Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks · Part 2: Reading

Dictatorship

37 students marked "I sat this"Added 9 May 2020Question #120143

Choose the word for each blank.

Dictatorship is not a modern concept. Two thousand years ago, during the period of the Roman Republic, exceptional powers were sometimes given by the Senate to 1 dictators such as Sulla and Julius Caesar. The 2 was that the dictatorship would be temporary and that it would make it POSSIBLE to take swift and effective action to deal with an emergency. There is some 3 as to how the term should be 4 today. Should it be used in its original form to describe the temporary exercise of emergency powers? Or can it now be applied in a much broader sense-as common usage suggests?

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 group · individual · others · special
  • 2 intent · intention · international · sample
  • 3 agreement · disagreement · moment · treatment
  • 4 agreed · applied · regretted · replied
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Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown)

PromptText up to 200 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading, Writing

How it is scored

  • Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.

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