional method suffers from many drawbacks in reprocessing of nuclear fuel from the view point of cost and minimization of waste, the development of a new process involving cost-effectiveness coupled with minimizing waste amount is a great challenge for the next generation reprocessing. Liquid-liquid extraction was one of the most promising methods of separating REE’s material.

2.A proposal to stop sales of new combustion-engine cars by 2030 has gained cross-party support in Germany’s Bundesrat, the country’s upper house of parliament, Der Spiegel reported.German lawmakers should urge their counterparts in Brussels to push incentives for only zero-emission vehicles to be registered by 2030, the weekly news magazine said, citing a decision taken in a Bundesrat meeting.

3.Sony Corp’s image sensor production will return to full capacity in the October-March half-year due to a pickup in smartphone demand, having spent part of the past year running just under full strength, the head of its chip-making subsidiary said.”The business environment for our customers is improving,” President Yasuhiro Ueda of Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp said at a news conference on Friday, at Sony’s sensor factory in the Kumamoto region of southern Japan.

4.Dr. Jan Vijg of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine has made a heavily qualified assertion that the maximum human lifespan is 115 years, plus or minus a bit. It’s a trend-based analysis, an examination of the global lifespan data as it stands. Since the data don’t show anyone living past about 115, with a very few notable exceptions, Vijg says that the data “strongly suggests” that 115 represents a hard limit to human longevity.

5.It took over a week for the scouts of the 10th to plot the routes, but eventually five trails were mapped out. The thousand-man 1st Battalion of the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, augmented by F Company from the 2nd Battalion, was detailed for the mission. D-day for the operation was February 19, 1945. Half a world away, on that very date, U.S. Marines were storming ashore at an island called Iwo Jima.

6.Aiding the climbers’ ability to see was “artificial moonlight.” From across the valley, searchlight beams were bounced off the heavy cloud cover, and the reflection provided just enough illumination to allow the men of the 10th to find their way to the top. Fortunately, a patchy fog kept any curious Germans from peeking over the top of the ridge to see the attackers coming. Also fortunately, the Germans had posted no sentries below the summit; they were convinced that no one could possibly attack them from the cliff side.

7.Moments later, Wolffis recalled spotting eight Germans a couple hundred yards away. “They didn’t know we were there until we began to fire at them, and then they ran into a bunker. A couple of them then came out and took up firing positions. Every now and then, a reserve company of Germans would [appear], quite a ways behind where the other ones were that we were firing at. They were across a big snow field, and every time they’d get about halfway across, we’d call for artillery fire and that would break up the counterattack.”

8.Even though the rest of Riva Ridge had been secured by the 10th in just a few hours, the battle for lasted all day and through the night; reinforcements could not reach the men. The next day, when at last it appeared that the cut-off, half-starved Americans were about to be overrun, Loose called artillery down on his own position and broke up the attack. The battle continued to rage through the next day until a relief column, led by the battalion commander, finally reached the summit.

9.Taking soundings in the deep ocean was, and long remained, a laborious and time-consuming task, and knowledge of the undersea topography lagged considerably behind our acquaintance with the landscape of the near side of the moon. Over the years, methods were improved.

10.The principle of cooperation is one of the things that sets conversation apart from similar activities such as lectures, debates, arguments and meetings. Other qualities which help to define conversation include the equal distribution of speaker rights; mutual respect among speakers; spontaneity and informality; and a non-businesslike environment.

11.The American executive, unlike the British, has no connection with legislature, and this lack of co-ordination between executive and legislature is one of the distinctive features of American federal government. The Constitution guarded against executive control by disqualifying federal officials, whether civil or military, from membership in Congress.

12.In the summer of 2006, Europe experienced drought on an unprecedented scale. On the Rhine, Europe ‘s busiest waterway, low waters forced ships to carry less cargo and make up for lost revenue with surcharges of up to 50%. In Italy, the Agricultural Confederation announced that the grape harvest was the lowest in two decades.

13.The history of life on Earth is filled with mystery, life-and-death struggles, and bizarre and animals as amazing as any mythological creature. Studying life’s history is one of the most fascinating and challenging parts of biology and researchers go about it in several ways.

14.Blue food is rare in nature. Food researchers say that when humans searched for food, they learned to avoid toxic or spoiled objects, which were often blue, or purple. When food dyed blue is served to study subjects, they lose appetite.

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There is one development however, that pre-dates the others, and that is the invention of Theo A van Hengel and RPC Spangler, two Dutch naval officers who produced working rotor-based cipher machines for the Dutch War Department in 1915. This fact was discovered in 2003 and is described in a paper by Karl de Leeuw. Officially though, the Enigma machine was invented by Arthur Scherbius in 1918, right at the end of World War I. After several years of improving his invention, the first machine saw the light of day in 1923.

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Contemporary machines such as computers using electricity can act so fast as to fool the observer into imagining timeless processes, leaving an impression of an instantaneously acquired history or pre-knowledge of rules required to construct those same rules themselves. However recursion does not commence (nor complete itself) spontaneously, it is given a name and some simple conditions before it starts to work. Recursion is heavy with time because it is essentially a process of systematically ruling out options until nothing is left and then ascending with this information back to the surface of the problem again.

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The automated teller machine, or ATM, is such a complicated piece of technology that it does not have a single inventor. Instead, the ATMs we use today are an amalgam of several different inventions. Some of these proto-ATMs dispensed cash but did not accept deposits, for example, while others accepted deposits but did not dispense cash. Today’s ATMs are sophisticated computers that can do almost anything a human bank teller can, and have ushered in a new era of self-service in banking.

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Machine Learning is a scientific discipline that addresses the following question: ‘How can we program systems to automatically learn and to improve with experience? ’Learning in this context is not learning by heart but recognizing complex patterns and make intelligent decisions based on data. The difficulty lies in the fact that the set of all possible decisions given all possible inputs is too complex to describe. To tackle this problem the field of Machine Learning develops algorithms that discover knowledge from specific data and experience, based on sound statistical and computational principles.

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There is one development however, that pre-dates the others, and that is the invention of Theo A van Hengel and RPC Spangler, two Dutch naval officers who produced working rotor-based cipher machines for the Dutch War Department in 1915. This fact was discovered in 2003 and is described in a paper by Karl de Leeuw. Officially though, the Enigma machine was invented by Arthur Scherbius in 1918, right at the end of World War I. After several years of improving his invention, the first machine saw the light of day in 1923.

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Contemporary machines such as computers using electricity can act so fast as to fool the observer into imagining timeless processes, leaving an impression of an instantaneously acquired history or pre-knowledge of rules required to construct those same rules themselves. However recursion does not commence (nor complete itself) spontaneously, it is given a name and some simple conditions before it starts to work. Recursion is heavy with time because it is essentially a process of systematically ruling out options until nothing is left and then ascending with this information back to the surface of the problem again.

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The automated teller machine, or ATM, is such a complicated piece of technology that it does not have a single inventor. Instead, the ATMs we use today are an amalgam of several different inventions. Some of these proto-ATMs dispensed cash but did not accept deposits, for example, while others accepted deposits but did not dispense cash. Today’s ATMs are sophisticated computers that can do almost anything a human bank teller can, and have ushered in a new era of self-service in banking.

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Machine Learning is a scientific discipline that addresses the following question: ‘How can we program systems to automatically learn and to improve with experience? ’Learning in this context is not learning by heart but recognizing complex patterns and make intelligent decisions based on data. The difficulty lies in the fact that the set of all possible decisions given all possible inputs is too complex to describe. To tackle this problem the field of Machine Learning develops algorithms that discover knowledge from specific data and experience, based on sound statistical and computational principles