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Practice Writing: Summarize Written Text
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Instructions
Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.
Half a lifetime ago I made a lifestyle choice to exchange a city terrace for a farm cottage. I knew it was a good idea because I had been there before. Born and reared on a farm, I had been seduced for a few years by the idea of being a big shot who lived and worked in a city rather than only going for the day to wave at the buses.
That also meant I was familiar with some of the minor disadvantages of country living, such as an uncertain water supply, the absence of central heating in most farm houses and a single-track road, easily blocked by snow, broken-down machinery or escaped farm animals.
But there were many advantages as I told my young wife back in the mid-Seventies. She might have been hard to persuade as she was town born and bred and eight months pregnant. I was trying to persuade her that exchanging a warm, large town house for a windswept farm cottage on a much lower income was a good idea.
That also meant I was familiar with some of the minor disadvantages of country living, such as an uncertain water supply, the absence of central heating in most farm houses and a single-track road, easily blocked by snow, broken-down machinery or escaped farm animals.
But there were many advantages as I told my young wife back in the mid-Seventies. She might have been hard to persuade as she was town born and bred and eight months pregnant. I was trying to persuade her that exchanging a warm, large town house for a windswept farm cottage on a much lower income was a good idea.
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That also meant I was familiar with some of the minor disadvantages of country living, such as an uncertain water supply, the absence of central heating in most farm houses and a single-track road, easily blocked by snow, broken-down machinery or escaped farm animals, and there were many benefits as I told my young wife back in the mid-Seventies.
Explanation
That also meant I was familiar with some of the minor disadvantages of country living, such as an uncertain water supply, the absence of central heating in most farm houses and a single-track road, easily blocked by snow, broken-down machinery or escaped farm animals, and there were many benefits as I told my young wife back in the mid-Seventies.
Replaced "advantages" with "benefits"
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