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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #34264 Short New Treatment
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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
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Correct Transcript:

Open a newspaper any day of the week and you're likely to read about a "promising new treatment" for one disease or another. But according to a study published in the September 5th issue of Science, it can take decades for those cures to make it to the clinic, Researchers from the U.S. and Greece combed through the scientific literature to see how long it actually takes for compounds that look good in the laboratory to get through clinical trials and get used on patients. The scientists focused their attention on a handful of interventions that were widely hailed as being clinically effective. And they found that, for the average drug, the time that elapsed between its initial discovery and the first paper to show its clinical effectiveness was about 24 years. Some drugs moved much faster. One of the protease inhibitors used to treat HIV made it from patenting through clinical trials in only four years.
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Printed "newsletter", the speaker says "newspaper"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "Open a newspaper any". Both words start with the same letter n, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "grievances", the speaker says "Researchers"

Explanation: The speaker says "Researchers from the U.S". The printed word makes no sense here. They start with different letters, so listen to the first sound.

Printed "spiritualistic", the speaker says "scientific"

Explanation: Listen for "the scientific literature". Both words start with s, and the printed word is much longer.

Printed "motherly", the speaker says "discovery"

Explanation: You will hear "initial discovery and". The printed word makes no sense in the sentence. They start with different letters, so listen to the first sound.

"promising" matches the audio

Explanation: "promising new treatment" may look like a trick because it is common. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"patenting" matches the audio

Explanation: "from patenting through clinical" looks odd but fits the sentence. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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