19th century PTE reading and writing fill blanks 18
Below is a text with blanks. For an each blank, there is a list of choices. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
In real-life …………………….. we are often faced with alternatives that seem so equivalent that choice is …………………… difficult. Under such circumstances our final selection may feel like an …………………………. choice, although in fact there may be implicit influences acting outside conscious control that bias us toward selecting one alternative over another. The observation that people can make correct choices while believing that they are selecting randomly has a……………….. history in experimental psychology. Studies dating from the 19th century have ………………………. found that participants can make ………………….. perceptual discrimination judgments with above chance accuracy despite claims that they are simply guessing.
| A) places
situations conditions states cases |
B) abundantly
thoroughly extremely consistently distinctly |
C) erratic
random distinct haphazard arbitrary |
D) long
extended lasting extensive boring |
e) variously
irregularly orderly consistently harmoniously |
f) rough
subtle narrow elusive rugged |
Answer :-
A) situations
B) extremely
C) arbitrary
D) long
e) consistently
f) subtle
2.) Milwaukee’s founding fathers had a ………………… for the city: they knew it was …………………… situated as a port city, a center for collecting and distributing produce. Many of the new immigrants who were ………………… into the new state of Wisconsin during the middle of the 19th century were wheat farmers. By 1860, Wisconsin was the second ranked wheat growing state in the country and Milwaukee ……………… more wheat than any place in the world. Rail roads were needed to transport all this grain from the wheat fields of Wisconsin to Milwaukee’s harbor. ……………………….. in railways at the time made this possible. Milwaukee did ……………………. its place as the commercial capital of Wisconsin and an important market in the Midwest.
| A) thought
feeling vision sight sense |
B) rightly
perfectly basically excellently flawlessly |
C) getting
pouring diving running drizzling |
D) made
shipped turned imported bought |
E) expanding
readiness improvements boosting correction |
F) improve
distorted thickened fossilized solidify |
Answer :-
A) vision
B) perfectly
C) pouring
D) shipped
E) improvements
F) solidify