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

Radioactivity

13 students marked "I sat this"Added 8 Jan 2021Question #120301

Choose the word for each blank.

Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by the French physicist, Antoine Henri Becquerel. He left an unexposed photographic plate in the dark near a sample of a uranium salt. When the plate was 1 it was found to be 2 , just as it might if it had been exposed to light. which was caused by a form of radiation from the uranium.The term radioactivity was 3 by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie. They worked together and showed that radioactivity was an atomic property not a chemical change. The 4 of radioactivity won the Curies and Ekcquerel the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 developed · overlapped · transmitted · unraveled
  • 2 clarified · corrugated · fogged · transparent
  • 3 coined · concocted · estimated · expected
  • 4 discharge · discovery · fabrication · invention
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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.