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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #43556 Short Early Chocolate
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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
The  earlier  chocolate  was  quite  unpalatable.  They  used  to  add  things  to  it  to  make  it  more  palatable,  so  for  the  early  chocolate,  they  didn't  know  how  to  extract  all  the    fat  from  it,  so  it  was,  or  could  be  quite    and  if  you  made  it  as  a  drink  you'd  have  this  sort  of  scum  on  the  top.  So  they  used  to  try  and  add  things  to  it,  like    and  things,  to  make  it  a  more  palatable  product.  So  there  were  a  lot  of    around  the  kind  of  things  they  were  adding  to  chocolate  in  the  nineteenth  century.  So  by  the  sort  of  1870s,  1880s,  there  are  people  like  Cadbury's  saying,  'Our  chocolate  is  absolutely  pure'.  We  have  this  new  process,  the  Van  Houten  process  which  now  extracts  all  this    fat  that  we  can  use  to  make  eating  chocolate.  Now  we  have  a  pure  product.

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Correct answer: cocoa

Explanation: On the recording you hear "extract all the cocoa fat". It comes after "all the", so you need a word for a thing.

Meaning: "cocoa" means the bean or powder used to make chocolate.

Wrong options:

  • coco: It leaves out the "a". Write "cocoa". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
Correct answer: greasy

Explanation: Listen again to "could be quite greasy and". You need a describing word that ends in y.

Meaning: "greasy" means covered in or feeling like fat or oil.

Wrong options:

  • greassy: It adds an extra "s". The right spelling is "greasy". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
Correct answer: starch

Explanation: Here you hear "like starch and things". It comes after "like", so you need a thing, not an action.

Meaning: "starch" means a powder used to thicken foods or change texture.

Correct answer: scandals

Explanation: The speaker says "a lot of scandals around". The sentence needs more than one, so do not forget the s at the end.

Meaning: "scandals" means public stories about bad or dishonest actions.

Wrong options:

  • scandels: It has "e" where the word has "a". Check the letters: "scandals". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • scandal: "scandal" has no "s" at the end. The speaker says "scandals", so write the "s".
Correct answer: horrible

Explanation: You hear "extracts all this horrible fat". You need a describing word that shows it was bad or unpleasant.

Meaning: "horrible" means very bad or unpleasant here.

Wrong options:

  • horrable: It has "a" where the word has "i". The right spelling is "horrible". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • horrid: "horrid" is a close word, but it ends in "d". The speaker says "horrible", which ends in "ble".

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