PTE reading fill blanks practice material
PTE reading fill blanks practice material.In the text below some words are missing.Fill the blanks with the words provided after the text.
Fill in the Blanks: Check for Logical Consistency, Verb forms, and vocabulary usage.
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Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever ……………. from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a …………… timeline that clarifies patterns leading up to two major collapses of the ancient civilization.
Scientists have long …………….. over what caused what is known as the Classic Maya collapse in the ninth century CE when many of the ancient civilization’s cities were abandoned. More recent investigations have revealed that the Maya also experienced an earlier ……………… in the second century CE—now called the Preclassic collapse—that is even more poorly understood.
precise | obtained| puzzled |collapse | detailed | gathered | decline | assumed |
2.Apollo 17 was the sixth Apollo mission to …………… on the moon, and the last to see humans walk on the surface. Though there are no firm plans from any space agency to ……………… humans to the moon in the near future, robotic exploration of the moon has continued, ……………….. as scientists discovered evidence of water ice on its surface. NASA’s Lunar ………………………. Orbiter has also taken high-resolution imagery of all the Apollo landing sites, including Apollo 17.
reconnaissance |escpecially | land | return | particularly | surveying | send | landed |
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3.Kazakhstan was once a nomadic, quiet country, much of it, in the words of Nikita Khrushchev, “virgin land.” When the country …………… independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it began an often awkward ……………… to the modern centralized power of a settled people. The most ……………….. example of this transition may be the capital city, Astana, which grew from its earlier emptiness (and its earlier name: Tselinograd) into a cultural, tech, and ………………. capital, the kind of built-overnight 21st-century oil jungle that brings to mind cities like Doha or Dubai.
took | changes | illustrative | gained | economic| transition | significant | business |
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