Listening: Fill in the Blanks · Part 3: Listening

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13 students marked "I sat this"Added 12 Aug 2018Question #151109

Type the missing words.

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Transcript with gaps

In 1962, an English political scientist and 1 by the name of Bernard Crick wrote a short and very polemical and 2 little book called In Defense of Politics, and by politics Crick meant a distinctive type of human activity where 3 of interests among groups are adjudicated by discussion, persuasion and debate rather than by force or by 4.

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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.