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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #49094 Medium Dangerous Sex
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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:

Here's one way bats might get their next meal: by eavesdropping on flies having sex. Bats eat a lot of seemingly undetectable flies. To find out how the winged mammals find the insects, researchers set up a video camera inside a cowshed that was home to a bat colony and lots of bugs. The video showed that bats rely on their echolocation skills to detect flies at a specific time: when they're engaged in rather noisy sex. Flies are usually quiet in bat territory and sit on cluttered ceilings in caves where backround noise masks the echoes from their movement. But when flies are feeling frisky, males can't help but flutter their wings, emitting a burst of click sounds that the bats pick up on. During more than one thousand sexual encounters caught in the act on video, five percent of the insects were caught in the act by bats. The research is published in the journal Current Biology. The study shows that ignorance can be safer than carnal knowledge when predators are on the prowl.
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Printed "vibratory", the speaker says "territory"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "in bat territory and". They start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "muscled", the speaker says "cluttered"

Explanation: Listen again to "sit on cluttered ceilings". First letters differ, so hear the whole word.

Printed "compound", the speaker says "backround"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "backround noise masks". Both words start with different letters, so focus on the start.

Printed "multiplexing", the speaker says "emitting"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "emitting a burst of". The spoken word is shorter, so follow the sound not the page.

Printed "slouchers", the speaker says "encounters"

Explanation: The speaker says "sexual encounters caught in" not "slouchers". The first letters differ, so listen to the beginning.

Printed "clap", the speaker says "research"

Explanation: Listen for "The research is published". Start of the words is different, so hear the whole word.

"eavesdropping" matches the audio

Explanation: "by eavesdropping on flies" looks long and odd on the page. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"cowshed" matches the audio

Explanation: "inside a cowshed that was home" has a rare word that may seem wrong. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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