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PTE Quiz – Listening – Fill In the Blanks

This section is PTE Listening Fill In The Blanks, for this item type you are presented with a transcript of the audio recording, however, some words are missing. Restore the transcript by typing in the missing words.

You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.

The spinal cord – the link between the brain and the body – is a band of (1) __________ tissue about the thickness of your Little finger that runs through the backbone. Nerve cells called motor neurons (2) __________  electric impulses that travel from the brain to the spinal cord, branching off at the appropriate point and passing to the various parts of the body. Similarly, (3) __________ neurons transmit messages from organs and tissues via the spinal cord to the brain. But the spinal cord also (4) ___________ without the brain having to intervene; it alone controls those actions called spinal (5) __________ that need to be carried out very fast in response to danger.

nervous; convey; sensory; functions; reflexes

You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.

The growth of the modern (1) ___________ brought with it the development of mass political parties and the emergence of professional politicians. A man whose occupation is the (2) ___________ for  political power may go about it in two ways. First, a person who relies on their political activities to supply their main (3) ___________ of income is said to live off politics, while a person who (4) __________ in full-time political activities, but who doesn’t receive an income from it, is said to live for politics. Now, a political system in which (5) __________ to positions of power is filled by those who live for politics is necessarily drawn from a property-owning elite, who are not usually entrepreneurs. However, this is not to imply that such politicians will necessarily pursue policies which are wholly (6) __________ towards the interests of the class they (7) __________ from.

state; struggle; source; engages; recruitment; biased; originate

2019-08-11T12:14:31+10:00

10 Comments

  1. chandu536834 May 25, 2019 at 12:12 pm - Reply

    1.
    nervous
    convey
    sensory
    function
    reflexes

    2.
    state
    struggle
    source
    energy
    recruitment
    biased
    originate

  2. Mpaul May 26, 2019 at 8:11 am - Reply

    1. Nervous/ convey/ sensory/ functions/ reflexes
    2. state/ struggle/ source/ engages/ recruitment/ biased/ originate

  3. Firoz Akan May 26, 2019 at 8:23 am - Reply

    1. nervous, convey, censoring, function, reflexes.
    2. state, struggle, source, engages, equipment, biased, originate.

  4. Firoz Alam May 26, 2019 at 8:24 am - Reply

    1. nervous, convey, censoring, function, reflexes.
    2. state, struggle, source, engages, equipment, biased, originate.

  5. karamjit May 27, 2019 at 9:47 pm - Reply

    nervous, convey,sensory,functions,reflexes

    state, struggle, source, engages, recruitment,biased, originates

  6. jasssandhu07 May 28, 2019 at 12:08 am - Reply

    Nervous,convey,sensory,functions,reflexes
    State,struggle, source,engages, recruitment,biased,originate

  7. Ramandeep kaur June 29, 2019 at 3:23 pm - Reply

    nervous,convey,sensory,functions,reflexes
    state,struggle,source,engages,recruitment,baised,originate

  8. Isata Kamara August 16, 2019 at 5:59 pm - Reply

    nervous, convey, sensory, functions, reflexes
    state, struggle, source, engages, recruitment, biased, originate

  9. jaspreet September 7, 2019 at 9:18 am - Reply

    very easy to understand

  10. jaspreet September 7, 2019 at 9:20 am - Reply

    nervous,convey,sensory,function,reflexes
    space,struggle,source,eneages,recuritment,based,originate.

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