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

Star Watching

15 students marked "I sat this"Added 23 Jan 2021Question #120354

Choose the word for each blank.

Break out the binoculars and telescopes on Saturday, May 19th. Because it's the first International Sidewalk Astronomy Night. "Sidewalk Astronomers" was founded in San Francisco in 1968, when a lot of people were seeing stars, and not just at night. The group's goal is to 1 more people to the beauty and wonder of celestial objects with good viewing equipment and to provide 2 about what the eyewitnesses are actually looking at.The most 3 viewed objects are the moon; Jupiter, whose major moons are visible with good binocs; and Saturn. I once trained a cheap telescope on Saturn and some friends were so amazed at the site of the rings they seriously looked at the other end of the scope to see if I had 4 it. Sidewalk Astronomy Night is indeed an international event, with dozens of public viewing sites from Beijing to the corner of 81st Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. For more info and to find a site near you, just go to www.sidewalkastronomynight.com. And if there's no 5 site near you,

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 defer · explain · expose · transfer
  • 2 arbitration · examination · imputation · information
  • 3 agreeably · easily · frequently · randomly
  • 4 doctored · overloaded · sued · upgraded
  • 5 enshrined · organized · ossified · sized
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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.