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

Drugs

12 students marked "I sat this"Added 9 Jan 2021Question #120309

Choose the word for each blank.

When that happens, staff will help the person- 1 out and now a little stressed - fish their drugs out of the rubbish. On their way out, they might have a blood test, their first 2 check-up in years, or just a hot cup of Milo. 'We enable people to inject in the centre because that' s what they do,' the medical director, Nico Clark, tells Guardian Australia during a recent visit to the North Richmond Community Health Centre. 'The majority are dependent on their 3 . The purpose is not to be a place that 4 injection per se, the 5 is to keep people alive.'

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 strong · strung · stung · stunned
  • 2 academic · dental · indirect · relative
  • 3 concerns · incomes · minds · substances
  • 4 disallows · facilitates · funds · patronizes
  • 5 effect · purpose · reciprocity · risk
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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.