PTE Core
PTE Core Reading Multiple Choice Single Answer Practice
Practice PTE Core Reading Multiple Choice Single Answer with exam-style passages, clear evidence checks, and single-answer scoring to improve accuracy.
Score weightOverall: <1%Reading: 1%
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Money
Read the passage and choose the one best answer.
In the earliest stages of man's development, he had no need of money. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, making his own rough tools and weapons and he could provide food and clothing for himself and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and more lasting clothing than those that could be provided by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things, he had to turn to the skilled people such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters. It was then that the question of payment arose.
What can we infer from this passage?
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How It Works
Reading Multiple Choice Single Answer asks you to read one short passage and choose the option most directly supported by the text. The best answer is the one that matches the author's meaning, not the option that only repeats familiar words.
There is no negative marking, so the goal is to narrow the choices with evidence, remove half-true distractors, and commit to the strongest answer instead of leaving the question blank.
Scoring Factors
- Correct answer: 1 point.
- No negative marking: wrong answers score 0, so an evidence-based guess is better than no answer.
- Strategy: read the question first, locate the supporting sentence, then compare every option against the exact meaning of the passage.
What the best answer looks like
- Question focus: choose the option the author most clearly supports.
- Trap option: repeats a keyword from the passage but changes the meaning.
- Trap option: is partly true, but does not answer the actual question focus.
- Best answer: matches both the evidence and the author's intended meaning.
- Trap option: sounds reasonable from general knowledge, but is not stated in the text.
- Why the best answer wins: the correct option is the one fully supported by the passage after you check qualifiers such as however, only, mainly, and rather than.
Single-answer checklist
- Read the question first: decide whether you are looking for a cause, opinion, comparison, or supporting detail.
- Use sentence-level evidence: point to the line that supports your answer before you click.
- Reject half-true options: if an answer ignores a contrast word or overstates the passage, it is not the best choice.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Picking the option that shares keywords with the passage without checking whether the meaning matches.
- Ignoring contrast or limitation words such as however, only, mainly, or instead.
- Choosing an option that is generally reasonable but not directly supported by the passage.
Practice Method
Read the question first, mark the sentence that supports the answer, then eliminate choices that are too broad, partly true, or contradicted by the text. After submitting, explain in one sentence why the correct answer is stronger than the distractors.