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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #34822
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Bookworm
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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What does a bookworm have in common with a black-tufted marmoset? They both like a little quiet Or so say scientist in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. As urban areas continue to expand, their human inhabitants spread all sorts of pollution: air pollution, light pollution, even noise pollution. Each of these environmental encroachments affects the survival and behavior of local wildlife. And monkeys are no exception, scientist in Brazil were studying how marmosets in a city park cope with ambient noise. And they found that the monkeys tend to settle down in whatever part of the park is most quiet. On weekdays, the marmosets steered clear of the roar of traffic, and on Sundays they shunned the clamor of visiting crowds.
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