Listening: Fill in the Blanks · Part 3: Listening

Burials

16 students marked "I sat this"Added 12 May 2023Question #151138

Type the missing words.

Audio question

Transcript with gaps

So between 4,000 and 3,000 BC the Mesopotamian Samarian cultures do not 1 any kind of burial. And then, about 3,000, in the early Dynastic Period, these burials start to reappear, and they reappear with a certain amount of 2 consumption, and this is the context for the royal burials at Ur. OK, so, the royal 3 erm, consists of quite a number of pits, so these are little people, um, these are the, er, 4 workers who are coming down into the pits. So you get some sense of how really deep and how really difficult it was to construct these 5.

Practise this question with AI scoringAll 187 Listening: Fill in the Blanks questions

Opens question #151138 in the RealPTE practice screen.

More Listening: Fill in the Blanks questions

#151131SelfLFIB3220 students marked "I sat this"#151132SelfLFIB3319 students marked "I sat this"#151133SelfLFIB3415 students marked "I sat this"#151134SelfLFIB3520 students marked "I sat this"#151135SelfLFIB3626 students marked "I sat this"#151136SelfLFIB3725 students marked "I sat this"#150002Laurence Stephen Lowry329 students marked "I sat this"#150003Animals284 students marked "I sat this"#150004CEO196 students marked "I sat this"#150005Bored in class147 students marked "I sat this"#150006Bar code scanners136 students marked "I sat this"#150007Integrated Ticket118 students marked "I sat this"

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.