Listening: Fill in the Blanks · Part 3: Listening

Carbon-rich soils

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Type the missing words.

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Transcript with gaps

Rebuilding carbon-rich agriculture soils is the only real productive, 1, solution to taking excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. She’s 2 that scientists and politicians don’t see the same opportunities she sees. This year Australia will 3 just over 600 million tonnes of carbon. We can sequester 685 million tonnes of carbon by 4 soil carbon by half a percent on only 2% of the farms. If we increased it on all of the farms, we could sequester the 5 world’s emissions of carbon.

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Listening: Fill in the Blanks format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Type In)

PromptRecording of 30–60 seconds
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 3 lasts 31–39 minutes)
Skills assessedListening

How it is scored

  • Each correct word, spelled correctly, scores 1 point.
  • The recording plays only once.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 3: Listening, checked 9 October 2026.