PTE Reading: Practice Questions - 8 | Practice Tests for PTE PDF Download
Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks
Q1: Below is a text with blanks. Fill the appropriate answer choice from the given options for each blank.
You must first have an understanding of why information becomes ____(1)_____, then think about where it might be obtained and then you can begin to work out how to obtain it. It's important to realise that information is very _____(2)_____ held by only a few people. Normally the same information will be shared across a great number of sources and/or people. This is called the 'information ____(3)_____', and understanding it and following it is vital to the Continuous Improvement process. For example, competitor prices are not only known by the company doing the selling but by the _______(4)____ that have bought the product or service, so instead of trying to get the information from the competitor, try to get it from those that the competitor has already given it to! The information chain can be quite complex. Usually, actually obtaining the information is easy, it is thinking about ________(5)_____ to get it from that is the difficult part.
Given below are the answer choices for the blanks in the passage. Choose one option for each blank.
1. superb / inherent / convenient / available
2. firmly / much/ often/ rarely
3. overdose / chain/ gap/ command
4. companies / agents / competitors / customers
5. how/ when/ where / why
View AnswerAns:
1. available
2. rarely
3. chain
4. customers
5. where
You must first have an understanding of why information becomes available, then think about where it might be obtained and then you can begin to work out how to obtain it. It's important to realise that information is very rarely held by only a few people. Normally the same information will be shared across a great number of sources and/or people. This is called the 'information chain', and understanding it and following it is vital to the Continuous Improvement process. For example, competitor prices are not only known by the company doing the selling but by the customers that have bought the product or service, so instead of trying to get the information from the competitor, try to get it from those that the competitor has already given it to! The information chain can be quite complex. Usually, actually obtaining the information is easy, it is thinking about where to get it from that is the difficult part.
Information becomes widely available because a company has to share it with its customers and with many others across the information chain. Information is rarely held by a few. Getting it is easy; from where to get it is the question.
Q2: Below is a text with blanks. Fill the appropriate answer choice from the given options for each blank.
No discussion of the factors and forces at work on a failed policy can ignore the central fact of human ego investment. Men who have participated in a ____(1)_____ develop a stake in that decision. As they participate in further, related decisions, their _____(2)_____) increases. It might have been possible to dissuade a man of strong self-confidence at an early stage of the ladder of decision; but it is infinitely ____(3)_____ at later stages since a change of mind there usually involves implicit or explicit repudiation of a chain of previous decisions. At the heart of a policy-based calamity is a group of able, dedicated men who have been regularly and repeatedly proven _______(4)____ and whose standing with their contemporaries, and more important, with history, depends, as they see it, on being proven ________(5)_____. These are not men who can be asked to extricate themselves from error.
Given below are the answer choices for the blanks in the passage. Choose one option for each blank.
1. programme / decision / start-up / system
2. stake / risk / loss / worth
3. sustainable / harsh / implied / harder
4. captivated / disabled / engaged / wrong
5. lethargic / slow / right / corrupt
View AnswerAns:
1. decision
2. stake
3. harder
4. wrong
5. right
No discussion of the factors and forces at work on a failed policy can ignore the central fact of human ego investment. Men who have participated in a decision develop a stake in that decision. As they participate in further, related decisions, their stake increases. It might have been possible to dissuade a man of strong self-confidence at an early stage of the ladder of decision; but it is infinitely harder at later stages since a change of mind there usually involves implicit or explicit repudiation of a chain of previous decisions. At the heart of a policy-based calamity is a group of able, dedicated men who have been regularly and repeatedly proven wrong and whose standing with their contemporaries, and more important, with history, depends, as they see it, on being proven right. These are not men who can be asked to extricate themselves from error.
A failed policy is the result of high stakes developed by people who participated over a period of time in sustained decision making. Even if they are wrong, they fight hard so as to prove themselves right.
Q3: Below is a text with blanks. Fill the appropriate answer choice from the given options for each blank.
Sanwa, one of California's largest banks, has a network of more than 100 branches state-wide providing personal, business, international, and trust services that require up–to–the–minute information on ____(1)_____ rates, credit data, and marketing promotions. When it evaluated numerous content management solutions, the governing concerns were ease-of-use, data _____(2)_____, and enabling constant content updates while protecting the overall integrity of the intranet. The bank needed a content management ____(3)_____ that would allow employees to change their sections of the corporate intranet immediately, without help from IT. It is a common issue because an IT bottleneck _______(4)____ efficiency and frustrates both intranet content contributors and users trying to access the latest ________(5)_____.
Given below are the answer choices for the blanks in the passage. Choose one option for each blank.
1. adjusted / lending / contracted / selling
2. peculiarities / productivity / source / integration
3. catalogue / department / system / team
4. promotes / thwarts / reflects / produces
5. language / information / competence / interpretation
View AnswerAns:
1. lending
2. integration
3. system
4. thwarts
5. information
Sanwa, one of California's largest banks, has a network of more than 100 branches state-wide providing personal, business, international, and trust services that require up–to–the–minute information on lending rates, credit data, and marketing promotions. When it evaluated numerous content management solutions, the governing concerns were ease-of-use, data integration, and enabling constant content updates while protecting the overall integrity of the intranet. The bank needed a content management system that would allow employees to change their sections of the corporate intranet immediately, without help from IT. It is a common issue because an IT bottleneck thwarts efficiency and frustrates both intranet content contributors and users trying to access the latest information.
The customers require up–to–the–minute information on the bank's lending rates etc. A system has to be developed for data integration without the help of IT. IT bottleneck thwarts efficiency as well as availability of latest information.
Q4: Below is a text with blanks. Fill the appropriate answer choice from the given options for each blank.
Advertising has drowned out nature's meek hymn with the blare of bill boards. We have turned nature into a painted hag crying 'come buy'. ____(1)_____ inspiration is entrusted to weak human beings who can be tempted with gold. _____(2)_____ is nothing but trafficking in lovely youth! There are droves of silly girls and boys, sufficiently cursed with beauty, who troop into cities each month, to be stained and scarred. A few find ashy successes in the hardening life of a ____(3)_____. When will someone tell these babies that for each girl or boy who _______(4)____ on a magazine, over a hundred weep in back rooms and that even the grin is a bought and forced thing that fades with the flash of the ________(5)_____ bulb, leaving a face grim with scheming or heart break?
Given below are the answer choices for the blanks in the passage. Choose one option for each blank.
1. Motivational / Realistic / Artistic / Transparent
2. Art / Branding / Pageant / Advertising
3. salesman / clerk / advertiser / model
4. smokes / emerges / grins / shows up
5. photographer's / electric / marketer's / showman's
View AnswerAns:
1. Artistic
2. Advertising
3. model
4. grins
5. photographer's
Advertising has drowned out nature's meek hymn with the blare of bill boards. We have turned nature into a painted hag crying 'come buy'. Artistic inspiration is entrusted to weak human beings who can be tempted with gold. Advertising is nothing but trafficking in lovely youth! There are droves of silly girls and boys, sufficiently cursed with beauty, who troop into cities each month, to be stained and scarred. A few find ashy successes in the hardening life of a model. When will someone tell these babies that for each girl or boy who grins on a magazine, over a hundred weep in back rooms and that even the grin is a bought and forced thing that fades with the flash of the photographer's bulb, leaving a face grim with scheming or heart break?
The text shows advertising in poor light where the artistic inspiration is not art but money, and describes models as silly girls and boys. For one model grinning on a magazine cover, there are hundreds that are sobbing in their failure.
Q5: Below is a text with blanks. Fill the appropriate answer choice from the given options for each blank.
____(1)_____ is a quality that large business enterprises require as much as small start–ups and much more today than ever before. The challenge for large corporates is to turbo-charge the entrepreneurial spirit in the organisation. One way is to structure large _____(2)_____ in small entrepreneurial islands within. Such a structure would be more conducive to pursue experiments, to ____(3)_____, to develop cutting edge products, to dream new and better ways of running the business and creating value in an unfettered manner. In essence, to create _______(4)____ leaders – people who are perpetually willing to step out-of-the-box, think laterally and go that extra mile to make a huge positive impact on the organisation. The idea is to have 'employee entrepreneurs' and ________(5)_____ in business, rather than just employees.
Given below are the answer choices for the blanks in the passage. Choose one option for each blank.
1. Business / Entrepreneurship / Management / Organisation
2. business / enterprise / organisations / landmasses
3. innovate / processed / productivity / servicing
4. immediate / bad / useful / thought
5. employers / success / employees / partners
View AnswerAns:
1. Entrepreneurship
2. organisations
3. innovate
4. thought
5. partners
Entrepreneurship is a quality that large business enterprises require as much as small start–ups and much more today than ever before. The challenge for large corporates is to turbo-charge the entrepreneurial spirit in the organisation. One way is to structure large organisations in small entrepreneurial islands within. Such a structure would be more conducive to pursue experiments, to innovate, to develop cutting edge products, to dream new and better ways of running the business and creating value in an unfettered manner. In essence, to create thought leaders – people who are perpetually willing to step out-of-the-box, think laterally and go that extra mile to make a huge positive impact on the organisation. The idea is to have 'employee entrepreneurs' and partners in business, rather than just employees.
Large business organisations should promote entrepreneurship among employees so that they can innovate and emerge as thought leaders and partners in business.
Reading: Multiple Choice, Choose Multiple Answers
Q6: Read the text and answer the question by choosing correct options. More than one option is correct.
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the rich. We cannot really have an adequate understanding of the future without some view about how well the lives of the poor can be expected to go. Is there, then, hope for the poor? To answer this question, we need an understanding of who should count as poor. Some types of poverty are easy enough to identify. But deprivation can take many different forms. Economic poverty is not the only kind of poverty that impoverishes human lives.
In identifying the poor, we must take note, for example, of the deprivation of citizens of authoritarian regimes, from Sudan to North Korea, who are denied political liberty and civil rights. And we must try to understand the predicament of subjugated homemakers in male–dominated societies, common in Asia and Africa; of the illiterate children who are offered no opportunity of schooling; of minority groups who have to keep their voices muffled for fear of the tyranny of the majority; and of dissidents who are imprisoned and sometimes tortured by the guardians of 'law and order'. Those who like to keep issues straight and narrow tend to resist broadening the definition of poverty. Why not just look at income and ask a question like "How many people live on less than, say $1 or $2 a day?" But human lives can be impoverished in many different ways. Politically un-free citizens, whether rich or poor, are deprived of a basic constituent of prosperity. Nor can we ignore the linkages between economic, political and social deprivations.
What, as per the text, are the basic constituents of prosperity?
Options:
1. Freedom from male subjugation in matriarchic communities
2. Freedom from political dissidence and tyranny
3. Political liberty and civil rights
4. Reduction of economic deprivation as the most overriding factor
5. Benefit of economic, political and social liberty
View AnswerAns: (3,5)
(1) and (2) are self-contradictory ('in matriarchic communities' and 'freedom from political dissidence'); (4) is corrupted by 'the most overriding factor'.
Reading: Re-order Paragraphs
Q7: The text items below have been placed in a random order. Restore the original order by Choosing the correct sequence.
1. Introversion can also indicate someone who enjoys "living in their head," reflecting on ideas, thoughts or memories.
2. Introversion is the opposite of outgoing and action oriented personality style, and reflects the tendency to be more thought-oriented and withdrawn.
3. Introverts may enjoy company in small groups rather than large crowds and are often comfortable being alone.
4. However, introversion doesn't always mean the same thing as being shy.
View AnswerAns:
2. Introversion is the opposite of outgoing and action oriented personality style, and reflects the tendency to be more thought-oriented and withdrawn.
4. However, introversion doesn't always mean the same thing as being shy.
1. Introversion can also indicate someone who enjoys "living in their head," reflecting on ideas, thoughts or memories.
3. Introverts may enjoy company in small groups rather than large crowds and are often comfortable being alone.
Sentence 2 introduces introversion as the opposite of some other personality type, and defines the term. Sentence 4 (however, not shy) links with sentence 2 (thought-oriented and withdrawn).
Sentence 1 follows with 'can also Indicate'. Sentence 3 concludes, moving from introversion to Introvert, clarifying that 'not outgoing (Seritence 2) does not mean 'no group activity".
Q8: The text items below have been placed in a random order. Restore the original order by Choosing the correct sequence.
1. This independence created by philosophical insight is the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
2. Knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering.
3. Some scientists have mistakenly disparaged the entire field of science studies, claiming that it was undermining public confidence in science by denying that scientific theories were objectively true.
4. The actual story of how science evolves results in inspiring more confidence in science, not less.
5. Even some professional scientists seem like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.
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3. Some scientists have mistakenly disparaged the entire field of science studies, claiming that it was undermining public confidence in science by denying that scientific theories were objectively true.
5. Even some professional scientists seem like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.
2. Knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering.
1. This independence created by philosophical insight is the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
4. The actual story of how science evolves results in inspiring more confidence in science, not less.
It is very easy to work out the correct arrangement by forming pairs of connected sentences. This independence' in sentence 1 refers to 'that kind of independence' in sentence 2, giving us the 2-1 pair.
'Even some professional scientists' in sentence 5 connects with 'some scientists' in sentence 3, giving us the 3-5 pair. 'More confidence in science, not less', seems to conclude the argument started with 'undermining confidence in science in sentence 3. Thus, sentence 3 introduces the argument, giving us the sequence 3-5-2-1-4.
Reading: Fill in the Blanks
Q9: In the text below some words are missing. choose words from the given options appropriate place in the text.
We need a shift in ___(1)___ and individual attitudes. More often than not, our social environment tends to suppress precisely those ___(2)___ that are prized highly in an entrepreneurial culture. For instance, we still remain largely driven by a credential–oriented ___(3)___ that hinders an individual's educational and professional path. Striking out in an unknown direction is ____(4)____ upon and failure entails a very heavy price.
Options: (morals / frowned / societal / society / looked / attributes / mentality)
View AnswerAns:
1. societal
2. attributes
3. mentality
4. frowned
We need a shift in societal and individual attitudes. More often than not, our social environment tends to suppress precisely those attributes that are prized highly in an entrepreneurial culture. For instance, we still remain largely driven by a credential–oriented mentality that hinders an individual's educational and professional path. Striking out in an unknown direction is frowned upon and failure entails a very heavy price.
The text states that promoting entrepreneurial culture needs change in our societal and individual attitudes. Our society suppresses entrepreneurial culture; we still have credential-oriented mentality; we still frown upon novelty and failure.
Q10: In the text below some words are missing. choose words from the given options appropriate place in the text.
People must be made _____(1)____ of the phenomenon of global warming. The vaporous by-products of human activities create ______(2)_____, like carbon dioxide (CO2), which traps vast amount of _____(3)_____ resulting in the increase of earth's temperature, which boosts sea level, and shifts seasons. Floods, rains, droughts etc. indicate _____(4)____ of seasons but not so under El Nino. Increase of two degrees in global warming can cause _____(5)____.
Options: (pattern / failures / aware / heat / accountable / havoc / moods, gas)
View AnswerAns:
1. aware
2. gas
3. heat
4. pattern
5. havoc
People must be made aware of the phenomenon of global warming. The vaporous by-products of human activities create gas, like carbon dioxide (CO2), which traps vast amount of heat resulting in the increase of earth's temperature, which boosts sea level, and shifts seasons. Floods, rains, droughts etc. indicate pattern of seasons but not so under El Nino. Increase of two degrees in global warming can cause havoc.
We must be aware of how we are responsible for global warming, creating heat inducing gases. There are seasonal patterns of floods and droughts that cause havoc.
Q11: In the text below some words are missing. choose words from the given options appropriate place in the text.
The Japanese archipelago assumed its present shape around 10,000 years ago. Soon after, the _____(1)____ known as the Jomon period began and continued for about 8,000 years. Its people were ______(2)_____. Gradually, they formed small communities and began to _____(3)____ their lives communally. They also began to use earthenware objects. Rice ____(4)____ reached Japan from Eurasia around 300 BC and settlements grew large.
Options: (harvesters / epoch / celebrate / cultivation / era / organise / hunter-gatherers)
View AnswerAns:
1. era
2. hunter-gatherers
3. organise
4. cultivation
The Japanese archipelago assumed its present shape around 10,000 years ago. Soon after, the era known as the Jomon period began and continued for about 8,000 years. Its people were hunter-gatherers. Gradually, they formed small communities and began to organise their lives communally. They also began to use earthenware objects. Rice cultivation reached Japan from Eurasia around 300 BC and settlements grew large.
The text is about Japan’s history. In the Jomon era, people were hunter-gatherers; later they organised their lives communally and started rice cultivation.
Q12: In the text below some words are missing. choose words from the given options appropriate place in the text.
Since ancient times, bamboo has given form to the expression of tribal art and provided them _____(1)_____. Many useful as well as decorative items are made out of these. Baskets and mats are the most _____(2)_____ items in this category. Fishing equipment is made from bamboo, each with a distinct ____(3)_____. Bamboo and leaf headgear for tea garden workers and farmers is one of the most familiar and _____(4)____ after products. A variety of ______(5)_____ items are also made nowadays to suit the modern homes.
Options: (popular, dull, furniture, aware, kind, livelihood, sought, shape)
View AnswerAns:
1. livelihood
2. popular
3. shape
4. sought
5. furniture
Since ancient times, bamboo has given form to the expression of tribal art and provided them livelihood. Many useful as well as decorative items are made out of these. Baskets and mats are the most popular items in this category. Fishing equipment is made from bamboo, each with a distinct shape. Bamboo and leaf headgear for tea garden workers and farmers is one of the most familiar and sought after products. A variety of furniture items are also made nowadays to suit the modern homes.
Bamboo art has traditionally provided livelihood to the tribals. Baskets and mats are quite popular. Bamboo fishing equipment has a distinct shape and the headgear is one of the most sought after products along with bamboo furniture.
Q13: In the text below some words are missing. choose words from the given options appropriate place in the text.
The "little about everything" is best interpreted in general education an informed individual _____(1)___ to have. More is required than a sampling of the introductory courses which specialists offer in their own _____(2)_____. Courses are needed in each of the major divisions of knowledge - the humanities, the _____(3)_____ sciences, and social sciences - that competent staffs who _____(4)_____ the needs of interested amateurs consider necessary. Beyond the "little about everything", students should bite deeply into at least one _____(5)____ and taste its full flavour.
Options: (core / correct / ought / natural / observe / disciplines / understand / subject)
View AnswerAns:
1. ought
2. disciplines
3. natural
4. understand
5. subject
The "little about everything" is best interpreted in general education an informed individual ought to have. More is required than a sampling of the introductory courses which specialists offer in their own disciplines. Courses are needed in each of the major divisions of knowledge - the humanities, the natural sciences, and social sciences - that competent staffs who understand the needs of interested amateurs consider necessary. Beyond the "little about everything", students should bite deeply into at least one subject and taste its full flavour.
The text is about the two forms of education, general and specialist, which an individual ought to have. General understanding across disciplines (the humanities, the natural sciences, and social sciences) is required along with deep knowledge of at least one subject.
Reading: Multiple Choice, Choose Single Answer
Q14: Read the text and answer the question by choosing correct options. Only one option is correct.
Every one of us knows the sensation of going up on retreat. In such a place, in such a state, we start to recite the standard litany; that silence is sunshine, where company is clouds; that silence is rapture, where company is doubt; that silence is golden, where company is brass.
But silence is not so easily won. For Herman Melville, though, silence meant darkness and hopelessness. Devastated by the silence that greeted his heartfelt novels, he retired into a public silence. Then, just before his death, he came forth with his final utterance—the luminous tale of Billy Budd—and showed that silence is only as worthy as what we can bring back from it.
What is the main idea conveyed by the passage?
1. Whether silence is gold or brass depends on one's personality.
2. Silence is a heavenly bliss – a sunshine to be enjoyed.
3. Silence is not necessarily golden.
4. Silence is best enjoyed in the lap of nature or in creative pursuits.
View AnswerAns: (3)
The first paragraph sings paeans for silence; the second concludes - 'silence is only as worthy as what we can bring back from it'. That means silence is not necessarily always golden.
Q15: Read the text and answer the question by choosing correct options. Only one option is correct.
The historical importance of the Revolution of 1688 – the 'Glorious Revolution' – has inevitably fluctuated in the process of constant reinterpretation by successive generations. Especially when compared with modern revolutions, it seems rather to resemble a palace coup than a genuine shift of social or political power. Yet it had important and enduring consequences, not less significant than those of more spectacular convulsions. Even the relative absence of physical violence can be exaggerated. In Scotland, the supporters of the deposed king had to be crushed by force of arms. In Ireland there was positively a blood–bath.
In what respect was the Glorious Revolution truly glorious?
1. In its long term implications
2. In its swift and decisive results
3. In its establishment of the Scottish and Irish psyche
4. In its interpretation and reinterpretation
View AnswerAns: (1)
"Yet it had important and enduring consequences, not less significant than those of more spectacular convulsions" validates option (1). Option (2) is negated by 'than a genuine shift'. There is no mention of 'swift'.
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