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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #36771 Short Photography
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You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.
* Fill in the missing words into the blank fields
Photography  was  invented  by  nineteenth  century  artists  as  an  art  form  for  their  own  purposes.  These  men  were  seeking  a  lasting,    record  of  their  visual  surroundings  and  they  found  it.  The  new  combination  of  illumination,  lens,  shutter,  and  flat  surface  coated  with  chemicals  sensitive  to  light  produced  images  more  ,  more  convincing  in  their  reality,  and  more  richly  detailed  than  painters  could  produce  manually  in  weeks  and  months  of  effort.  This  alone  was  enough  to  throw  consternation  into  the  ranks  of    artists;  and,  after  their  first  reaction  of  pleasure  in  a  new  kind  of  image,  art  critics  rallied  with  the  haughty  charge  that  photography  was  not,  and  could  not  be,  an  art.  The  actual  world  in  which  we  live  had  too  strong  a    on  photography,  they  said,  and  pictures  so  dependent  upon  mechanical  means  could  not  be  called  acts  of  man'  s  creative  imagination.  Despite  the  critics,  photographers  knew  that  they  had  found  a  new  art  form,  a  new  mode  of  .

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Correct answer: literal

Explanation: Listen again to "lasting, literal record". The sentence needs a describing word that says exact.

Meaning: "literal" means exact or true.

Wrong options:

  • litteral: It adds an extra "t". The right spelling is "literal". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • literally: "literally" has an extra "ly" at the end. The speaker says "literal".
Correct answer: lasting

Explanation: Here you hear "produced images more lasting". You need a word that ends in ing.

Meaning: "lasting" means continuing for a long time.

Wrong options:

  • last: "last" is missing the ending. The speaker says "lasting", with "ing" at the end.
Correct answer: fellow

Explanation: The speaker says "ranks of fellow artists". After 'of' you need a word for people like them.

Meaning: "fellow" means other people who do the same thing.

Wrong options:

  • follows: Follows is a different word and makes no sense here.
Correct answer: grip

Explanation: You hear "too strong a grip on photography". The sentence needs a word for control or hold.

Meaning: "grip" means a strong hold or control.

Wrong options:

  • grib: It has "b" where the word has "p". Write "grip". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • grasp: Grasp is a different word. The speaker said a different word.
Correct answer: expression

Explanation: Listen for "mode of expression". After 'of' the sentence needs a word for showing thought or feeling.

Meaning: "expression" means a way to show ideas or feelings.

Wrong options:

  • expressing: "expressing" is a close word, but it ends in "ng". The speaker says "expression", which ends in "on".

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