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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #34506 Medium Clever Monkeys
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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:

Those clever little monkeys are on strike again. And I don't mean the Writers Guild. No, I'm talking about the tufted capuchin monkeys at Yerkes Primate Research Center. Those headstrong primates have put down their feet—all four of them—and refused to work for unfair wages. Their grievances are presented in the current online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To examine capuchins' sense of fairness, Frans de Waal and his colleagues at Emory University designed a bartering task in which monkeys are given tokens they can then exchange for food. Some monkeys get a plain old cucumber slice, others get a coveted grape. What the researchers discovered is that when monkeys who get salad fixins see their friends get fruit, they basically refuse to play anymore. But were the monkeys really reacting to inequity.
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Printed "whooshing", the speaker says "capuchin"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "tufted capuchin". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, and they end differently.

Printed "pennant", the speaker says "presented"

Explanation: Listen again to "grievances are presented". Both words start with the same first letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "purified", the speaker says "designed"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "designed a bartering task". They start with different letters, but both words end with the same two letters.

Printed "trait", the speaker says "exchange"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "then exchange for food". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, and they end differently too.

"tufted" matches the audio

Explanation: "the tufted whooshing monkeys" looks unusual and may catch your eye. The speaker actually says that phrase, so do not click it.

"fixins" matches the audio

Explanation: "salad fixins see" looks informal and might seem wrong on the page. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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