#ListeningPractice
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🔉 Luyện listening xíu nha mọi người. Nghe và điền vào chỗ trống (bài này luyện skill nghe và bắt chữ - kiểu như chép chính tả, có lợi cho IELTS):
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🎧 Listening 1 - ADVANCED (audio: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1704/170426-egg-freezing-l.html) - mọi người có thể chọn tốc độ vừa "medium", hoặc chậm hơn "slower"
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Female workers in the UK are (1) ___________________ unusual perk by their employers. British companies are (2) ___________________ egg freezing as a perk. Tech companies like Apple and Facebook already offer egg freezing (3) ___________________ female employees, and now other companies may follow the tech giants' lead. Many British companies are in talks with IVF clinics about providing (4) ___________________ freezing to women. The UK's largest chain of fertility clinics, CARE Fertility, said it has been in discussion with (5) ___________________ employers. The perk comes at a considerable cost to employers. Apple and Facebook have been offering subsidized egg freezing to female (6) ___________________ up to £16,000 ($20,000) per employee.
Companies will provide the egg-freezing (7) ___________________ women in their 20s or 30s (8) ___________________ careers. The idea is that women could make use of their frozen eggs in their 40s when they meet the right partner (9) ___________________ stable. Rob Smith, clinical director of CARE London, said: "Successful pregnancy at that age is very low indeed so by freezing eggs (10) ___________________ will just have that guarantee at the back of their mind." Mr Smith said the perk was also an option for couples wanting to conceive (11) ___________________. Critics of the idea said it was wrong to prioritise careers over having children. One said: "When [IVF] is done purely to protect their job, I think it's extraordinary that women think (12) ___________________."
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(answer key: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1704/170426-egg-freezing.html)
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🎧 Listening 2 - INTERMEDIATE (audio: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1704/170422-exercise-4l.html)
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A study says social (1) ___________________ 'contagious'. Researchers found that people who put (2) ___________________ exercise on social media motivate other people (3) ___________________. Researchers tracked 1.1 million (4) ___________________ five-year period. They looked at the runners' social (5) ___________________, distance, time, speed and calories burned. They concluded that sharing exercise data on social media inspires others to exercise more, harder and (6) ___________________.
The study has (7) ___________________ reading about a friend's exercise can be inspiring. It (8) ___________________ kilometre run by friends can inspire someone to run three-tenths of a kilometre farther, (9) ___________________ minutes run by friends can inspire someone to run three minutes longer. Social media improved slower, (10) ___________________ runners, and those who were (11) ___________________ overtaking a friend. If you run more, (12) ___________________ you can make friends run more.
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(answer key: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1704/170422-exercise-4.html)
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