Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) · Part 2: Reading

A superintelligence is any intellect that vastly outperforms the best…

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A superintelligence is any intellect that vastly outperforms the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. This definition leaves open how the superintelligence 1: it could be in a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue, or something else. On this definition, Deep Blue is not a superintelligence, since it is only smart within one narrow domain (chess), and even there it is not vastly superior 2 the best humans. Entities such as corporations or the scientific community are not superintelligences either. Although they can perform a number of intellectual feats of which no individual human is capable, they are not 3 integrated to count as intellects, and there are many fields in which they perform much worse than single humans. For example, you cannot have a real-time conversation with the scientific community.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 be implemented · has implemented · implemented · is implemented
  • 2 for · of · to · with
  • 3 barely · regularly · sparsely · sufficiently

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Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) format (Pearson)

Formerly called Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks.

PromptText up to 200 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading

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.