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

Bees food

47 students marked "I sat this"Added 9 May 2020Question #120144

Choose the word for each blank.

Bees need two different kinds of food. One is honey made from nectar, which actually is a fluid that is collected in the heart of the flowers to 1 pollination by insects and other animals. Secondly, come from pollen, it is fine powdery substance in yellow, consisting of microscopic grains 2 from the male part of a flower or from a male cone. It contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule, which is 3 by wind, insects or other animals. Let us go with the honeybee from her flower to the hive and see what happens. Most bees gather only pollen or nectar. As she sucks nectar from the flower, it is 4 in her special honey stomach ready to be transferred to the honey-making bees in the live.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 discourage · encourage · promote · spread
  • 2 saved · started · stole · stored
  • 3 admitted · changed · transferred · translated
  • 4 discarded · resolved · stored · treated
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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.