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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #904 Short Tropical Climates
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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
Now,  the  emergence  of    medicine  marked  a  transition,  a  transformation,  from  something  that  had  preceded  it,  and  that  I  hope  won't  be  .  But  from  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century,  more  or  less,  until  the  closing  decade  of  the  nineteenth  century,  there  had  been  an  older  tradition  that  can  be    under  the  label  of  "diseases  of  the  tropics."  And  there  were  a  couple  of  classic  statements  of  this  older  tradition.  One  was  a  work,  an  important  work,  by  James  Lind,  an  eighteenth  century  ,  who  wrote  "An  Essay  on  Diseases  Incidental  to  Europeans  in  Hot  Climates,"  and  this  was  built  on  the  experience  of  Europeans  in  the  West  Indies.

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Correct answer: tropical

Explanation: Here you hear "of tropical medicine". The word describes hot regions, it ends in al.

Meaning: "tropical" means connected with hot regions near the equator.

Wrong options:

  • tropacal: It has "a" where the word has "i". Check the letters: "tropical". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • tropics: "tropics" is a close word, but it ends in "s". The speaker says "tropical", which ends in "al".
Correct answer: confusing

Explanation: The speaker says "won't be confusing". You need a describing word that ends in ing.

Meaning: "confusing" means not clear or hard to understand.

Wrong options:

  • confussing: It adds an extra "s". The right spelling is "confusing". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • confused: "confused" is a close word, but it ends in "ed". The speaker says "confusing", which ends in "ing".
Correct answer: summarized / summarised

Explanation: You hear "be summarized under". This already happened, so the word ends in ed. You can write "summarized" or "summarised". Both get the mark.

Meaning: "summarized" means made short or given the main points.

Wrong options:

  • sumarized: It leaves out the "m". Check the letters: "summarized". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • summarize: "summarize" is missing the ending. The speaker says "summarized", with "d" at the end.
Correct answer: physician

Explanation: Listen for "eighteenth century physician". It comes after that phrase, so you need a word for a person or job.

Meaning: "physician" means a doctor who treats people.

Wrong options:

  • physican: It leaves out the "i". Check the letters: "physician". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • physicist: "physicist" is a close word, but it ends in "st". The speaker says "physician", which ends in "an".

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