PTE Reading Fill in the Blanks
TEST- 1 (READING FILL IN THE BLANKS)
1 Supported by Sherman tanks of the 751st Tank Battalion, the mountaineers ……….. pushed the Germans out of their bunkers and off the…………. , only to be on the receiving end of tremendous artillery and mortar barrages and numerous ………….. counter attacks that took place for four days. Despite the bitter fighting and the heavy casualties, the hill mass was finally secured by February 24. The 10th had had its long-sought baptism of fire. Most importantly, the mountaineers had …………….. themselves and had accomplished their mission; the German grip on the northern Apennines was finally……… .
Suffering, proven, depths, shattered, heights, gradually, messy, disorganized
2 The men of the 10th celebrated the ……… of the war in the one way that seemed ………….. appropriate for them: They organized a ski race. On the crusty summer snows of Mount Mangart, where the borders of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia come together, the 10th’s best skiers ………… each other. First Sergeant Walter Prager, the Dartmouth ski team coach, won. It ………… a fitting way not only to end a war, but to begin a new world.
Seemed, challenged, end, commonly, confronted, uniquely
3 Major streets were barricaded, houses were ………… with gun loopholes, and artillery platforms were erected. The Gross Garten, or Great Garden, a landscaped park that lay to the southeast, ………… by a wall, guarded Dresden’s approaches in that direction and was considered a………….. .
Napoleon directed that the seven gates to the suburbs be ……….. and the Pirna Gate be strengthened by excavating a ditch in front of it that could be ………… with water. Saint-Cyr was counting primarily on the 13 redoubts that ringed the city like a necklace.
Occupied, obstructed, filled, weakness, fitted, strongpoint, blocked, surrounded
Set 2
1 As bridges ………. the River would be subject to strong defence, and to avoid the likelihood of detection, the site chosen for the …………. was between the bridges. Two strong swimmers from among the New Zealand Troops went back to the River in the evening. They took across the first constructions of ………….. boats – thick canvas pull-up sides with struts to hold in place (like canvas buckets). More troops soon followed pulling themselves across on the boats to …….…… on the north bank. The pontoon boats were ………….. together, with big duckboards on top, to form a floating platform for the crossing and amphibious tanks made their own way.
moored, raft, crossing, junction, terminated, pontoon, watch, over, guard
2 The soldiers studied the rock face for a very long time, speaking ………… as they scanned the shale with ………… and jotting notes onto a map of the area. The map named this series of connected peaks Monte Della Riva. The troops simply called it Riva Ridge. They could see places on the ridge that looked fairly easy to…………. , and other parts of the trail that offered more of a challenge—places where snow and ice ……………… to shadowy crevasses, places where small waterfalls cascaded over rock, places where the shale looked loose and easily broken. What they could not see but knew was there was an alert German battalion on the summit, just waiting for the Allies to make another …………… attempt on the neighboring mountain, Monte Belvedere.
Rash, navigate, foolhardy, noiselessly, binoculars, pilot, clung, quietly
3 Nowhere was the fighting more ………….. than on the far eastern spur of the ridge known as Pizzo di Campiano. Here, Lieutenant James Loose and a dozen of his men from Company A of the 86th became …………… from the rest of their platoon and ………… two enemy companies—a much larger force than intelligence had estimated was there. At 0500 hours, the battle for the ………… began. The Yanks were hit by a flurry of grenades, then attacked several times, each time fighting off the attacks with their ………….. supply of ammunition.
Bourgeoning, separated, dwindling, whole, spur, met, intense, encountered
Set 3
1 As bridges ………. the River would be subject to strong defence, and to avoid the likelihood of detection, the site chosen for the …………. was between the bridges. Two strong swimmers from among the New Zealand Troops went back to the River in the evening. They took across the first constructions of ………….. boats – thick canvas pull-up sides with struts to hold in place (like canvas buckets). More troops soon followed pulling themselves across on the boats to …….…… on the north bank. The pontoon boats were ………….. together, with big duckboards on top, to form a floating platform for the crossing and amphibious tanks made their own way.
moored, raft, crossing, junction, terminated, pontoon, watch, over, guard
2 The soldiers studied the rock face for a very long time, speaking ………… as they scanned the shale with ………… and jotting notes onto a map of the area. The map named this series of connected peaks Monte Della Riva. The troops simply called it Riva Ridge. They could see places on the ridge that looked fairly easy to…………. , and other parts of the trail that offered more of a challenge—places where snow and ice ……………… to shadowy crevasses, places where small waterfalls cascaded over rock, places where the shale looked loose and easily broken. What they could not see but knew was there was an alert German battalion on the summit, just waiting for the Allies to make another …………… attempt on the neighboring mountain, Monte Belvedere.
Rash, navigate, foolhardy, noiselessly, binoculars, pilot, clung, quietly
3 Nowhere was the fighting more ………….. than on the far eastern spur of the ridge known as Pizzo di Campiano. Here, Lieutenant James Loose and a dozen of his men from Company A of the 86th became …………… from the rest of their platoon and ………… two enemy companies—a much larger force than intelligence had estimated was there. At 0500 hours, the battle for the ………… began. The Yanks were hit by a flurry of grenades, then attacked several times, each time fighting off the attacks with their ………….. supply of ammunition.
Bourgeoning, separated, dwindling, whole, spur, met, intense, encountered
Set 4
1 During those first few weeks following the 10th’s entry into the line, there was little heavy fighting, only ……….. and desultory exchanges of artillery. But General Hays had not brought his men all this way just to hold a defensive………… , and soon a new offensive was in the works, one that would pit the 10th Mountain Division in the valley against the Germans holding the high ground.
Hays’ staff officers pointed out that previous attempts to take Monte Belvedere, overlooking Highway 64, had ………………. because German artillery observers on Riva Ridge could spot any ……………….. toward the mountain and bring deadly accurate fire down upon the attackers. The key to taking Belvedere, they argued, was Riva Ridge. The operation, then, was planned for Riva Ridge to be ……………….. and held the night before the main assault climbed Monte Belvedere. But, first, routes to the top of Riva Ridge needed to be found.
Stricken, assaulted, status, sporadic, position, association, regular, failed, movement
2 In 2012 the IPCC concluded that there is limited to medium evidence available to …………. climate-driven observed changes in the magnitude and frequency of floods at a regional scale because the available ……………… records of floods at gauge stations are limited in space and time, and because of confounding effects of changes in land use and engineering. Furthermore, there is low agreement in this evidence, and thus overall low confidence at the global scale regarding even the …………… of these changes. There is low confidence (due to limited evidence) that anthropogenic climate change has ……………… the magnitude or frequency of floods, though it has detectably influenced several components of the hydrological cycle such as precipitation and snowmelt (medium confidence to high confidence), which may ………….. flood trends.
Waves, instrumental, impact, tangential, assess, natural, sign, affected
3 Farthest to the east, Sword Beach boasts the original Pegasus Bridge, preserved at the Pegasus Bridge Museum. The museum ………….. the story of all the British airborne operations in the Battle of Normandy, including the ………… of Horsa gliders just yards from the bridge. Visitors can walk the actual bridge behind the museum to see a ………… dedicated to a British soldier killed during the …………. on Sword Beach, and view WWII-vintage vehicles, a bailey bridge and the remains of a Horsa glider.
Defense, assault, tells, landing, articulates, plaque
Set 5
1. Because instructional methods, expected class participation, and the nature of the courses vary, no fixed number of absences is applicable to all_______. Each_______ is responsible for making clear to the class at the beginning of the _________ his or her policies and procedures in regard to class _______ and the reasons for them.
instructor, attendance, semester, situations
2 Nowhere was the fighting more ………….. than on the far eastern spur of the ridge known as Pizzo di Campiano. Here, Lieutenant James Loose and a dozen of his men from Company A of the 86th became …………… from the rest of their platoon and ………… two enemy companies—a much larger force than intelligence had estimated was there. At 0500 hours, the battle for the ………… began. The Yanks were hit by a flurry of grenades, then attacked several times, each time fighting off the attacks with their ………….. supply of ammunition.
Burgeoning, separated, dwindling, whole, spur, met, intense, encountered
3 Farthest to the east, Sword Beach boasts the original Pegasus Bridge, preserved at the Pegasus Bridge Museum. The museum ………….. the story of all the British airborne operations in the Battle of Normandy, including the ………… of Horsa gliders just yards from the bridge. Visitors can walk the actual bridge behind the museum to see a ………… dedicated to a British soldier killed during the …………. on Sword Beach, and view WWII-vintage vehicles, a bailey bridge and the remains of a Horsa glider.
Defense, assault, tells, landing, articulates, plaque
Answer
Set 1
Ans- gradually, heights, disorganized, proven, shattered
Ans- end, uniquely, challenged, seemed
Ans- fitted, surrounded, strongpoint, blocked, filled
Set 2
Ans- over, crossing, pontoon, guard, moored
Ans- quietly, binoculars, navigate, clung, foolhardy
Ans- intense, separated, encountered, spur, dwindling
Set 3
Ans- over, crossing, pontoon, guard, moored
Ans- quietly, binoculars, navigate, clung, foolhardy
Ans- intense, separated, encountered, spur, dwindling
Set 4
Ans- sporadic, position, failed, movement, assaulted
Ans- assess, instrumental, sign, affected, impact
Ans- tells, landing, plaque, assault
Set 5
intense, separated, encountered, spur, dwindling
situations, instructor, semester, attendance
tells, landing, plaque, assault
Set 6