PTE reading fill blanks practice exercise 25

PTE reading fill blanks practice exercise

PTE reading fill blanks practice 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 group of scientists is ………………. to re-wild 1 million hectares  of European lands, and one of the keys in the circle of life will be ……………….. the fierce, huge, wild aurochs, an ancestor of modern cattle that went extinct centuries ago.How can they reintroduce an extinct animal, you may ask ,Scientists in the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Romania and Croatia are back-breeding ………….. of the animal from modern cattle that ……………… the most genes of the extinct beast. So far scientists in those countries have bred about 500 animals.

remain | genes | attempting | reintroducing | trying | specimens | retain | producing

2.The first Olympic Games of which there is ……………. were held in 776 B.C., and consisted of one event, a great foot race of about 200 yards held on a plain by the River Alpheus  just outside the little town of Olympia in Greece. It was from that date the Greeks began to keep their …………………….. by “Olympiads,” the four-year spans between the ………………….. of the famous games.The modern Olympic Games, which started in Athens in 1896, are the result of the ……………. of a French educator, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, to the idea that, since young people and athletics have gone together through the ages, education and athletics might go hand-in-hand toward a better ………………. understanding.

organising | record | hard work | calendar | celebrations | devotion | international | national 

3.One day in 1853, a ……………at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York, refused to eat an order of French fries because they were too ………………… The chef, George Crum, fried a thinner batch, but the customer also …………………. these. Crum decided to teach the diner a lesson. He sliced a potato paper-thin and ………… it so heavily it could not be cut with a fork. But the customer loved them. Soon other customers were asking for potato chips.

neglected | diner | thin | thick | rejected | fried | cooked | bistro

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PTE reading fill blanks practice exercise

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8 thoughts on “PTE reading fill blanks practice exercise 25

    1. Answers
      1. Attempting, Reintroducing, Specimens,Retain.
      2. Record, Calendar,Celebration, Devotion, International.
      3. Diner, Thick, Rejected, Fried

  1. 1.attempting,producing,genes,trying
    2. calendar, record, international, organising, devotion
    3.thick, cooked, rejected,fried

    1. Answers
      1. Attempting, Reintroducing, Specimens,Retain.
      2. Record, Calendar,Celebration, Devotion, International.
      3. Diner, Thick, Rejected, Fried

  2. Hi HOTSHOT24,

    Please review my following answers:

    1. Attempting, Reintroducing, Specimens,Retain.
    2. Record, Calendar,Celebration, Devotion, International.
    3. Diner, Thick, Rejected, Fried

    And KUDOS for such a wonderful job. You are doing a noble deed by providing students with ample practice for their PTE.

    Cheers Mate..!!!

  3. I’m wondering who refused to eat the order in the first sentence. A filling word should be a person not “a dinner”. Please check if there is any missing words in this paragraph.

    Thank you

    1. Answer is diner nor dinner
      diner means

      noun
      1.
      a person who is eating, typically a customer in a restaurant.

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