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PTE Academic listening practice set 6
Seventeen PTE Academic listening questions on the history of the bicycle, sea otters, open-plan offices, endangered languages, bread, natural ventilation, the number zero, mental maps of cities, the first dogs, virtual water, chocolate and solar panels, plus three dictation sentences. The set covers Multiple Choice (single and multiple answers), Fill in the Blanks, Highlight Correct Summary, Select Missing Word, Highlight Incorrect Words and Write from Dictation. It is untimed and in practice mode you can replay each recording; in the real test each recording plays once, and the Listening part is timed and scored from 10 to 90. Here Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers and Highlight Incorrect Words take off a point for each wrong choice, as on the real test, but a dictation sentence scores only when the whole sentence is right, whereas the real test gives a point for each correct word.
Exam mode: timed, answers at the end, like the real test. Practice mode: untimed, the answer and explanation after each question.
What is in this test
Covers: listening fill in blanks (3) · listening mcq single answer (3) · write from dictation (3) · listening mcq multiple answers (2) · highlight correct summary (2) · select missing word (2) · highlight incorrect words (2)
A sample question
Listen to the recording and answer the question. According to the speaker, what was new about the way mathematicians in India used zero?
- They were the first to use a symbol for an empty place in a number.
- They treated zero as a number that could be used in calculations.
- They used it to replace Roman numerals in India.
- They learned it from scholars in the Islamic world.
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.