PTE Predicted Questions – Fill in the Blanks (January 2022)

PTE READING Fill in the BLANKS exam questions

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In the text below some words are missing. Choose the correct word to fill each blank from the box below. 

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Plants and Animals

  1. Plants and Animals

From the earliest civilizations, plants and animals have been portrayed as a means of understanding and recording the potential uses, such as their economic and healing properties. From the first illustrated (1) ……………………  of medicinal plants, De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, in the first century through to the late fourteenth century, the illustration of plants and animals changed very little. 

Woodcuts in instructional manuals and herbals were often repeatedly copied over the centuries, resulting in a loss of definition and accuracy so that they became little more than stylized decoration. With the growing (2) …………………… of copperplate engravings, the traditional use of woodcuts declined and the representation of plants and animals became more accurate. Then, with the (3) …………………… of artists such as Albrecht Durer and Leonardo Da Vinci, naturalists such as Otto Brunfels, Leonhard Fuchs in botany and Conrad Gesner and Ulisse Aldrovandi in zoology, nature began to be depicted in a more realistic style. Individual living plants or animals (4) …………………… directly and their likeness rendered onto paper or vellum. 

popularity             kind             were observed             emergence             catalog             begin             prevelence             occurerence 

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Internet Use

People are spending twice as much time online compared to 10 years ago, fueled by increasing use of tablets and smartphones. The biggest increase has been (1) …………………… young adults, with time spent online almost tripling from 10 hours and 24 minutes each week in 2005 to 27 hours and 36 minutes in 2014. In total, the average adult spends more than 20 hours online a week, which includes time spent on the internet at work. (2) …………………… the average person spends 2.5 hours every week ‘online while on the move’ – away from their home, work or place of study. This is a five-fold increase from 2005, when the figure was just 30 minutes. Overall, the proportion of adults using the internet has risen by half – from six in ten in 2005 to almost nine in ten today, (3) …………………… Ofcom’s Media Use and Attitudes 2015 report, which questioned 1,890 adults aged 16 and over about their internet consumption habits.

according to             meanwhile             in            with             among             furthermore             

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Seminars

Seminars are not designed to be mini-lectures. Their educational (1) …………………… is to provide an opportunity for you to discuss interesting and difficult aspects of the course. This is founded on the (2) …………………… that it is only by actively trying to use the knowledge that you have acquired from lectures and texts that you can achieve an adequate understanding of the subject. If you do not understand a point it is highly (3) …………………… that you will be the only person in the group in that position, you will invariably be undertaking a (4) …………………… for the entire group if you come to the seminar equipped with questions on matters which you feel you did not fully understand. The seminar is to introduce and (5) …………… discussion. 

role             service             mission             unlikely             provoke             assumption             perhaps             anger            

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Barred Owls

Barred owls can be found in (1) …………………… forests right across North America. They feed on small mammals, fish, birds and small reptiles _ pretty much anything that comes their way. The barred owl grows up to half a metre tall and has (2) …………………… as a very adaptable nocturnal predator. And, (3) ……………………. they have been long-thought to live in old-growth forests, they are now building up quite an (4) …………………… population. In Charlotte, North Carolina, barred owls tend to nest in the cavities of the numerous willow oak trees that line the city’s streets. Far from being endangered, the owls have expanded their range; and now, in some places, conservationists are worried about the effects they might have on other (5) …………………… species .

emerged             native             began             dense             rural             urban             native            whereas             but             local

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Next Task

Having tracked down research that is (1) …………………… to your area of interest, the next task is to actually make (2) …………………… of that research. This section is intended to show you how to be critical of the research you are (3) …………………… and how to check that the (4) ………………… is credible and represented appropriately. Unfortunately this means discussing the ways in which research findings may be misrepresented.

evidence             result             relevant             sense             understanding             reviewing            

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Answer

Plants and Animals

  1. catalog
  2. popularity
  3. emergence
  4. were observed

Internet Use

  1. among
  2. Meanwhile
  3. according to

Seminars

  1. role
  2. assumption
  3. unlikely
  4. service
  5. provoke

Barred Owls

  1. dense
  2. emerged
  3. whereas
  4. urban
  5. native

Next Task

  1. relevant
  2. sense
  3. reviewing
  4. evidence

 

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