Reading: Fill in the Blanks · Part 2: Reading

Fossil fuels

37 students marked "I sat this"Added 13 Dec 2020Question #110328

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But look beyond fossil fuels for the most intriguing trends. One is that the energy intensity of the world economy — the amount of energy it takes to produce one dollar’s worth of 1 — keeps falling, at a rate of about 2 percent. What this means is that even without any change in the 2 shares of fossil-based and fossil-free sources in the world’s energy mix, we could have 2 percent annual economic growth without increasing carbon emissions from energy use. Of course that is not enough to 3 climate change and we need more economic growth than that. It is 4 a stunning number, which refutes the claim by some environmentalists that permanent economic growth is fundamentally incompatible 5 finite physical resources.

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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.