# PTE Reading MCM #13: The Evolution and Purpose...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #13 - Level 2 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

Communication is the sharing of information. It is the power to create in the middle of others, feelings, or information that you want them to have. It is the need to communicate that has given rise to speech, language, alphabets, and writing. The same need led to the invitation of paper, printing presses, typewriters, and finally computers and the internet. The power to communicate in-depth has allowed humans to dominate the earth. The fast development of the same power has allowed human technological evolution. There are three principal needs for communication. The need to communicate in the presence of the receiver gave rise to speech and language. The need to communicate in one's absence gave rise to the alphabet, writing paper, printing press, all kinds of recording devices, and finally the modern-day computer with its features. The need to communicate over a distance included everything that one needed to communicate in one's absence but also gave rise to signals, telegraph, telephone, the postal system, and the internet.

Which of the following questions about communication can be answered from the text?

- Why do we communicate?
- How do we communicate?
- Where do we communicate?
- When do we communicate?

## Answer

- Why do we communicate?
- How do we communicate?

## Explanation

The passage explicitly details the reasons for interaction (the need to share information) and the methods (tools like speech, writing, and digital technology) used to achieve it.

## Hints

- Focus on the first half of the passage to find the primary motivations for interaction.
- Look at the list of inventions mentioned; these represent the tools used to facilitate the process.

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