Listening Fill In The Blanks Exercise 3

Exercise 3

Listen the following audio and type missing words in each blank

1)

Menopause is characterized by greatly diminished levels of a group of ________ reproductive hormones called estrogens. Estrogens travel through the bloodstream and exert widespread ___________ effects on organ growth and development. Approximately 25 percent of postmenopausal women take supplemental estrogens to ___________ unpleasant symptoms of menopause, a practice called hormone replacement therapy. For example, HRT decreases the risk of ___________ disease and osteoporosis but may increase the risk of cancer.

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2)

The World Health Organization has been working with ministries of health and other stakeholders of Pacific island countries to build climate ___________ health systems. Although a disease-specific approach is useful initially, in the long run a comprehensive ___________ programme is required. As recommended by WHO, this programme should address (i) health governance and policies ___________ climate risks; (ii) health information, integrated surveillance and climate early warning systems; and (iii) preventive and ___________ services.

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3)

Radon is a naturally occurring, colorless, odorless, and tasteless ___________ gas derived from the decay of thorium and uranium, which are common elements found in rock and soil. Radon gas becomes ___________ in houses and other buildings by seeping into cracks in foundations or basements or by entering through ___________ pumps or other drainage systems. Though most people have heard of radon, very few test their homes for the radioactive gas. One study reported that 82% of ___________ had heard of radon but only 15% had tested for radon.

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4)

The Czech Republic currently is undergoing transformation from the centralized _____________ of a communist dictatorship towards a modern democratic state. Fanta et al. recognizes three main events in the last half century that had _____________ consequences for the country and its land use. First, the communist coup d’etat and the following collectivization of land in the 1950s that introduced large-scale collective farming. Second, the abolition of the totalitarian political system in 1989, which was followed by the _____________ of private land ownership in the 1990.

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5)

Although Oikawa is much too young to have been directly affected by the “_____________ ” of the Japanese Canadians from the Pacific Coast, her anger at the treatment they _____________ during and immediately after the Second World War is apparent in the very use of the word “Violence” in the title. Calling them “euphemisms,” she rejects such terms as “interior housing centres,” and “sugar beet projects.”

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6)

The editors hold that if identity politics has no _____________ political effects, then to a significant degree, “the risks and dilemmas of identity politics signal not a failure of identity politics per se but a failure of states to ____________their political processes”. They find this to be especially true of liberal democracies, where open political space for an engaged _____________ requires public institutions that possess the capacity/determination “to develop procedures and guidelines for addressing claims in ways that are _____________ with the rule of law, constitutional principles, and public reason”.

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