Task B, Part 2: Understanding information and making an inference
Quiz
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The speaker says, 'A recent study showed that the young generation alone is spending over eight hours a day online. As the parent of a nine-year-old girl, that number seems awfully low.' What is the speaker inferring?
As a parent, he uses the internet more than eight hours per day.
As a parent, he uses the internet much less than his nine-year old girl.
As a parent, he does not want his nine-year old girl to use the internet.
As a parent, he feels that she uses the internet more than eight hours per day.
The speaker says, 'And when all of that data is held, they can do almost whatever they want with it.' Who do you think he is referring to when he says 'they'?
spies
criminals
big business
governments
The speaker says, 'We are not even two bites into breakfast....' What is he inferring?
Using the internet often interrupts his family's breakfast.
The family eats breakfast quickly so that they can go back online.
The family eats a small breakfast.
They were at the beginning of breafast.
Near the end of the talk, the speaker says, 'Imagine...if somebody followed our children around with a camera and a notebook and recorded their every movement. ...We'd take action. It may not be good action, but we would take action.' What is the speaker inferring when he says, 'It may not be good action'?
Parents are not qualified to take action against people who track children in this way.
Parents may become too emotional if they found that someone was tracking their children in this way.
Parents may follow the one who tracked their children and then follow the tracker's children.
Parents may fight or use violence against people who track their children in this way.
Why do you think the speaker believes big busnesses may be tracking people's internet use patterns?
It is so that they can find secrets about internet users.