PTE Academic / listening / Academic
Cities and housing
10 original practice questions. Open them in any order.
Independent preparation material, not an official test or score prediction.
Audio script (about 30 seconds): local history talk on numbering houses
Synthetic practice recording. This is not official exam audio.
Read listening script
Speaker: For much of history, city homes had no numbers at all. A letter might be addressed to 'the baker's house near the old bridge' or 'the third door past the church'. That worked well enough for a local postman who had walked the same streets for years. But as cities grew quickly and new streets appeared, numbering houses in a fixed order meant that even a postman who was new to the area could [BEEP]
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Select Missing Word
You will hear a recording. At the end of the recording the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Select the correct option to complete the recording.
Which option best completes the talk about house numbers?
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