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

PTE READING Fill in the BLANKS exam questions

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  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Colour Preference

Colour Preferences Many tests have shown that, in a very broad way, peoples in most parts of the world have similar colour preferences. Blue is the most preferred and popular hue, followed in order by red, green, purple, yellow and orange.(1) …………………… this basic order of colour preference, (2) ……………………, are the responses of individuals, which of course vary (3) …………………… and may also be very powerful. Children are likely to have strong (4) …………………… for some colours and aversions to others, but sometimes will not admit to them, since outside (5) …………………… may be influential in determining both colour preferences and the way that they are expressed or suppressed. Current fashions in clothes and accessories, gender-stereotyping and peer-group pressure may all play a significant part. Boys in particular may be reluctant to admit to any strong preferences for colours (5) …………………… those of favourite football teams, because colour awareness may be regarded by their peer-group as feminine.

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. 

widely             factors            however             and             other than             therefore             overlaying             preferences 

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Shrimp Farms

Over the past two decades around a third of the world’s mangrove swamps have been (1) …………………… for human use, with many turned into valuable shrimp farms. In 2007 an economic study of such shrimp farms in Thailand showed that the commercial profits per hectare were $9,632. If that were the only factor, conversion would seem an excellent idea.

However, proper (2) …………………… shows that for each hectare government subsidies formed $8,412 of this figure and there were costs, too: $1,000 for pollution and $12,392 for losses to ecosystem services. These comprised damage to the supply of foods and medicines that people had taken from the forest, the loss of habitats for fish, and less (3) …………………… against storms. And because a given shrimp farm only stays (4) …………………… for three or four years, there was the additional cost of restoring them afterwards.

productive             accounting             in            with             converted             buffering           

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Genetically Modified Crops

Almost no one regards corn with suspicion. But the (1) …………………… can’t be said for humans’ ingenious ability to engineer the plants we eat. Genetically modified(GM) crops are viewed with (2) …………………… hostility that they are barely grown in Europe. However, a new study by an independent group of scientists, who have done the most comprehensive (3) …………………… of the evidence so far, shows that our aversion to GM food is pointless , (4) …………………… and harmful to farmers .

other             same             mission             unlikely             review             assumption             unscientific             such            

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Supply and Demand

The supply of a thing, in the phrase “supply and demand,” is the amount that will be offered for sale at each of a series of prices; the demand is the amount that will be bought at each of a series of prices. The principle that value depends on supply and demand means that in the case of nearly every commodity, more will be bought if the price is lowered, less will be bought if the price is (1) …………………… . Therefore sellers, if they wish to induce buyers to take more of a commodity than they are already doing, must reduce its price; if they raise its price, they will sell less. If there is a general falling off if in demand– due, say, to trade depression — sellers will either have to (2) …………………… prices or put less on the (3) …………………….; they will not be able to sell the same (4) …………………… at the same price. Similarly with supply. At a certain price a certain amount will be offered for sale, at a higher price more will be offered, at a lower price less. If consumers want more, they must offer a higher price; if they want less, they will probably be able to force prices down. That is the first result of a change in demand or supply.

raised             increase             amount           reduce             market                 native      

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Green Spaces

Green spaces (1) …………………… significantly to a reduction of soil and aerial temperatures during spells of hot weather, so contributing to human wellbeing. In the garden (2) …………………… , there is, however, little information as to what extent various types of plants (3) ……………………  in their cooling potential and how certain planting combinations may maximise cooling under a scenario of (4) ………………… rainfall and minimal water inputs.

reduction             high            relevant             differ             context             low           

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Britain’s Past

The transitions which occurred in Britain around 100 BC, and after 43 AD (when the Roman Army (1) …………………… Britain) represent the key points of socio-economic trend in Britain’s past. During the first century BC, the traditional communal form of life (2) ……………………  rapidly to a world where certain individuals (3) …………………… more important. During the first century AD, Britain became fully a part of the Roman Empire.

shifted           became           invaded            had            changed                      

 

  • PTE Fill in the Blanks – Answer

Colour Preferences

  1. overlaying
  2. however
  3. widely
  4. preferences
  5. factors
  6. other than

Shrimp Farms

  1. converted
  2. accounting
  3. buffering
  4. productive

Genetically Modified Crops

  1. same
  2. such
  3. review
  4. unscientific

Green Spaces

  1. reduction
  2. context
  3. differ
  4. low

Britain’s Past

  1. invaded
  2. shifted
  3. became

 

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