Reading: Fill in the Blanks · Part 2: Reading

Language changes

43 students marked "I sat this"Added 16 Apr 2020Question #110195

Drag words into the blanks.

English has been changing throughout its lifetime and it's still changing today. For most of us, these changes are fine as long as they’re well and truly in the past. Paradoxically, we can be 1 about word origins and the stories behind the structures we find in our language, but we 2 a queasy distaste for any change that might be happening right under our noses. There are even language critics who are 3 that English is dying, or if not dying at least being progressively 4 through long years of mistreatment.

Word box (alphabetical)

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Reading: Fill in the Blanks format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Drag and Drop)

PromptText up to 80 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading

How it is scored

  • The box has more words than there are gaps.
  • Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.