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

Super intelligence

27 students marked "I sat this"Added 12 May 2020Question #120234

Choose the word for each blank.

A super intelligence is any intellect that is vastly outperforms the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. This definition leaves open how the super intelligence 1 – it could be in a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue, or something else. On this definition, Deep Blue is not a super intelligence, since it is only smart within one narrow domain chess, and even there it is not vastly superior 2 the best humans. Entities such as corporations or the scientific community are not super intelligence either. Although they can perform a number of intellectual feats 3 which no individual human is capable, they are not sufficiently integrated to count as “intellects”, and there are many fields 4 they perform much worse than single humans. For example, you cannot have a real-time conversation with “the scientific community”. is implemented to 5.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 has been implemented · has implemented · implements · is implemented
  • 2 any · some · than · to
  • 3 in · of · off · out
  • 4 in which · when · who · whom
  • 5 completely · partly · possibly · sufficiently
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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.