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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In)
ID: #47886
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Reptilian Fossil
Instructions
You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.
* Fill in the missing words into the blank fields
Some interesting facts about the great reptilian fossils recently discovered in Wyoming and Colorado have come to light. The bones represent reptiles of many sizes, from that of a cat up to one sixty feet high. The latter, found at Como, Wyoming, belonged to the crocodile order; but the remains give that the animal stood up on its hind legs, like a kangaroo. Another found in Colorado is estimated to have been 100 feet long. A great many remains of the same general class, but belonging to different species, have been collected and sent East. Among them from three to four hundred specimens of the dinosaur, and about a thousand pterodactyls, have been shipped from Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas. The wings of one of the latter were from thirty to feet from tip to tip. Seventeen different species of these flying dragons have been found in the chalk of western Kansas.
Result:
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Correct answer: found
Explanation: You hear "The bones found represent". It comes after "bones", so you need an action word showing discovery.
Meaning: "found" means discovered or located.
Wrong options:
- foudn: Two letters are in the wrong order. Write "found". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
- find: This already happened, so the word ends in d.
Correct answer: evidence
Explanation: Listen for "give evidence that". The sentence needs a word for a thing that shows proof.
Meaning: "evidence" means proof or something that shows the truth.
Wrong options:
- evidance: It has "a" where the word has "e". Write "evidence". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
- evident: "evident" is a close word, but it ends in "t". The speaker says "evidence", which ends in "ce".
Correct answer: forty
Explanation: On the recording you hear "from thirty to forty feet". The sentence needs the exact number word forty.
Meaning: "forty" means the number 40.
Wrong options:
- fourty: It adds an extra "u". Write "forty". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
- forties: "forties" is a close word, but it ends in "ies". The speaker says "forty", which ends in "y".
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