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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #32820 Short Pharmaceutical companies

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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.

* Click on the words that are different from what you hear

Result:

Correct Transcript:

Pharmaceutical companies sometimes have to pull new drugs off the market because they harm our livers. The drugs may have been tested on liver cells from rats, or on human cells that are nearly dead. But these kinds of tests do a poor job of mimicking real livers. Now researchers at MIT have developed a better method. They've created a colony of human liver cells that act like the real thing. The research was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. The cell colonies are only 500 millionths of a meter in diameter. Researchers arrange the cells on a plate in much the same way as copper wires are placed on computer chips. These micro livers mimic the actions of real livers- including producing enzymes necessary to break down drugs and other toxins. The tiny organs last for six weeks. So they can evaluate the effects of drugs over a longer time period than current tests. A start-up company has licensed the technology and is preparing it for market.

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Printed "segmenting", the speaker says "mimicking"

Explanation: Listen again to "job of mimicking real". They start with different letters, but both end with the same two letters.

Printed "bestirred", the speaker says "research"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "The research was published". The printed word looks very different and the first letters are not the same.

Printed "Cleavages", the speaker says "Researchers"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "Researchers arrange the cells". The two words begin with different letters, so listen for the whole word.

Printed "spooning", the speaker says "producing"

Explanation: The speaker says "including producing enzymes necessary". They end the same way, but start with different letters.

Printed "congregate", the speaker says "evaluate"

Explanation: Listen for "So they can evaluate the". The first letters differ, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "fishing", the speaker says "preparing"

Explanation: You will hear "is preparing it for market". They share the same ending letters, yet begin differently.

"Nature" matches the audio

Explanation: "the journal Nature Biotechnology" may look like a tricky name. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"MIT" matches the audio

Explanation: This phrase "researchers at MIT have developed" contains a familiar name. The speaker says MIT exactly as shown, so do not click it.

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