#30Listening: Fill in the BlanksAcademic,CoreMedium
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Language often seems so [blank] drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything other than the perfected handiwork of a [blank] . How else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? In themselves, these [blank] - p, f, b, v, t, d, k, g, s, h, a, e and so on - amount to nothing more than a few haphazard spits and splutters, random noises with no [blank] , no ability to express, no power to.
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Language often seems so skillfully drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything other than the perfected handiwork of a master craftsman . How else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? In themselves, these configurations of mouth - p, f, b, v, t, d, k, g, s, h, a, e and so on - amount to nothing more than a few haphazard spits and splutters, random noises with no meaning , no ability to express, no power to.
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