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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #35443 Medium Death of Bee

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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:

You've probably heard that the world's honeybees have suffered stinging losses lately. That's a big story for us, too—up to $12 billion in crops rely on the fuzzy flyers for pollination. Of the 2.4 million honeybee colonies in the US, about one million died off this past winter. Big declines have also been seen in Europe and Asia. The die-off has been dubbed colony collapse disorder and the vanishing bee syndrome. A couple of species of mites that attack bees were responsible for similar die offs in the winters of '95-'96 and 2000-2001. And the mites may be partly to blame for the most recent honeybee loss. But a quarter of the current carnage seems unrelated to mites or any other pests.

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Printed "comfort", the speaker says "suffered"

Explanation: You will hear "have suffered stinging". Words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "bibliographies", the speaker says "colonies"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "honeybee colonies in". Both words end with the same two letters, so listen to the full word.

Printed "transpolar", the speaker says "disorder"

Explanation: Listen again to "colony collapse disorder". The printed word does not fit the sentence, so trust what you hear.

Printed "practical", the speaker says "responsible"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "were responsible for". The spoken word is longer and starts with a different letter, so hear the whole word.

"honeybees" matches the audio

Explanation: "the world's honeybees have" has a common word near the change. It may look odd, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"fuzzy" matches the audio

Explanation: "the fuzzy flyers for" places a simple describing word next to the error. It can seem wrong, but the speaker says it, so do not click it.

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