PTE Academic · Select Missing Word

PTE Academic Select Missing Word practice: Ideas and Inventions

2 original Select Missing Word questions. Listen for the beep, select the missing ending and check your answers, explanations and transcripts. Free, no login needed.
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  • Free, with answers
  • PTE Academic
  • Updated 19 October 2026
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Listen to the recording and choose the word or group of words that completes the ending replaced by a beep. Select one option.

1

Quiet Intervals

Speaker: Australian English

Plays once, as in the test: no pausing or replay

0:00 / 0:51

Listen once. A beep replaces the final word or group of words. Select the one option that best completes the recording’s meaning. This practice has no separate answer timer.

You will hear a recording with its final word or phrase replaced by a beep. Select the option that best completes the recording.
2

Payments and Trust

Speaker: American English

Plays once, as in the test: no pausing or replay

0:00 / 0:42

Listen once. A beep replaces the final word or group of words. Select the one option that best completes the recording’s meaning. This practice has no separate answer timer.

You will hear a recording with its final word or phrase replaced by a beep. Select the option that best completes the recording.

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This Academic practice uses adapted BandLadder-original recordings with the ending replaced by a beep. In the exam, hear 20–70 seconds once and choose one of three to five options. Select Missing Word assesses Listening only. The result here is a correct-answer total, not a predicted PTE score. Pearson’s Academic Select Missing Word guidance.

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