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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #4000 Short Sales
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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
If  you  go  by  ticket  sales,  the  most  popular  film  of  all  time  is  Gone  With  the  Wind.  "Frankly  my  dear,  I  don't  give  a  damn."  That  is  adjusting  for  ,  by  the  way.  But  a  movie's  take  at  the  box  office  is  influenced  by  ad  budgets,  distribution,  reviews  -  so  box  office  may  not  be  the  best    of  a  movie's  cultural  influence.  To  address  that  question,  researchers  gave  movies  the  big  data  treatment  -  by  analyzing  the  complex  network  of    among  47,000  movies  on  the  Internet  Movie  Database,  IMDb.  The  popular  movie  site  tracks  every  time  a  film  has  been    or  spoofed,  featured  or  remade:  all  factors  that  indicate  a  movie's  influence  on  subsequent  films.  And  by  analyzing  those  connections  with  a    of  algorithms  -  including  Google's  PageRank  algorithm  -  the  data  scientists  came  up  with  a  new  number  one:  it's  another  1939  flick  by  the  same  directors  as  Gone  With  the  Wind,  which  has  been    more  than  300  times,  and  referenced  by  nearly  3,000  movies.

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Correct answer: inflation

Explanation: Here you hear "That is adjusting for inflation, by". You need a word for money changes over time.

Meaning: "inflation" means general rise in prices over time.

Wrong options:

  • inflattion: It adds an extra "t". Write "inflation". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • deflation: This says prices fall, but the sentence talks about rising prices.
Correct answer: measure

Explanation: The speaker says "may not be the best measure of". The sentence needs a single word for a way to judge.

Meaning: "measure" means a way to judge or compare something.

Wrong options:

  • measur: It leaves out the "e". Check the letters: "measure". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
Correct answer: connections

Explanation: You hear "network of connections among 47,000 movies". You need a word for links between things.

Meaning: "connections" means links or relationships between movies.

Wrong options:

  • connetions: It leaves out the "c". Check the letters: "connections". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • relations: This is a different word. The recording uses a more common word for links.
Correct answer: referenced

Explanation: Listen for "every time a film has been referenced or spoofed". This already happened, so the word ends in ed.

Meaning: "referenced" means mentioned or pointed to by later films.

Wrong options:

  • refered: It leaves out the "nce". The right spelling is "referenced". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
Correct answer: handful

Explanation: On the recording you hear "a handful of algorithms". You need a small number word, not many.

Meaning: "handful" means a small number of things.

Correct answer: spoofed

Explanation: Listen again to "which has been spoofed more than 300 times". This already happened, so the word ends in ed.

Meaning: "spoofed" means made fun of in other films, often by imitation.

Wrong options:

  • spoffed: It has "f" where the word has "o". Check the letters: "spoofed". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • spoof: "spoof" is missing the ending. The speaker says "spoofed", with "ed" at the end.

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