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PTE Core Reading Fill in the Blanks: Original Practice and Answers | Lengqishui

Practise PTE Core reading fill in the blanks with three original texts, explained answers and rejected options. Compare Reading & Writing dropdown blanks with the Reading word bank and check grammar, collocations and context.

Collapse the reference and record each word on paper first. Answers start expanded, and all materials and explanations are directly readable. This is readable practice with no dropdown, drag control, scoring or response storage.

Example 1 · FIBRW

Book collection: form, collocation and a clear condition

60 words · 3 blanks · Separate options per gap

Each blank has its own four options. Check both sides of the gap and the condition stated in the final sentence.

English passage with numbered gaps

To collect reserved books, each resident must (1) _____ a confirmation email at the desk. Staff (2) _____ the email details with the reservation record before handing over the books. Residents who cannot arrive on the chosen date may collect them the following day (3) _____ they notify the library in advance. This extension is available only to residents who have given notice.

Separate options for each gap

  1. Gap 1
    • presence
    • presenting
    • present
    • presented
  2. Gap 2
    • borrow
    • compare
    • postpone
    • repair
  3. Gap 3
    • during
    • unless
    • provided
    • despite
Reference answers, evidence and self-checks (expand or collapse)

Complete text with reference answers

To collect reserved books, each resident must present a confirmation email at the desk. Staff compare the email details with the reservation record before handing over the books. Residents who cannot arrive on the chosen date may collect them the following day provided they notify the library in advance. This extension is available only to residents who have given notice.

Reference answers for original fictional practice, not official answers or a score report. Check the grammar, collocation and context behind each choice rather than memorising three words.

Check the evidence for each gap

  1. Gap 1 — present

    Complete English context
    To collect reserved books, each resident must present a confirmation email at the desk.

    Must takes the base form of a verb. Present a confirmation email means show it at the desk, fitting both the grammar and the collection procedure.

    Why not the distractors?

    Presence is a noun, presenting is an -ing form, and presented is a past form or participle. None can follow must directly before a confirmation email.

  2. Gap 2 — compare

    Complete English context
    Staff compare the email details with the reservation record before handing over the books.

    Compare A with B describes checking the email details against the reservation record. The two information sources and the check before releasing the books support compare.

    Why not the distractors?

    All four options are base verbs, so form alone is not enough. Borrow, postpone and repair do not describe checking two sets of information against each other in this procedure.

  3. Gap 3 — provided

    Complete English context
    Residents who cannot arrive on the chosen date may collect them the following day provided they notify the library in advance. This extension is available only to residents who have given notice.

    Provided introduces the condition that residents notify the library first. The next sentence explicitly limits the extension to residents who have given notice, ruling out the opposite condition introduced by unless.

    Why not the distractors?

    Unless would make collection possible without notice, contradicting the final sentence. During and despite cannot introduce the finite clause they notify directly in this construction.

Check your completed text

  • Can you explain why only present fits directly after must?
  • Can you justify compare using with and the two records, rather than meaning alone?
  • Does the condition after provided agree with the final sentence containing only?

Example 2 · FIBRW

Bicycle repair: verb form, adverb and paired requirements

56 words · 3 blanks · Separate options per gap

Use the sentence structure to identify each form, then reread the repair action and the checks required before returning a bicycle.

English passage with numbered gaps

At a bicycle workshop, a technician has already (1) _____ the worn brake cable. After the repair, the brake worked (2) _____, and it no longer needed repeated pulls to stop the wheel. A checklist requires both a brake test (3) _____ a tyre check before a bicycle is returned; completing only one of the two is not enough.

Separate options for each gap

  1. Gap 1
    • replacement
    • replace
    • replaced
    • replacing
  2. Gap 2
    • smoothness
    • smoothing
    • smooth
    • smoothly
  3. Gap 3
    • or
    • so
    • and
    • but
Reference answers, evidence and self-checks (expand or collapse)

Complete text with reference answers

At a bicycle workshop, a technician has already replaced the worn brake cable. After the repair, the brake worked smoothly, and it no longer needed repeated pulls to stop the wheel. A checklist requires both a brake test and a tyre check before a bicycle is returned; completing only one of the two is not enough.

Reference answers for original fictional practice, not official answers or a score report. Check the grammar, collocation and context behind each choice rather than memorising three words.

Check the evidence for each gap

  1. Gap 1 — replaced

    Complete English context
    At a bicycle workshop, a technician has already replaced the worn brake cable.

    Has already needs a past participle to form the present perfect. Replaced describes the completed repair referred to by After the repair in the next sentence.

    Why not the distractors?

    Replace is a base form and replacement is a noun. Replacing would need been in a present perfect continuous construction. Only replaced fits the sentence as written.

  2. Gap 2 — smoothly

    Complete English context
    After the repair, the brake worked smoothly, and it no longer needed repeated pulls to stop the wheel.

    The gap describes how the brake worked, so the adverb smoothly is needed. The second clause gives a concrete sign of smooth operation: repeated pulls were no longer necessary.

    Why not the distractors?

    Smooth is an adjective, smoothness a noun, and smoothing an -ing form. They do not modify worked in this standard written sentence as smoothly does.

  3. Gap 3 — and

    Complete English context
    A checklist requires both a brake test and a tyre check before a bicycle is returned; completing only one of the two is not enough.

    Both A and B requires both checks. The clause after the semicolon makes this explicit: completing only one is not enough, so the checks are not alternatives.

    Why not the distractors?

    Or offers alternatives and conflicts with both and the final clause. But expresses contrast and so a result; neither joins the two equally required checks in this structure.

Check your completed text

  • Have you justified replaced using has plus a past participle?
  • Can you distinguish the grammatical roles of smooth and smoothly?
  • Do both and only one ... is not enough jointly support and?

Example 3 · FIBR

Hall reopening: choose three words from one shared bank

64 words · 3 blanks · Shared word bank

Use only three of the six words, each at most once. Read the whole passage, then distinguish a noun position, a verb form and a common collocation.

English passage with numbered gaps

After a storm, the village hall remained closed for two days. Volunteers first swept broken branches from the path and checked the roof for structural (1) _____. They then placed signs at both entrances to (2) _____ residents that repair work was continuing. Once the entrance route was safe, the hall opened again, but its (3) _____ hours were shorter than usual until the repairs were complete.

Shared word bank (use three words, each at most once)

  • warned
  • opening
  • damage
  • closely
  • warn
  • damaged
Reference answers, evidence and self-checks (expand or collapse)

Complete text with reference answers

After a storm, the village hall remained closed for two days. Volunteers first swept broken branches from the path and checked the roof for structural damage. They then placed signs at both entrances to warn residents that repair work was continuing. Once the entrance route was safe, the hall opened again, but its opening hours were shorter than usual until the repairs were complete.

Reference answers for original fictional practice, not official answers or a score report. Check the grammar, collocation and context behind each choice rather than memorising three words.

Check the evidence for each gap

  1. Gap 1 — damage

    Complete English context
    Volunteers first swept broken branches from the path and checked the roof for structural damage.

    Structural damage describes harm to a structure. The adjective structural needs a noun, and the uncountable noun damage matches the inspection of a roof following a storm.

    Why not the distractors?

    Damaged is an adjective or participle with no following noun, and closely is an adverb. Opening in the sense of a physical gap is a singular count noun that would need a determiner such as a; it also does not match this damage inspection.

  2. Gap 2 — warn

    Complete English context
    They then placed signs at both entrances to warn residents that repair work was continuing.

    To takes a base verb to express purpose. Warn residents that ... explains the signs alerting visitors to continuing repairs.

    Why not the distractors?

    Warned cannot follow to here, and opening is an -ing form. Damage residents also cannot naturally take that repair work was continuing as the content of a notice.

  3. Gap 3 — opening

    Complete English context
    Once the entrance route was safe, the hall opened again, but its opening hours were shorter than usual until the repairs were complete.

    Opening hours is a common phrase for the times a place is open. Opened again and shorter than usual describe the reduced schedule during the remaining repair work.

    Why not the distractors?

    Closely is an adverb and cannot modify hours here. Warn, warned, damage and damaged do not form a natural phrase for an opening schedule in this sentence.

Check your completed text

  • Have you treated damage as a noun rather than choosing damaged by meaning alone?
  • Have you used the base form warn after to?
  • Have you checked the collocation opening hours and used each bank word no more than once?

Separate the two reading blank tasks

FIBRW uses a dropdown for each gap and assesses reading and writing. FIBR uses one shared word bank and assesses reading. Keep the operations and assessed skills distinct.

Justify every word you choose

Check structure and word form before collocations, surrounding sentences and conditions. A similar meaning or familiar-looking form is not enough on its own.

Check your choices in the complete passage

Reread the filled text to check actions, conditions and time. The reference explanations show why distractors fail, not just the three selected words.

Collapse the reference and answer on paper first

Two dropdown-style exercises provide four options per gap. One bank-style exercise uses three of six words. Explanations start open and can be collapsed; this page has no dropdown, drag control, scoring or response storage.

Explain the elimination at each blank

Find the structure around the gap, then check collocations and conditions in the whole passage. Open the reference to compare the complete English context and explain why the alternatives fail.

Reread the complete passage and move to task practice

Repair one word-form, collocation or condition error, then read the whole text. For interactive answering, open the existing task practice list and choose Reading & Writing Fill in the Blanks or Reading Fill in the Blanks.

What is the difference between PTE Core FIBRW and FIBR?

In Pearson’s current format, Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks provides a separate dropdown for each gap, uses text of up to 200 words and assesses reading and writing. Reading: Fill in the Blanks uses one bank with more options than gaps, uses text of up to 80 words and assesses reading only.

Must every reading blank be correct to earn credit?

No. The January 2026 official Score Guide awards partial credit for each correctly completed blank in both tasks. Raw blank credit cannot be converted directly into an overall score weight, and this page calculates or predicts no test score.

Can I select, drag or receive an automatic score here?

No. This is readable practice: record three words on paper, then expand or collapse the reference explanation to compare. There is no response storage or score calculation. Use the existing task practice entry for interactive answering.

Are these Pearson official question-bank items or real test questions?

No. The three passages, options, reference answers and explanations are original fictional materials created with AI assistance and have not received human expert review. They are not real test questions, recalled exam content, official answers or actual organisation procedures.

Why is word meaning alone not enough to choose an answer?

A meaning can occur in different forms and collocations. An option may also fit local grammar but contradict a condition in the next sentence. Check verb structure, prepositions, common word combinations and the complete context to justify a word in its particular gap.

About these practice materials

All three scenarios, texts, options, reference answers and explanations are original fictional practice materials created with AI assistance and have not received human expert review. They are not Pearson test questions, recalled exam content, official answers, candidate results or actual organisation policies. This page scores and stores no response and guarantees neither full credit nor improvement. Example word counts use spaces in the text filled with the reference answers; follow Pearson’s current guidance and instructions in the test.

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