Compound dictations

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Unit I

Compound dictation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the words you have heard on the tape. Write your answers in the corresponding space below. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.

In 1979, China adopted (1) ___ of limiting families to one child each, especially (2) ___. The authorities are intensely serious about this aim, since China’s (3) ___ has had severe effects: not enough places in classrooms for all its children, especially (4) ___, where Project Hope was launched later, not enough job opportunities for adults (redundancy proves to be (5) ___ nowadays), not even enough food for everyone ((6) ___ is still reminiscent in people’s mind). To (7) ___, family-planning workers oversee factory workshops and agricultural brigades, and special birth control departments (8) ___ in every inhabited area. Furthermore, the policy goes beyond using (9) ___, such as housing, money, childcare, (10) ___, to induce voluntary compliance. People who have children without permission (11) ___ job promotions and bonuses, although recent reports indicate some (12) ___.

As a result, the nursery schools, kindergartens, early elementary grades of China are already filled with children who have (13) ___. This situation marks a great change in Chinese society, in which (14) ___ were traditionally congratulated with the wish, “May you have a hundred sons and a thousand grandsons.” No culture in human history has ever been (15) ___ only children. And now that the Chinese are seeing the possibility of achieving their population goal, some critics are asking whether they are (16) ___ of their own destruction.

Compared with all children who have siblings, only children are (17) ___, character, and quality of relationships with parents, and they are sociable and well adjusted. They are more intelligent and achieve (18) ___ in medium-sized families. They (19) ___ character than people from medium-sized and (20) ___, and have better relationships with their parents than children in large families do.

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Unit 2

Compound dictation

Chocolate is one of the most popular (1) ___ in the United States. The average American eats about (2) ___, but it is even more popular in Europe, where people in some countries eat about (3) ___.

A new exhibit in Chicago (4) ___ of chocolate and its role in (5) ___. Chicago considers itself the (6) ___ the United States because of (7) ___ manufacturers located there.

Now, those who want to learn more about where many people’s favorite candy – chocolate – comes from, need (8) ___ the new chocolate exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Chicago. Chocolate is (9) ___ for an exhibition. It is something we eat all of the time, it is something we love, we crave and yet (10) ___ that we don’t know where it comes from.

Chocolate began to spread (11) ___ in the 1600’s. In 1657, the first chocolate house opened in London. It is (12) ___ today’s café. By 1700, there were (13) ___ 2,000 chocolate houses in the city. Chocolate became the (14) ___ in Italy. Some historians think the poison that killed the Pope in 1774 was (15) ___. Chocolate appeared in its familiar candy form in England and Switzerland (16) ___.

Consumption of chocolate is not very high in parts of the world (17) ___. In part, it brings in much-needed income, but it is also (18) ___. The interesting fact behind that is that many of the people who manufacture chocolate, grow chocolate and produce chocolate, are ones who (19) ___. It still is a very expensive product (20) ___ producing it for us today.

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Unit 3

Compound dictation

A personal computer, or PC, is (1) ___ computer used by one person at a time. Portable PCs (2) ___ to fit on a person’s lap (3) ___ laptops or notebooks. Special software called the operating systems (4) ___ operate the computer system’s physical parts, or hardware. The (5) ___ operating systems used on PCs are Microsoft Windows, the Macintosh and Linux.

The heart of a PC is its microprocessor, or (6) ___ (CPU in short), contained on a chip of silicon. The microprocessor carries out (7) ___ operations specified by computer programs. PCs have several places where (8) ___ are kept.

The Internet is (9) ___ of computer networks. In 1994, (10) ___ people worldwide made use of it. As of early 2002, according to Nielsen, 166 million Americans (11) ___ the Internet from their homes, the largest number of any country in the world. China, with more than 56 million, was in the 2nd place. (12) ___ with Internet access, Canada, at more than 60%, was number 1. According to estimates by Global Reach in early 2002, English was the (13) ___ of the roughly 560 million people online: the 2nd-most-common language was Chinese, with nearly 10%.

According to the Nielsen data, (14) ___, the US and Canada were the only Internet markets where females online (15) ___, although in New Zealand the split between the sexes was almost 50-50. A Digital Marketing Services survey found that American mothers averaged (16) ___ online per week than American teenagers.

As of June 2002, the (17) ___ FAST claimed that its ALLTHEWEB.com engine had indexed the most Web pages – 2.1 billion, (18) ___ Google. The total size of the Web, according to search engine developer BrightPlanet, lies in (19) ___ pages.

By December 1996, about 627,000 Internet (20) ___ had been registered. By mid-2002, more than 30 million had been registered.

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Unit 4

Compound dictation

The modern Olympic Games, (1) ___, in 1896, resulted from the efforts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, (2) ___, to promote interest in education and culture and (3) ___ through love of athletics. His source of inspiration was the ancient Greek Olympic Games, (4) ___ of the 4 Panhellenic celebrations. The games were combined patriotic, religious, and athletic festivals (5) ___. The first such recorded festival was held in 776 BC, the date from which the Greeks (6) ___ the calendar by “Olympiads”, or 4-year spans (7) ___.

Baron de Coubertin (8) ___ to send athletes to the first modern Olympics in 1896; now athletes from nearly (9) ___ in the world compete in the summer Olympics. The winter Olympics started (10) ___.

The first Olympic Games (11) ___ were held in Rome after the 1960 summer Olympics, use of the name “paralympic” began with the 1964 Games in Tokyo. The Paralympics are held by the Olympic host country in the same year and (12) ___. A goal of the Paralympics is to provide the elite competition to athletes with functional disabilities that (13) ___ the Olympic Games.

On the Olympic flag there are 5 rings, linked together to represent the sporting friendship of all peoples. They also symbolize (14) ___ – Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and America. Each ring has a different color – (15) ___. The creed of Olympics is that the most important thing in the Olympic Games is (16) ___, just as the most important thing in life is (17) ___. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. The motto is “(18) ___.” The modern version of the flame was adopted in 1936. The torch (19) ___ is first lit by the sun’s rays at Mt. Olympia, Greece, and carried (20) ___ by relays of runners. Ships and planes are used when necessary.

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Unit 5

Compound dictation

Sigmund Freud saw the human personality as (1) ___ three elements: the id, the ego, and the superego. Freud’s life spanned the second half of the 19th century, and most of the first half of the 20th. (2) ___, Freud was in many ways a product of his upbringing and of the times (3) ___. As the eldest of 8 children and his mother’s favorite, he (4) ___ at an early age. He (5) ___ the medical school of the University of Vienna, planning to (6) ___. However, as a Jew, he had (7) ___, as a husband and father, he had (8) ___. Therefore, he went into the private practice of medicine, (9) ___ treating nervous disorders, at that time a new branch of medicine.

Freud tried to help his patient – (10) ___, upper-middle-class Viennese women – through hypnosis. When this proved ineffective, he applied the “(11) ___” technique into what we now know as psychoanalysis. As Freud listened to his patients talk about (12) ___, he began to realize some common threads: (13) ___ of experiences in early childhood, the existence and importance of infantile sexuality, (14) ___, the way much of our lives is ruled by (15) ___ of which we are not consciously aware, (16) ___ these and other observations, he formulated his theories, sometimes illustration his points by writing up (17) ___.

Freud’s notions shocked Victorian society – (18) ___ that infants were sexual beings and that their powerful sexual urges establish lifelong personality patterns. However, (19) ___, the force of his personality, and the persuasiveness of his writing won him many followers ((20) ___ whom eventually left him to develop their own psychoanalytic theories) and a secure place in history.

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