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

Paraphrasing

22 students marked "I sat this"Added 9 Jun 2022Question #120289

Choose the word for each blank.

Paraphrasing is often defined as putting a passage from an author into your own words. However, what are your own words? How different must your paraphrase be from the 1? The answer is it should be considerably different. The whole point of paraphrasing is to show you have read and understood another person's ideas, and can summarize them in your own writing style rather than 2 their phrases. If you just change a few words, or add some bits of your own to an 3 reproduced passage, you will probably be penalized for plagiarism. You should aim to condense and simplify a writer's ideas and describe them 4 different sentence structures and expressions. 5 also important to credit the original writer by referencing.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 following · original · other · rest
  • 2 borrow · borrowing · lease · lend
  • 3 newly · otherwise · thus · totally
  • 4 to use · use · used · using
  • 5 It is · there are · these are · they are
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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.