PTE Reading Fill In The Blanks Practice Questions – In the text below some words are missing. Choose the correct word to fill each blank from the box below. There are more words than you need to complete the exercise.
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PTE Reading Fill In The Blanks Practice Test 16
Question 1 – PTE Reading Fill In The Blanks Practice Question
summit, grains, rich, fertile, surface, nourishment, clouds, planting
Wind-blown (1)__________ of sand from dunes may carry far inland, covering fields and diverting streams. More seriously, drifting sands can bury whole buildings and transform (2)__________ land into desert. However, dunes can be made more stable by the artificial (3)__________ of marram grass, a plant so robust that it can find (4)__________ even in sand. The grass spreads over the (5)__________ of the dune, protecting it against wind, while its roots bind the sand together.
Answer –
1. grains (Grains of sand is a collection)
2. fertile (We need an adjective to describe land and to contrast with desert)
3. planting (We need a gerund to refer to putting plants in the ground)
4. nourishment (We need a noun to refer to what this plant gets from sand)
5. surface (This refers to where the grass is, in contrast to the roots under the surface)
Question 2 – PTE Reading Fill In The Blanks Practice Question
established, to-date, contains, interact, strikingly, deciphering, turned, revealed, self-assembled, sought
In the current study, researchers (1)__________ to find out the mechanisms that caused patterns to form. The researchers (2)__________ the structure of Au246, on eof the largest and most complex nanoparticles created by scientists (3)__________ and the largest gold nanoparticle to have its structure determined by X-ray crystallography. Ay246 (4)__________ out to be an ideal candidate for (5)__________ the complex rules of self-assembly because it (6)__________ an ideal number of atoms and surface ligands and is about the same size and weight as a protein molecule.
Analysis of Au246’s structure (7)__________ that the particles had much more in common with biomolecules than size. They found that the ligands in the nanoparticles (8)__________ into rotational and parallel patterns that are (9)__________ similar to the patterns found in protein’s secondary structure. This could indicate that nanoparticles of this size could easily (10)__________ with biological systems, providing new avenues for drug discovery.
Answers – 1. sought 2. established 3. to-date 4. turned 5. deciphering 6. contains 7. revealed 8. self-assembled 9. strikingly 10. interact
