Microsoft Word ielts speaking Actual Tests (Sep Dec 2019) and Suggested Answers Version

43/ Describe a time when you used the internet to solve a problem.

You should say: what problem it was when you did this how long it took you and explain why you used the internet to solve this problem.
I’m going to talk about this time when I needed a foreign book for my studies. I was in my senior year in university and we had this assignment that required us to find the latest medical breakthroughs (new information) on cancer, some of which are very hard to come by. So, I knew I needed to find this book ASAP. Apparently in order to get access to new data you must know the right source and pay some fees. I found out that the breakthroughs that I needed were published in a book, which was not yet for sale in my country. Moreover, even if I’d had it delivered, it would be too late by the time it arrived at my doorstep. I felt really uptight (anxious) about it, but suddenly I thought of a solution.
So, I decided to contact my former host family in the US to ask them to buy a hard copy then have the specific information scanned and emailed to me. It took some time but eventually I got the data in time. It was a bit of a hassle (something time-consuming) for my host family, so I decided to buy him a small gift in return.