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Practice Listening: Highlight Correct Summary ID: #46077 Medium Romans 4
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But you can see from the relatively crooked and narrow streets of the city of Rome as they look from above today, you can see that again the city grew in a fairly ad hoc way, as I mentioned. It wasn't planned all at once. It just grew up over time beginning in the 8th century BC. Now this is interesting because what we know about the Romans is when they were left to their own devices and they could build a city from scratch, they didn't let it grow in an ad hoc way. They structured it in a very methodical way that was basically based on military strategy, military planning. The Romans, they couldn't have conquered the world without obviously having a masterful military enterprise and they, everywhere they went on their various campaigns, their various military campaigns, they would build camps and those camps were always laid out in a very geometric plan along the grid, usually square or rectangular. So when we begin to see the Romans building their ideal Roman city, they turn to that so-called costrum or military camp design.
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Option 3: "Rome City has relatively crooked and narrow streets, and the city grew in a fairly ad-hoc way based on military strategy. As a result, The masterful military enterprise and various military campaigns helped them conquered the world."

Explanation: This option correctly summarizes the text by mentioning the crooked and narrow streets of Rome and the ad hoc growth of the city. It also connects the growth to military strategy and acknowledges the role of the masterful military enterprise in helping the Romans conquer the world, aligning well with the main ideas presented in the text.

Option 1: "When Romans were left to own devices and they could build the city from scratch, they didn’t let it grow in an ad hoc way. They structure Rome in a very methodical way."

Explanation: This option incorrectly states that the Romans structured Rome in a methodical way when they were left to their own devices. The text indicates that when Romans built from scratch, they did not allow for ad hoc growth, but it does not claim they structured Rome methodically in that context. The phrasing 'they structure Rome' is also grammatically incorrect as it should be 'they structured Rome.'

Option 2: "Romans have conquered the world without having a masterful military enterprise and they are everywhere and they went on their various campaigns."

Explanation: This option contradicts the text by stating that Romans conquered the world without a masterful military enterprise, which is explicitly mentioned as essential in the text. Additionally, the phrase 'they are everywhere' is vague and does not accurately reflect the context of military campaigns discussed in the text.

Option 4: "In Rome as a city the camps were always laid out in a very geometric plan along a grid, usually square or rectangular. Hence, Rome is a modern city."

Explanation: This option misrepresents the text by implying that the geometric layout of military camps directly leads to the conclusion that Rome is a modern city. The text does not make this connection, and the phrase 'hence, Rome is a modern city' is not supported by the information provided, making it an incorrect summary.

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