Reading Fill In the Blanks - 2 | Reading Section for PTE PDF Download

Q1: For too long we have held preconceived notions of ‘the’ market and ‘the’ state that were seemingly independent of local societies and cultures. The debate about civil society ultimately is about how culture, market and state _________ each other. Concern about civil society, however, is not only relevant to central and eastern Europe and the developing world. It is very much of _________ the European Union as well. The Civil Dialogue Initiated by the Commission in the 1990s was a first attempt by the EU to give the institutions of society - and not only governments and businesses-a voice at the policy-making tables in Brussels. The EU, like other international institutions, has a long way to go in trying to _________ the frequently divergent interests of non-governmental organizations and citizen groups. There is increasing  _________ that international and national governments have to open up to civil society institutions.
[recognition, accomodate, interest to, relate to]

Q2: The overall result of two or _______ forces acting on an object is called the resultant force the resultant of two forces is a single force, which has the same effect as the two forces combined. If two forces pull an object in _______ directions, the size of the resultant can be found by _______ one force from the other. If the forces are _______ , they balance each other.
[opposite, subtracting, more, equal]

Q3: Walt Disney World has become a pilgrimage site partly because of the luminosity of its cross- cultural and marketing and partly because its _______ aspects appeal powerfully to real needs in the capitalist ______. Disney’s marketing is unique because it captured the symbolic essence of _______ but the company has gained access to all public shows, comic books, dolls, apparels, and ________ film strips all point to the parks and each other.
[society, utopian, educational, childhood]

Q4: The logic of the scientific method was set out by John Stuart Mill in 1843 and was named the method of difference. A simple example of what he meant by this is to take two glasses of water which are _________ in every respect. Introduce a few drops of ink into one of these glasses. The water changes colour! According to Mills method of difference it is safe to assume that the change in the colour of the water is due to the _________ of a new factor - the _________ variable -in this case, the ink.
[introduction, identical, independent]

Q5: Entrepreneurs seek the best opportunities for production and ________ all the other resources in order to carry them out ________ needs and takes the necessary actions to initiate the ________ by which they will be ________ .This often means ________ and taking risks.
[process, classifying, visualizes, met, coordinate]

Q6: Scientists preparing for NASA's proposed Jupiter icy Moons Orbiter believe that Jupiter's moons Europa may be a corrosive mixture of acid and peroxide. Thus, it may not be the ________ place for life to exist as was thought possibly to be the case. ________ , all the information we have about Europa comes from the spacecraft Galileo, which completed its mission to study. ________ the general perception of Europa is of a frozen crust of water ice harbouring a salty subterranean ocean kilometre below, researchers studying the most ________ measurements say light reflected from the moons icy surface bears the spectral fingerprints of hydrogen peroxide and strong acids. ________, they accept that it could just be a thin surface dusting and might not come from the ocean below.
[Virtually, recent, However, ideal, Although]

Q7: The first banks were probably the religious temples of the ancient world , and were probably established sometime during the third millennium B . C . _________ the invention of money . Deposits initially consisted of grain and later other goods including cattle , agricultural implements , and eventually precious _________ such as gold , in the form of easy-to-carry compressed plates . Temples and palaces were the safest places to store gold as they were constantly attended and well _________. As sacred places , temples presented an extra _________ to _________ thieves.
[metals, deterrent, predated, would be, built]

Q8: From the earliest civilisations, plants and animals have been portrayed as a means of understanding and recording the potential uses, such as their economic and healing properties. From the first illustrated __________ of medicinal plants, De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, in the first century through to the late fourteenth century the illustration of plants and animals changed very little.
Woodcuts in instructional manuals and herbals were often repeatedly copied over the centuries, resulting in a loss of definition and accuracy so that they became little more than stylized decoration. With the growing __________ of copperplate engravings, the traditional use of woodcuts declined and the representation of plants and animals became more __________. Then, with the emergence of artists such as albrecht durer and Leonardo Da Vinci, naturalists such as Otto Brunfels, Leonhard Fuchs in botany and Conrad Gesner and Ulisse Aldrovandi in zoology, nature began to be __________ in a more realistic style. Individual living plants or animals were observed directly and their likeness __________ onto paper or vellum.
[rendered, popularity, depicted, catalogue, accurate]

Q9: An ice storm is a type of _______ when _______ rainfall comes down into the cold air and the water turned into _______. Once there is a serious ice storm when _______ than 16,000 households had a blackout _______ the ice storm as the ice storm would smash the cables.
[icy, weather, more, during, ice]

Q10: It is difficult to tell precisely when the Breton language was born. As early as the VIth century the new country was _________ and known as “Lesser Britain”, but for many centuries its language _______ close to the one of Great Britain’s – very close even to the dialect spoken in the South West. The VIIIth century is the milestone where Breton, Cornish and Welsh are considered as different _______.
[considered, remained, established]