PTE Academic fill blanks reading exercise
PTE Academic fill blanks reading exercise.In the text below some words are missing.Fill the blanks from the words provided after the text.
Fill in the Blanks: Check for Logical Consistency, Verb forms and vocabulary usage.
1.A new study proposes that baboon grunts and barks might have more in common with human ……………….. than most people believe. Researchers have noted that these monkeys routinely produce five of the distinct vowel sounds found in human languages. Their findings may help in the struggle to ………………… just how human speech developed.According to a study published January 11, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, an …………….. analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons showed that – just like human beings who use several vowels during speech – these animals seem to make five …………….. vowel-like sounds.
acoustical | distinct | languages | reveal | audible | different | speech | discover |
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2.Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the ………….. that separates us from most other primates who don’t really show any overall …………… for left or right handedness.It’s believed that handedness played an important role in human evolution, with a recent study on the ……………. evidence of right-handedness in the fossil record shedding light on when and why this trait arose. Interestingly, the ………… were found not in our ancient hands, but in our ancient teeth.
earliest | signs | traits | clues | preference | inclination | feature |
3.Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those ……………….. that are 20 years away, and always will be. But 2017 could be the year that the field sheds its research-only image.Computing giants Google and Microsoft recently ……………. a host of leading lights, and have set challenging goals for this year. Their ambition reflects a broader ………………. taking place at start-ups and …………….. research labs alike: to move from pure science towards engineering.
academic | engaged | changeover | science | hired | transition | technologies
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PTE Academic fill blanks reading exercise
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