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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50973 Medium Mobile Phone
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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:

This year, the number of mobile phones on cell networks is expected to surpass the Earth's population. "More people now own cell phones than actually have access to working toilets." James Meadow, a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon. Hidden in the data is the reality that some people work on their phones...on toilets. If that grosses you out, consider this: "So it turns out we're just really leaky animals. We just, we leave our bacteria everywhere we go." Including, of course, our phones. Meadow and his colleagues took a census of the bacteria on thumbs and index fingers of 17 volunteers and on their smartphone touch screens. Overall, they Id’ed more than 7,000 types. Looking at just the most common bacteria, those that appear more than 0.1 percent of the time, they found an 82 percent similarity between the microbiomes of fingers and phones.
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Printed "remembered", the speaker says "expected"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "is expected to surpass". They start with different letters, but both end with "ed", so listen to the whole word.

Printed "linear", the speaker says "bacteria"

Explanation: The speaker says "we leave our bacteria everywhere", not "linear". The words start with different letters, and "linear" makes no sense here, so click the printed word.

Printed "overtones", the speaker says "microbiomes"

Explanation: Listen for "the microbiomes of fingers". The first letters differ, and both words end the same, so wait for the full word.

"toilets" matches the audio

Explanation: "have access to working toilets." looks odd next to the phone story. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"phones" matches the audio

Explanation: "own cell phones than actually" sits near a changed word and may catch your eye. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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