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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #48656 Long Salty Food
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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:

Mmmm, chips. One of the most sublime of salty snacks. But have you ever wondered how they get that perfectly salty sheen on the outside? "Salt is sprayed on the surface." Youngsoo Lee is a food engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. And he says not all salty foods are created equal. There's spray-on surface salt. There's salty liquids, like canned soup. And then there are salty solids, where the sodium is dissolved in a matrixlike structure. Think: salamis and cheeses. But when we eat those salty solids, only a fraction of the salt gets released before we swallow. Meaning a lot of that salt has no effect on taste—but a big effect on our daily salt intake. Lee's investigating that salty-solid conundrum for a company that wants to make cold cuts that taste the same but contain less salt.
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Printed "mansard", the speaker says "wondered"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "have you ever wondered". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "sleep", the speaker says "released"

Explanation: The speaker says "salt gets released before", not "sleep". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, and the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "mitigating", the speaker says "investigating"

Explanation: Listen for "Lee's investigating that". Both words end with the same two letters, so focus on the start of the word.

"sublime" matches the audio

Explanation: "One of the most sublime" looks odd on the page. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"surface" matches the audio

Explanation: "Salt is sprayed on the surface." looks like a trick. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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