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

Heart Functions

8 students marked "I sat this"Added 25 Aug 2022Question #120417

Choose the word for each blank.

The heart functions as a pump at the centre of the circulatory system. In humans it is located in the chest cavity, between the lungs, 1 to the left. The heart consists of four chambers surrounded by a very strong muscular wall, the myocardium. The upper chambers, the right and left atria, 2 blood entering the heart, and the lower chambers, the right and left ventricles pump the blood out of the heart, via the pulmonary and the systemic circulatory systems. The two systems work as follows . Blood from the body enters the right atrium, 3 passed into the right ventricle and from there is propelled through the pulmonary artery to the lungs. In the lungs the blood releases carbon dioxide and absorbs oxygen and is then 4 back to the heart into the left atrium. From here it passes into the left ventricle, which pumps the oxygenated blood around the body.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 a bit · compared · less than · rather than
  • 2 lower · receive · repel · transfer
  • 3 are · is · was · were
  • 4 is transported · transported · transporting · was transported
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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.