Listening: Fill in the Blanks · Part 3: Listening

"Touchdown confirmed. We are safe on Mars.…

15 students marked "I sat this"Added 19 Apr 2019Question #151056

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"Touchdown confirmed. We are safe on Mars. ...... The control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion 1 late in the evening of August 5th, Pacific time, when word arrived that the Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars. The one-ton rover, which dwarfs all Mars landers that came before it, will now spend a planned two years 2 the Martian surface. The mission is expected to cost $2.5 billion. Curiosity's task is to investigate the inside of Gale Crater, where a giant mound of sedimentary 3 may provide evidence of a wetter, possibly habitable Mars billions of years ago. But first it had to survive an elaborate landing 4, which appears to have gone smoothly. Curiosity landed on time and on target and soon beamed back grainy photos of its wheels and its shadow. Given the carlike size of the rover and the challenges of landing on Mars, Curiosity's 5 goes down as one of the greatest parking jobs in history.

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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.