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

Canada

8 students marked "I sat this"Added 22 Nov 2021Question #120396

Choose the word for each blank.

Canada is a country of the enormous natural resources. It is the world's largest exporter of fore products and a 1 exporter of fish, furs, and wheat. Minerals 2 a key role in Canada's transformation into an urban-industrial economy. Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan are the principal mining regions. Ontario and the Northwest (NWT) and Yukon Territories are also 3 producer of uranium and potash, the third-largest of asbestos, gypsum, and nickel, and the fourth-largest of zinc. Oil and gas are exploited in Alberta, off the Atlantic coast, and in the northwest -- huge additional reserves are thought to exist in the high Arctic; oil price 4 extraction profitable at a growing number of the country's deposit. Canada is also one of the world's top hydroelectricity producers.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 fin · high · maximum · top
  • 2 had played · have played · playing · were playing
  • 3 numerous · other · significant · similar
  • 4 are made · had made · is making · making
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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.