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

smart automation

16 students marked "I sat this"Added 27 Oct 2022Question #120423

Choose the word for each blank.

As digitalisation and smart automation progress, many will see their jobs altered. Advances in automation technologies will mean that people will 1 work side by side with robots, smart automation and artificial intelligence. Businesses will look for employees who are good at the tasks that smart automation 2 to do and that add value to the use of smart automation. In the past, technological progress has had a positive impact on our society, increasing labour productivity, wages and prosperity. Right now, a new technological wave of digitalisation and smart automation – 3 of artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies - is fundamentally transforming the way we work, at an unprecedented pace. 4, data analytics, the Internet of Things and drones are already used in many industries to make production processes better, faster, and cheaper. We already see shifts in the structure of employment: in industries, tasks, educational levels and skills.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 increase · increased · increasing · incresingly
  • 2 struggled · struggles · struggling · used to struggle
  • 3 combinations · combine · combining
  • 4 for example · instead · no wonder · of course
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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.