PT154.S1.Q7

PrepTest 154 - Section 1 - Question 7

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Speaker 1 Summary

Mark concludes that advances in technology have caused the decline of newspaper sales. As support, Mark asserts that news can be reported in online articles as it happens and at any time of the day. This isn’t something a print newspaper can do.

Speaker 2 Summary

Fatuma concludes that technology is not the reason that newspapers are losing their audience to the Internet. As support, Fatuma asserts that writing in print news articles is too long, whereas online news articles are not. The lengthy print news articles are a convention of print news. They aren’t a product of technology.

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether technology is the cause of the decline in newspaper sales.

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7.

Mark and Fatuma disagree over ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

a

Readers are abandoning ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████

b

Newspaper articles are ███ █████

c

News articles on ███ ████████ ███ ██ ███ ██████

d

Newspaper writing is ████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ████████ █████████████ ██ ███ █████

e

No print newspaper ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████████

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