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
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nervous
convey
sensory
function
reflexes
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state
struggle
source
energy
recruitment
biased
originate
1. Nervous/ convey/ sensory/ functions/ reflexes
2. state/ struggle/ source/ engages/ recruitment/ biased/ originate
1. nervous, convey, censoring, function, reflexes.
2. state, struggle, source, engages, equipment, biased, originate.
1. nervous, convey, censoring, function, reflexes.
2. state, struggle, source, engages, equipment, biased, originate.
nervous, convey,sensory,functions,reflexes
state, struggle, source, engages, recruitment,biased, originates
Nervous,convey,sensory,functions,reflexes
State,struggle, source,engages, recruitment,biased,originate
nervous,convey,sensory,functions,reflexes
state,struggle,source,engages,recruitment,baised,originate
nervous, convey, sensory, functions, reflexes
state, struggle, source, engages, recruitment, biased, originate
very easy to understand
nervous,convey,sensory,function,reflexes
space,struggle,source,eneages,recuritment,based,originate.