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

Fresh water

55 students marked "I sat this"Added 18 May 2020Question #120248

Choose the word for each blank.

Everybody needs fresh water. 1 water people, animals & plants cannot live. Although a few plants and animals can make do with saltwater, all humans need a constant supply of fresh water to stay 2 & healthy. Of the total supply of water on the Earth, only about 3% of it is fresh, most of that is stored as ice snow at the poles, or is so 3 under the surface of the Earth that we cannot get to it. Despite so much of the water being out of reach, we still have a million cubic miles of it that we 4 use. That's about 4, 300,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater to share out between most of the plants, animals’ people on the planet.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 Lacking · Using · With · Without
  • 2 fit · hit · take · well
  • 3 creepy · dark · deep · shallow
  • 4 can · could · must · should
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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.