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Here are Top 3 frequently asked Fill in the Blanks (Reading) questions in recent PTE Academic test (December 2020).

1.Marine Turtles

Of the world’s seven remaining species of marine turtles, almost all have been pushed to endangered levels. Hunting, habitat loss, plastics pollution, climate change, and accidentally being caught in fishing nets continue to threaten the existence of these large and long-living creatures. Shell Beach, named after the shells that form its 90-mile extent , is a vital nesting ground for four of these marine turtle species.

2.Climate Change Prediction

All kinds of predictions may be about to get even more difficult thanks to climate change. Though no one is sure exactly what its effects will be, it seems that extreme weather conditions such as storms and hurricanes are likely to become more common. Such events have far reaching effects on distant weather systems making general forecasting much harder.

3.Retirement

For a start, we need to change our concept of ‘retirement’, and we need to change mindsets arising from earlier government policy which, in the face of high unemployment levels, encouraged mature workers to take early retirement.

Today, government encourages them to delay their retirement.We now need to think of retirement as a phased process, where mature age workers gradually reduce their hours, and where they have considerable flexibility in how they combine their work and non work time.

We also need to recognize the broader change that is occurring in how people work, learn, and live. Increasingly we are moving away from a linear relationship between education, training, work, and retirement, as people move in and out of jobs, careers, caregiving, study, and leisure. Employers of choice remove the barriers between the different segments of people’s lives, by creating flexible conditions of work and a range of leave entitlements. They take an individualised approach to workforce planning and development so that the needs of employers and employees can be met simultaneously. This approach supports the different transitions that occur across the life course – for example, school to work, becoming a parent, becoming responsible for the care of older relatives, and moving from work to retirement.