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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #47142 Short China Sea
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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
There    is    to    a    large    extent    wrong,    or    at    least    being    deliberately    naive    for    rhetorical    purposes.    The    seed    doesn't    settle    back    into    an    state    once    the    ship    has    disappeared    from    view,    and    that    word    trace    is    worth    mulling    over    because    to    read    it    today    is    to    feel    a    kind    of    irony.    For    all    that's    now    known    about    the    extent    and    intensity    of    human.    Impacts    on    the    ocean,    those    continue    too    often    to    go    undetected,    and    unusually    disastrous    example    and    potent    of    this    has    been    happening    since    January    of    this    year,    when    a    tanker    called    Sanchi    with    a    cargo    ship    in    the    East    China    Sea.

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Correct answer: unspoiled

Explanation: You hear "settle back into an unspoiled state". It comes before "state", so you need a word meaning not damaged.

Meaning: "unspoiled" means not damaged or changed.

Wrong options:

  • unspoild: It leaves out the "e". Check the letters: "unspoiled". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
Correct answer: frustrating

Explanation: Listen for "feel a frustrating kind of irony". It comes after "feel a", so you need a describing word ending in ing.

Meaning: "frustrating" means causing annoyance or disappointment.

Wrong options:

  • frustating: It leaves out the "r". Write "frustrating". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • frustrated: "frustrated" is a close word, but it ends in "ed". The speaker says "frustrating", which ends in "ing".
Correct answer: impacts

Explanation: On the recording you hear "those impacts continue too often". It follows "those", so you need more than one, do not forget s.

Meaning: "impacts" means harms or effects on the ocean.

Wrong options:

  • imapcts: Two letters are in the wrong order. Write "impacts". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • impact: "impact" has no "s" at the end. The speaker says "impacts", so write the "s".
Correct answer: emblem

Explanation: Listen again to "potent emblem of this has been". It comes after "potent", so you need a word for a symbol.

Meaning: "emblem" means a sign or symbol that stands for something.

Wrong options:

  • emlem: It leaves out the "b". Write "emblem". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
Correct answer: collided

Explanation: Here you hear "Sanchi collided with a cargo ship". This already happened, so the word ends in ed.

Meaning: "collided" means crashed into another ship.

Wrong options:

  • colided: It leaves out the "l". The right spelling is "collided". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • collide: "collide" is missing the ending. The speaker says "collided", with "d" at the end.

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