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PTE Speaking Short Answer Questions Latest 2020 – 1

PTE Short Answer Questions form a segment of the Speaking section, where candidates are presented with concise queries and are required to provide brief responses of one to two words. This category typically consists of 10-12 questions, with each question carrying a value of 1 mark. The following is a compilation of 100 such short-answer questions.

Q1: How many days are in a leap year?
Ans: 366.

Q2: How many years are there in a century?
Ans: 100 years.

Q3: How many years are there in a passage of a decade?
Ans: 10.

Q4: If a figure is hexagonal, how many sides does it have?
Ans: Six.

Q5: In which direction does the sun come up?
Ans: East.

Q6: Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day which commonly starts a week?
Ans: Monday.

Q7: What do we call a book that contains lots of words with their meanings?
Ans: Dictionary.

Q8: What do you call 10 years?
Ans: Decade.

Q9: What do you call the piece of paper that proves you have bought an item?
Ans: A receipt.

Q10: What do you call the alphabetical list at the end of a textbook that tells you where to find specific information?
Ans: Index.

Q11: What do you need to see a thing which is far away?
Ans: Binoculars.

Q12: What does a king or queen wear on their head at official ceremonies?
Ans: Crown.

Q13: What instrument would you use to examine very small objects or life forms?
Ans: Microscope.

Q14: What are 3 quarters of 100%? How much percent is three quarters?
Ans: 75%.

Q15: What is more fuel-efficient, a car, or a truck?
Ans: Car.

Q16: What is the antonym of vertical?
Ans: Horizontal.

Q17: What is the study of the stars and planets called?
Ans: Astronomy.

Q18: What is the word for a period of one hundred years?
Ans: Century.

Q19: What kind of liquid do mammals feed their babies (children)?
Ans: Milk.

Q20: Which organ is the blood pumped from?
Ans: Heart.

Q21: What special document do most people traveling between one country to another need to carry?
Ans: A passport.

Q22: What word is used to describe frozen water?
Ans: Ice.

Q23: When the writer of a book is unknown, what word is used for the author?
Ans: Anonymous.

Q24: Which sweet food is produced by bees?
Ans: Honey.

Q25: Which symbol is used to complete a sentence?
Ans: Full stop/period.

Q26: Would you go to a pharmacy or a surgery to get a prescription filled after visiting a doctor?
Ans: A pharmacy.

Q27: Whose job is it to treat people that are ill or have an injury at a hospital?
Ans: Doctor.

Q28: What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?
Ans: Autobiography.

Q29: What is the name of a building where you can borrow books?
Ans: Library.

Q30: On what geographical location would someone be living if their country is surrounded by water on all sides?
Ans: Island.

Q31: What do you call a piece of equipment we use to look at stars?
Ans: Astronomical telescope.

Q32: In mathematics, there are four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and what?
Ans: Division.

Q33: Where does a camel normally live?
Ans: Desert.

Q34: How many years are there in a millennium?
Ans: A thousand years.

Q35: What is the natural material used to make a car tire?
Ans: Rubber.

Q36: If a figure is a pentagon, how many sides does it have?
Ans: Five.

Q37: What do you call the strap that circulates a person in a car or an airplane?
Ans: Seatbelt.

Q38: When you get lost in the city, what do you need?
Ans: Map.

Q39: When you react to a stimulus, is your response quick or slow?
Ans: Quick.

Q40: What can we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines?
Ans: Pharmacist/Chemist.

Q41: What can we call the animals with white ivory and a long trunk?
Ans: Elephant.

Q42: How many days should be added to February in a leap year?
Ans: One day.

Q43: How many years does a centennial celebrate?
Ans: 100 years.

Q44: What are the people who study ancient bones or plants in rocks?
Ans: Paleontologist.

Q45: If there are 8 black balls and 1 white ball, and I randomly pick one, which color is most likely to be picked?
Ans: Black.

Q46: If you want to buy a ring, who do you approach, a jeweler or a pharmacist?
Ans: Jeweler.

Q47: What do we call the instructions that tell you how to cook food?
Ans: Recipe.

Q48: What is the job title for someone who cooks food in a kitchen?
Ans: Chef /Cook.

Q49: What do you call a list in front of a book which outlines the structure of a book?
Ans: Table of Contents.

Q50: What does a Sundial measure?
Ans: Time.

Q51: What is the big musical instrument that has 88 black and white keys?
Ans: Piano.

Q52: What is the joint between your shoulder and your forearm?
Ans: Elbow.

Q53: What is the opposite of “predecessor”?
Ans: Successor.

Q54: What are the strings on shoes?
Ans: Shoelace.

Q55: What are the things that you touch with your left hand when you play the guitar?
Ans: Strings.

Q56: What kind of sense do you use with your ears?
Ans: Hearing.

Q57: What are the mountains that erupt?
Ans: Volcanoes.

Q58: What do we call the “Times New Roman” in Microsoft Word?
Ans: Typeface/Font.

Q59: What are the two holes in your nose to breathe?
Ans: Nostrils.

Q60: Which one would you use to describe the desert, humidity, or aridity?
Ans: Aridity.

Q61: Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel between the island from America to Europe?
Ans: By ship /By cruise.

Q62: What system does the earth belong to?
Ans: Solar system.

Q63: What is the meaning of “post” in the word “postgraduate?
Ans: After.

Q64: What is the opposite of positive?
Ans: Negative.

Q65: What do we call the thread in the center of a candle?
Ans: Wick.

Q66: What natural resource is used by a carpenter?
Ans: Wood.

Q67: How many hemispheres does the equator divide the globe into?
Ans: Two.

Q68: What is the most catching line of the newspaper?
Ans: Headline.

Q69: How do we call a person who works in the company?
Ans: An employee./Employees.

Q70: What do we call a festival which is held every four years gathering people together as a sporting event?
Ans: Olympics (Games).

Q71: What type of food does a vegetarian eat, beef pie or fruit salad?
Ans: Fruit Salad.

Q72: Which day is between Tuesday and Thursday?
Ans: Wednesday.

Q73: What can bring astronauts to space?
Ans: Spacecraft.

Q74: What publication reports daily news?
Ans: Newspaper.

Q75: What is the collection of pictures called?
Ans: Album.

Q76: Who is a physician who performs surgical operations?
Ans: Surgeon.

Q77: “We went somewhere”, how do you understand it’s a past sentence?
Ans: Went.

Q78: What is the opposite side that the sun rises?
Ans: West.

Q79: Who sits in the cockpit of an airplane?
Ans: Pilot.

Q80: How do you describe the line that segments a circle?
Ans: Chord.

Q81: Which continent do China, India, Korea, and Japan locate?
Ans: Asia.

Q82: What is the opposite of the word ‘artificial’?
Ans: Natural / genuine / real.

Q83: What do bees collect from flowers?
Ans: Pollen.

Q84: Why are bees so important to agriculture?
Ans: Pollination.

Q85: How would you describe someone who can speak two languages?
Ans: Bilingual.

Q86: What is a standard set of letters that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle?
Ans: Alphabet.

Q87: In which reference book can you find synonyms and antonyms?
Ans: Thesaurus.

Q88: What does ASAP mean? What does ASAP stand for?
Ans: As Soon As Possible.

Q89: What do these following belong to chrysanthemum, roses, daisies, tulip, etc?
Ans: Flowers.

Q90: What device do you use to measure your weight?
Ans: Scale.

Q91: How do you call the diagram that includes a horizontal line called X-axis and a vertical line called Y-axis?
Ans: Coordinate system.

Q92: How many wheels does a tricycle have?
Ans: Three.

Q93: Which part at the end of the book can be used for further reading? An index or a bibliography?
Ans: Bibliography.

Q94: Where can you find the index in a book?
Ans: At the end.

Q95: Which one has higher humidity, a desert, or a rainforest?
Ans: A rainforest.

Q96: What is the hardest/toughest part of your hand?
Ans: Nails.

Q97: What is the hard object in the center of peaches, apples, and pears?
Ans: Stone.

Q98: What does the chemical symbol H₂O stand for?
Ans: Water.

Q99: What do you call the publication that is published four times a year?
Ans: Quarterly.

Q100: What is the capital of France?
Ans: Paris.