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PTE Academic Reading Practice Test 1

This document provides answers to reading comprehension questions from PTE Academic Practice Test 1. For multiple choice questions, it lists the option numbers that are the correct answers. For re-order paragraph questions, it lists the paragraphs in the correct order. For fill in the blank questions, it provides the words that fill in the blanks. The document contains answers to 25 total questions across multiple question types in the Reading section of the practice test.

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PTE Academic Reading Practice Test 1

This document provides answers to reading comprehension questions from PTE Academic Practice Test 1. For multiple choice questions, it lists the option numbers that are the correct answers. For re-order paragraph questions, it lists the paragraphs in the correct order. For fill in the blank questions, it provides the words that fill in the blanks. The document contains answers to 25 total questions across multiple question types in the Reading section of the practice test.

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  • Cover Page: Acts as the title page for the PTE Academic Practice Test 1 answers, specifically for the Reading section.
  • Multiple Choice, Choose Multiple Answers: Lists items for multiple choice questions needing multiple answers, with answers given for Items 1 to 3.
  • Re-order Paragraphs: Describes the exercise of re-ordering paragraphs logically, with answers for Items 1 to 3.
  • Multiple Choice, Choose Single Answer: Lists items for multiple choice questions, requiring the selection of a single answer, with answers provided for Items 1 to 3.
  • Reading Fill in the Blanks: Contains answers for Reading Fill in the Blanks items, displaying correct options for Items 1 to 3.
  • Reading & Writing Fill in the Blanks: Provides answers for both reading and writing fill in the blanks for several items.

PTE Academic

Practice Test 1
Answers

Part 2: Reading
Multiple choice, choose single answer – Item 1
Option 2

Multiple choice, choose single answer – Item 2


Option 2

Multiple choice, choose single answer – Item 3


Option 3

Multiple choice, choose multiple answers – Item 1


Option 3, 5, 6

Multiple choice, choose multiple answers – Item 2


Option 1, 4, 7

Multiple choice, choose multiple answers – Item 3


Option 2, 4, 5

Re-order paragraphs – Item 1


One day, Jonathan is met by two gulls who take him to a "higher plane of existence" in
which there is no heaven but a better world found through perfection of knowledge.

In this new place, Jonathan befriends the wisest gull, Chiang, who takes him beyond his
previous learning, teaching him how to move instantaneously to anywhere else in the
Universe.

The secret, Chiang says, is to "begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

Not satisfied with his new life, Jonathan returns to Earth to find others like him, to bring
them his learning and to spread his love for flight.

Ultimately, the very first of his students, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, becomes a teacher in his
own right, and Jonathan leaves to teach other flocks.

Re-order paragraphs – Item 2


Some psychologists advocate a positive psychology, and explicitly embrace an empirical self-
help philosophy.

According to them, the role of positive psychology is to become a bridge between the ivory
tower and the main street—between the rigor of academe and the fun of the self-help
movement."

They aim to refine the self-improvement field by way of an intentional increase in


scientifically sound research and well-engineered models.

The division of focus and methodologies has produced several subfields, in particular:
general positive psychology; and personal effectiveness.
This includes the intentional training of new patterns of thought and feeling.

Re-order paragraphs – Item 3


The film “The Red Balloon”, tells of Pascal, who, on his way to school one morning, discovers
a large red balloon.

As Pascal plays with his new-found toy, he realizes it has a mind of its own. It begins to
follow him wherever he goes.

The balloon follows Pascal through the streets of Paris, and they draw inquisitive looks from
adults and the envy of other children as they wander the streets.

At one point it enters his classroom, causing an uproar from his classmates which alerts the
principal, who becomes angry with him and locks him up in his office until school is over.

At another, he and the balloon encounter a little girl with a blue one that also seems to have
a mind of its own too.

Reading Fill in the blanks – Item 1


aspect, sustained, standard, consistently, undergoing

Reading Fill in the blanks – Item 2


purposes, heighten, discern, direction

Reading Fill in the blanks – Item 3


limitation, frequency, intentionally, downward

Reading Fill in the blanks – Item 4


eventually, skilled, specialised, eradicated, traditional

Reading & writing Fill in the blanks – Item 1


administered, developed, proficiency, consequences, constrained

Reading & writing Fill in the blanks – Item 2


combination, creates, prevalent, anticipatory, comprehending

Reading & writing Fill in the blanks – Item 3


consensus, enterprise, objectives, impressed, supporters

Reading & writing Fill in the blanks – Item 4


creative, collectively, access, convey, questionable

Reading & writing Fill in the blanks – Item 5


predictable, structure, acquisition, contractual, transitions

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