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

Futurologist

1 student marked "I sat this"Added 29 Oct 2024Question #120482

Choose the word for each blank.

According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium (a period of 1,000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life. Pearson has 1 together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a 2 millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key 3 and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an 4 life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs 5 into use between now and 2040.

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 been gathering · gathered · pieced · scattered
  • 2 affordable · Generic · superior · unique
  • 3 breakthroughs · detections · Impediments · inventions
  • 4 expected · extended · Extending · prospective
  • 5 come · Coming · has come · will be coming
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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.