PTE reading sample papers-fill blanks exercise
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.
1.The Danaan and Danites are a mystery people for many historians. Speculated to have been Greek seafarers in the late Bronze Age, they are also closely ………………. with the Sea Peoples who ravaged the Eastern Mediterranean during the same period. Other evidence suggests they originated somewhere along the coast of the Levant, or they were an Israelite tribe that fled with Moses during the biblical ………………….. from Egypt. Whoever the Danaan or Danites were, they left a …………… legacy.The warriors who sacked Egypt for its spoils or Homer’s Troy may explain the mysterious identity and origins of these people, along with the use of Greek ……………. and the Bible itself.
Exodus | associated | mythologies | departure | conflicting | related | legendary |
2.On February 2, 1887—a few months after an …………… had reduced a third of the commercial buildings in Punxsutawney to ashes—a small group of men ascended a wooded area a mile outside the small western Pennsylvania coal town in search of a local rodent said to possess meteorological ……………….. powers. “Up to the time of going to press the beast has not seen his shadow,” the Punxsutawney Spirit …………….. reported to its readers. Later that day, however, the men of what would become known as the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club ……………. one of the local woodchucks and reported back to the town that it had seen its shadow, meaning six more weeks of winter.
spotted | forecasting | dejectedly | noted | predicting | sadly | inferno | storm |
3.
If you had a globe at home when you were a child, you may have played the game of …………….. the globe, placing your finger on it lightly, and wherever the globe stops under your finger is where you will visit. “Round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows.”If you spun a globe and it…………….. on North London, and spun it again and it landed on the Isle of Wight, you would be in the ……………… of two companies that make custom, ……………… globes by hand and to order. One is Bellerby & Co. Globemakers in London. The other is Lander & May, in the city of Cowes on the Isle of Wight in Britain.
terrestrial | landed | vicinity | revolving | stops | spinning | area | celestial |
PTE reading sample papers-fill blanks exercise
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