PTE Academic Reading Test 1 (Multiple Choice Choose Single Answer) Practice Sample
Multiple-choice Choose Single Answer – Read the passage and choose a single answer from the multiple choices. This type of questions assesses reading skills and requires test takers to read, analyse, understand and assess a short text for whole passage. Choose single option out of given responses.
PTE Academic Reading Test 1 (Multiple Choice Choose Single Answer) Practice Sample
PTE PRACTICE TEST- MULTIPLE CHOICE-SINGLE ANSWER
1. Read the passage and answer the following question.
Mars may be appeared red when viewed from the Earth, but NASA’s Curiosity rover Space Station has captured some unbelievable pictures of the Red Planet. Purple rocks were seen in the area of mountains. The picture was taken by the spacecraft’s master camera (MastCom) clearly shows the purple rocks near Mount Sharpe. They are also seen in the middle distance where the mission is to reach in the future. This clearly indicates the diversity of the structure of Mount Sharpe, said by NASA. On one side the color of the front mountains was found to be purple, at the same time the chemical and mineralogical devices of Curiosity have detected Hematite.
Ques. The passage is mainly concerned about
[A]. Variation in the color of rocks hints its change in size.[B]. Picture detected a type of iron-oxide mineral results to change in color.
[C]. Season tend to keep rocks relatively free of dust, which otherwise can cloak rocks’ color.
[D]. Mars Curiosity space station captures purple-colored rocks on the surface of the red planet. For Answers Click Here
D
2. Read the passage and answer the following question.
Women’s hairstyle changed with the change in time, especially in Rome. “‘It is impossible to enumerate all the different styles: each day adds more adornments” commented by the Augustan poet. New ideas were invented during the Roman Empire. The report shows many women’s could have their portraits sculpted with separately carved wigs and changes the wings in order to change the hairstyle or to keep themselves with the latest hairstyle. Ancient idealized the beauty of human body and were extremely conscious of how they looked in public. There were several hairstyles that were limited to certain people in ancient society. Simple hairstyles for married women changed during the reign of Emperor Augustus when a variety of different and elaborate hairstyles came into fashion. Scholars are trying to create a chronology depending on these different hairstyles from various Roman portraiture. After putting them in a serial order, one can able to date pictures of the empresses on coins.
Ques. The passage is mainly concerned about
[B]. History and research on Roman hairstyles.
[C]. Traditional hairstyles of Romans.
[D]. The difference between ancient and modern Roman hairstyles. For Answers Click Here
B