Short talks on listening skills Listen to the short talk entitled " Represent the ideas clear and clean——outlining ". Some important words are taken away from the written passage. Supply the missing words. Represent the ideas clear and clean ——outlining Outlining is a method of 1_____________________. It is a skill very useful to language learners when they are taking lecture notes, reading or writing a paper. In listening, the skill of outlining reflects, to a certain extent, the listener's 2__________ in understanding how 3________________, or the scattered pieces of information 4_______________________________________. People generally uses a system of 5________ numerals, 6_________ numbers and 7________ to show relationships. There is a kind of 8________________ for using these symbols to show which ideas are most important. The symbols used, in order of 9___________________, are Roman numerals (I. II. III....), 10______________(A. B. C. ...), Arabic numbers (1. 2. 3. ...), 11 ________________ (a. b. c. ...) and numbers in parentheses [(1) (2) (3) ...]. The placement of the topics on paper is also important. The most important items are entered farther 12 _____________, lesser items are entered farther and farther 13 ___________. Headings of 14________ importance are indented 15_______________ from the left margin. The purpose of this indentation is to make each idea 16 ____________, and also to show just how it is related to 17__________________________. 18___________ is needed at the end of an idea unless it's written as a complete sentence. Outlining, as a fairly 19__________ and effective method in language learning, certainly deserves our attention and practice, particularly for 20___________________.