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

Food Minding

0 students marked "I sat this"Added 21 Oct 2024Question #120477

Choose the word for each blank.

At supper Johnson talked of good eating with uncommon 1."Some people," said he, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very 2, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else," He was, for the moment, not only serious but 3. " Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against 4. His practice, indeed, I must acknowledge, may be considered as casting the balance of his different opinions upon this subject; for I never knew any man who 5 good eating more than he did.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 anger · dissatisfaction · emotion · satisfaction
  • 2 carefully · Carelessly · studiously · thoughtfully
  • 3 mild · mildly · Vehement · vehemently
  • 4 dieting · eating · Good eating · gulosity
  • 5 despised · hated · Liked · relished
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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.