PTE Reading Practice Test 5
Question Type : Reading & Writing : Fill In The Blanks
Look at the text below with blanks. Choose the appropriate word from the
provided lists for each blank.
Sample 1:
Sales jobs allow for a great deal of discretionary time and effort on the part of the
sales representatives - especially when compared with managerial, manufacturing,
and service jobs. Most sales representatives work independently and outside the
immediate presence of their sales managers. Therefore, some form of goals needs
to be in place to motivate and _______________ their performance. Sales personnel
are not the only professionals with performance goals or quotas. Health care
professionals operating in clinics have daily, weekly, and monthly goals in terms of
patient visits. Service personnel are assigned a number of service calls they must
________________ during a set time period. Production workers in manufacturing
have output goals. So, why are achieving sales goals or quotas such a big deal?
The answer to this question can be found by examining how a firm's other
departments are affected by how well the company's salespeople achieve their
performance goals. The success of the business _______________ the successful
sales of its products and services. Consider all the planning, the financial, production
and marketing efforts that go into ___________________ ________________ the
sales force sells. Everyone depends on the sales force to sell the company's
products and services and they eagerly anticipate knowing things are going.
1. Guide, mislead, stimulate, evaluate
2. Achieve, perform, finish, compete
3. hinges on, contributes to, leads to, results in
4. Producing, consuming, protecting, purchasing
5. What, where, when, that
Sample 2:
In an attempt to ____________ new students, leading business schools - including
Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago and Wharton – have moved away from
the unofficial admissions and ________________ of four years’ work experience and
________________ have set their sights on recent college graduates and so-called
‘early career ‘_________________ with only a couple years of work under the
_________________.
1. Lure, motivate, stimulate, encourage
2. Exclusion, prerequisite, offer, preliminary
3. Preferably, despite, instead, rather
4. Professionals, employees, graduates, elites
5. Belt, contract, experience, control
Question Type: Re-order Paragraph
Several text boxes appear on the screen in a random order. Put the text boxes
in the correct order.
Sample 3:
A. Over the years, I have had the opportunities to observe and understand the
thought process behind the ads that have been
flooding both the print and the TV.
B.Proportionally, the numbers of ads that lack in quality have gone up exponentially
as well.
C.There is an increasing attempt by most companies to be seen as cool and funky.
D. Another reason could be the burgeoning number of companies, which means an
exponential increase in the number of ads that
are being made.
E. Although there is a huge shift in the quality of ads that we come across on daily
basis - thanks essentially to improvement in
technology - I somehow can't help but feel that the quality of communication of the
message has become diluted.
Sample 4:
A. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the people of San Francisco were awakened by an
earthquakethat would devastate the city.
B. The fire, lasting four days, most likely started with broken gas lines and, in some
cases, was helped along by people hoping to
collect insurance for their property—they were covered for fire, but not earthquake,
damage.
C.But when calculating destruction, the earthquake took second place to the great
fire that followed.
D. The main temblor, having a 7.7–7.9 magnitude, lasted about one minute and was
the result of the rupturing of the northernmost
296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas fault.
Sample 5:
Reading and Writing: Fill in the blanks
All approaches aim to increase blood flow to areas _________ tension and to
release painful knots of muscle known as "trigger points". "Trigger points are tense
areas of muscle that are almost constantly contracting," says Kippen. "The
contraction causes pain, which ________ turn causes contraction, so you have a
vicious circle. This is what deep tissue massage aims to break. "The way
__________ do this, as I found out under Ogedengbe's elbow, is to apply
pressure to the point, stopping the blood flow, and then to release, which causes the
brain to flood the affected area __________ blood, encouraging the muscle to relax.
At the same time, says Kippen, you can fool the tensed muscle ____________
relaxing by applying pressure to a complementary one nearby. "If you cause any
muscle to contract, its opposite will expand. So you try to trick the body into relaxing
the muscle that is in spasm.”
1. Of, in, with, at
2. In, with, to, for
3. With, by, to, on
4. By, with, in, at
5. Into, with, on, at
Answers
Sample 1:
1. Guide
2. Perform
3. Hinges on
4. Producing
5. what
Sample 2:
1. Lure
2. Prerequisite
3. Instead
4. Professional
5. Belt
Sample 3:
AECDB
Sample 4:
ADCB
Sample 5:
1. Of
2. In
3. To
4. With
5. Into
