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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word ID: #4185 Medium Jungle
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You will hear a recording. At the end of the recording the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Select the correct option to complete the recording.
In the jungle, home is anywhere you can raise your babies - while trying not to get gobbled up by somebody else. Take a tiny creature from Brazil whose name is longer than it is: the Bahia's broad-snout casque-headed tree frog. It likes to hang out in the little ponds that form in cavities within bromeliad plants. These tiny pools are technically known as "phytotelmata," from the Greek words for plant and pond. A male finds a bromeliad and attracts a female, who lays her eggs directly into the water. The male stays behind to guard the eggs and the tadpoles - spending the rest of his life within that one plant. But not just any bromeliad pool will do. “It's so crazy that there are some really nice, big bromeliads and I never found our frog there. If I would be a frog, I would like that bromeliad.” Herpetologist Mirco Solé, from Brazil's State University of Santa Cruz, quoting his graduate student, Amanda Lanter-Silva. "But then we made the research, and we saw - that there were tradeoffs.
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Option 2: "that there were tradeoffs"

Explanation: This option is correct as it directly reflects the conclusion drawn from the research mentioned in the text. The phrase 'there were tradeoffs' is explicitly stated at the end of the passage, indicating that the choice of bromeliad pools involves certain compromises, which aligns with the overall theme of the text.

Option 1: "that the males did not wanted to be guards"

Explanation: This option is incorrect because it contains a grammatical error; 'did not wanted' should be 'did not want.' Additionally, the text does not suggest that males do not want to guard the eggs. Instead, it emphasizes the male's role in guarding the eggs and tadpoles.

Option 3: "attractive female frogs"

Explanation: This option is incorrect because it introduces a concept not present in the text. While the text discusses the attraction of a female frog to a male, it does not mention 'attractive female frogs' as a missing element. This option lacks relevance to the main idea of the text.

Option 4: "that the plant was wrong"

Explanation: This option is incorrect as it misrepresents the content of the text. The text does not imply that any plant is 'wrong.' Instead, it discusses the specific bromeliad pools that are suitable for the frogs, and the idea of a plant being wrong does not align with the context provided.

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