PTE Listening: Fill in the Blanks Predictions – 6–12 July 2026 Weekly Study File

So between 4,000 and 3,000 BC the Mesopotamian Samarian cultures do not [practice] any kind of burial. And then, about 3,000, in the early Dynastic Period, these burials start to reappear, and they reappear with a certain amount of [conspicuous] consumption, and this is the context for the royal burials at Ur. OK, so, the royal cemetery consists of quite a number of pits, so these are the [excavation] workers who are coming down into the pits. So you get some sense of how really deep and how really dizcult it was to construct these [chambers] .

Belief is the human capacity to imagine, to be creative, to hope and dream, to infuse the world with meanings, and to cast our aspirations far and wide. Limited neither by personal experience nor [material] reality. Believing is a [commitment] , an investment, a devotion to possibilities. Beliefs [permeate] [neurobiologies, bodies and] ecologies acting as dynamic agents in evolutionary processes. The human capacity for belief, the [specifics] [of] belief, and I, and our diverse belief systems shape, structure and alter our daily lives, our societies, and the world around us.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to find specific journal articles using the library catalog. The university [subscribes] to over 18,000 journals across a variety of subjects, most of which are available [electronically] to find a specific journal article using a library catalog. We need to [search] by the journal name as individual article titles are not [listed] in the catalog.

The thing that makes it dizcult is because even if life had evolved on Mars, the chances of being preserved are very small. If we use Earth as a [reference] and our planet is teeming with life, yet it rarely preserves evidence of life of the fossil record. And the focus now is on exploring for [habitable] environments. If you're looking for water, a [source] of energy, either solar energy or thermal energy or chemical energy, and then [organic] carbon, assuming life as we know it on Earth based on carbon. So those are sort of the three things that we're looking for in the course of our mission.

Green chemistry is a concept designed to develop [technologies] that allow chemistry to be practiced with minimal environmental damage or in an environmentally [compatible] way. It's meant to cover both chemical [processes and chemical] [products] . The center, if you would, was set up about seven or eight years ago, and the idea was to provide a hub of activities that covered [fundamental] research work, industrial collaboration, and educational developments. We work with schools, on public projects, and [networking] . We network out to well over 1000 people around the globe.

For a long time now, it's been a widely accepted and [rarely] questioned belief that a strong corporate culture goes hand in hand with success. However, a recent study has [cast] some doubt on this principle. After all, the [authors] of the report argue for culture. A company's build-up may be strong, but wrong. There is little point in [every] [employee] marching to the same tune if they are all marching in the wrong direction.

Also, malaria is something that is a very complex disease with this complex life cycle. That means that if you're going to [eliminate] it, you have to be able to target cute parasites and humans. You have to be able to target parasites in the mosquitoes, that mosquito [population] . And so that requires a lot of resources. It requires really good planning and a health system across all these different [levels] . And so I think the political capital that you need for that, the educational [infrastructure] you need for that, the economic resources you need for that are quite a [challenge] .

Now that story's been scorched, as only part of [contingency] planning. But it was a symptom of the dramatic turn of events in South Australia, and it flushed out other remarks from water [academics] and people like Tim Flannery, indicating that things were really much worse than had been [foreshadowed] , even earlier this year. So is Adelaide, let alone some whole regions of South Australia, in serious bother' Considering that the vast amount of its drinking water comes from the [beleaguered] Murray, something many of us outside the State may not have quite realized. Is their [predicament] something we have to face up to as a nation'

There are some 250 million cars in America, 250 million cars in the country with just over 300 million people. And most of those vehicles, of course, are gas-powered. This poses a huge [challenge] given the limited supplies of oil and the growing urgency of the global warming crisis. But there is good news, according to our guests today. And that is we have the know-how and the [technology] to build sleek, fast [automobiles] that don't use gasoline. These vehicles of tomorrow are powered by hydrogen, electricity, bio-fuels, and digital technology. And they already exist. So [what's] [stopping] us from putting them on the roads' Our guests today will help answer that.

These two paintings, both called "Sunflowers," are generally accepted as the finest of several [depictions] [of the] thick-stemmed, nodding blooms that Van Gogh made in 1888 and 1889 during his time in Arles. The first is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, and the second is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Van Gogh referred to this work as a [repetition] of the London painting. But art historians and curators have long been [curious] to know how different this "repetition" is from the first. Should it be considered a copy, an independent artwork, or something in between' An [extensive] research project conducted over the past three years by conservation experts at both the National Gallery and the Van Gogh Museum has concluded that the second painting was "not intended as an exact copy of the [original] example," said Ella Hendriks, a professor of conservation and restoration at the University of Amsterdam, who was the lead researcher on the project.

To begin with, you should be standing on the main [floor] of the British Library. British Library is situated in the Euston road next to some pipe crustacean press, in the foyer to the left of the [information] desk. It was a large white staircase. Follow this up towards the gallery at the top of the [stairs] pause and look to your left for attention. This is Robert Cotton, born in 1570, and died in 1631. Cotton was a member of parliament but he's mainly known as a great antiquarian [collector] of manuscripts. It is the covenant we have a great depth and the survival of many English manuscripts.

Rebuilding carbon-rich agricultural soils is the only real productive, [permanent] solution to taking excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. She's [frustrated] that scientists and politicians don't see the same opportunities she sees. This year, Australia will [emit] just over 600 million tonnes of carbon. We can sequester 685 million tonnes of carbon by [increasing] soil carbon by half a percent on only 2% of the farms. If we increased it on all of the farms, we could sequester the [whole] world's emissions of carbon.

Bruch and her colleague Mark Newman studied 'Who swapped messages with whom', on a [popular online dating] platform in the month of January 2014. They categorized users by [desirability] using PageRank, one of the algorithms behind search technology. [Essentially] , if you receive a dozen messages from desirable users, you must be more desirable than someone who receives the same number of [messages] from average users. Then they asked: How far 'out of their league' do online daters tend to go when pursuing a partner' 'I think people are optimistic realists". In other words, they found that both men and women tended to pursue mates just 25 percent more desirable than themselves. 'So, they're being optimistic, but they're not..they're..they're also umm..taking into account their own relative position within this overall desirability hierarchy.' And the study did have a few [more] [lessons] for people on the market: 'I think one of the take-home messages from this study is women could probably afford to be more aspirational in their [mate] pursuit.'

Financial markets swung wildly yesterday in frenzied trading market by further selling of [equities] [and] [fears] about an unraveling of the global carry trade. At the same time trading in the European credit markets in London was [exceptionally] heavy as traders frantically reassessed their appetite for risk-prompting wild [swings] [in the] prices of the key derivatives. It was the third day of frenetic activity in the European credit markets, suggesting that equity market swings were prompting a wider repositioning of [investors] in a host of asset classes.

For many years, the favorite horror story about [abrupt] climate change was that a shift in ocean currents could [radically] cool Europe's climate. These currents, called the overturning [circulation] , bring warm water and warm temperatures north from the equator to Europe. Susan Lozier, an [oceanographer] at Duke University, says scientists have long worried that this ocean circulation could be disrupted.

For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a [mysterious] figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and [church] documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many [gaps] in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.

Laurence Stephen Lowry RBS RA was an English artist. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pend Lebury, Lancashire, where he lived and [worked] for more than 40 years, and also Salford and its surrounding areas. Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the [industrial] districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He [developed a] [distinctive] style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as [matchstick] man. He painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding [portraits] and the unpublished 'marionette' works, which were only found after his death.

In animals, a movement is coordinated by a cluster of neurons in the spinal cord called the Central Patterns Generator (CPG). This produces signals that drive muscles to [contract] rhythmically in a way that produces running or walking, depending on the pattern of pulses. A simple signal from the brain instructs the CPG to switch [between different] [modes] , such as going from a [standstill] to walking.

A majority of U.S. high school students say they get [bored] in class every day, and more than one out of [five] has considered dropping out, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The survey of 81,000 students in twenty-six states found two-thirds of high school students complain of [boredom] , usually because the [subject matter was] [irrelevant] or their teachers didn't seem to care about them.

Well in 2004 we integrated ticketing in South East Queensland, so we have [introduced] a paper ticket that allowed you to travel across all the three [modes] in South East Queensland, so bus, train and [ferry] [and] the second stage of integrated ticketing is the introduction of a Smart Card, and the Smart Card will enable people to [store] a value so to put a value on the card, and then to use the card for traveling around the system.

Those of you who've never heard the term neo-Latin may be forgiven for thinking it's a new South American dance [craze. If you're] [puzzled] when I tell you it has something to do with the language of Romans, take heart, over the years many classes who have [confessed] they are not really sure what it is either. Some have [assumed] that they are so-called 'Late-Latin', written at the end of the Roman Empire. Others have supposed it must have something to do with the middle ages. Or perhaps it's that pseudo-Latin which my five and seven-year-old boys seem [to have] [gleaned] from the Harry Potter books, useful for spells and curses that they zip one another with makeshift paper ash ones. No, in fact, neo-Latin is more or less the same as the Latin that was written in the [ancient] world, classical Latin. So, what's so new about it'

For the first time, Japanese researchers have conducted a real-life experiment that shows how some trazc jams appear for no apparent reason. They placed the 22 vehicles on a [single track] and asked the drivers to cruise [around at a] [constant] speed of 30 kilometers an hour. At first, trazc moves smoothly, but soon, the distance between cars started to [vary and vehicles] clumped together at one point on the track, but the jams [spread] backward around the track, like a shockwave at a rate of about 20 kilometers an hour. Real-life jams move backward at about the same speed.

The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and [enlarge] the public views, bypassing them [through the] [medium] of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom [may] best discern the true interest of their country, and whose [patriotism] and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or [partial] considerations.

The ocean has been getting [bluer] , according to a study published in the journal Nature. But that's not really good news for the [planet] It means that the plants that give the ocean its [green] tint aren't doing well. Scientists say that's because the ocean has been getting [warmer] .

Along the way, we have built [unashamedly] beautiful buildings, two of which have won and been runner-up in the prestigious United Nations World [Habitat] Award: the first time an Australian building has received that international honor. We rely on older [concepts] of Australian architecture that are heavily influenced by the bush. All residents have private verandas which allows them to socialize [outdoors] and also creates some 'defensible space' between their bedrooms and public areas. We use a lot of [natural] or soft materials and build beautifully landscaped gardens.

What is nanotechnology' Well, a report that was put together by a [combination] of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering that came out last summer, [identified] two topics. Nano-science is the study of [the] [phenomenon] and the manipulation of materials at atomic, molecular, and [macromolecular] scales, where properties differ significantly from those on a larger scale. Nanotechnologies are the design characterization, production, and application of [structures] , devices, and systems by controlling shape and size at the nanometer scale. I'll talk a little bit more in a moment about what a nanometer is, but [loosely] [speaking people] think of nanotechnologies as being sort of a hundred nanometers or less.

Dogs are not just man's best friend. Previous studies have shown that kids with dogs are less likely to develop asthma. Now a new study may show how if results from mice apply to us. The work was presented at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. The study tests what's called the [hygiene] hypothesis. The idea is that extreme cleanliness may actually promote disease later on. Researchers collected dust from homes that had a dog. They fed that house dust to mice. They then infected the mice with a common [childhood] [infection called respiratory] syncytial virus or RSV . Mice who ate the dog dust were protected against RSV infection symptoms, like inflamed, mucus [coated airways, suggesting] [exposure] helped them stave off the virus. Those mice also had more diverse communities of gut bacteria than control mice did. The researchers say our pet's microbes may [colonize] [our] gut too, and help the immune system learn to [respond] to infections. That's important because when kids develop severe RSV their risk of asthma goes up. So next time buster sheds all over the couch, think of it as a [bonus] dose of probiotics.