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Unit 6
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.
Alzheimer’s disease, (1) ___ of dementia, is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain in which nerve cells (2) ___ for unknown reasons. Its first symptoms usually involve (3) ___ about recent event. As the disease advances, it results in great impairment of memory, (4) ___.
The rate of progression of Alzheimer’s varies, (5) ___; the average length of time from onset of symptoms until death is 8 years. Eventually, affected individuals (6) ___ care for themselves and become (7) ___ for the lungs, urinary tract, or other organs as they grow (8) ___.
Alzheimer’s disease affects (9) ___ Americans, striking men and women of (10) ___. Although most people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are older than 60, some cases occur in people (11) ___. By age 65, an estimated 10 percent of the population has affected by Alzheimer’s, and the disease affects (12) ___ over 85. In the United States, annual costs of diagnosis, treatment, and (13) ___are estimated at $100 billion.
Diagnosis involves (14) ___ that may include a complete health history, a physical examination, neurological and (15) ___, and other testing as needed. Skilled (16) ___ can generally diagnose Alzheimer’s with about 90 percent accuracy.
Treatments for (17) ___ symptoms are available, but no intervention has yet been developed that prevents Alzheimer’s or (18) ___. Providing care for people with Alzheimer’s is (19) ___ demanding. Nearly 70 percent of affected individuals live at home, where (20) ___ care for them. In advanced stages of the disease, many individuals require care in a nursing home.
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Unit 7
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 Australia, there are 40 universities, ((1) ___ and 3 private universities.) All universities (2) ___ the Australian authorities, which ensure that all universities (3) ___ of quality insurance and the degrees which are awarded from Australian universities (4) ___ the Australian qualification framework. So all the degrees (5) ___ in Australia are nationally and internationally recognized. In fact, during the Chinese president Hu Jintao’s (6) ___, the two countries had the signing of an arrangement of higher education (7) ___. That’s the further strengthening of (8) ___ Chinese students to go to Australia to (9) ___ and to be confident about the recognition of higher education qualification.
Any student who has the chance of (10) ___ should make the best of that opportunity. So don’t just (11) ___ the academic life of being a student but take the opportunity to (12) ___ or part-time job. The Australian government allows international students to (13) ___ per week. Many students take the part-time job because it gives them (14) ___ different environment and different part of life they might not otherwise experience. Many students like the (15) ___ because it offers them some exposure to real Australian family life. As you know, universities and other places these days provide (16) ___ support services and advice on finding a dorm, or banking. So (17) ___ these services, and if the students have (18) ___ their studies or their assignment, maybe they are lonely, they should (19) ___ people about it because these services (20) ___ and they shouldn’t think they are on their own.
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Unit 8
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.
The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time (1) ___ have been about 5 million. Today it is estimated that some (2) ___ speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, the Great Britain, (3) ___ and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are (4) ___ varieties of the language, as well as (5) ___ that are employed both in (6) ___ forms.
It is (7) ___ to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English (8) ___ their own languages. The purposes for which English is learned and the situation in which such learning takes place are (9) ___ it is difficult to define and still (10) ___ what constitutes an adequate working knowledge for each situation.
The main reason for (11) ___ for English is its present-day importance (12) ___. Besides serving the infinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which (13) ___ in science, technology and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is (14) ___ such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, (15) ___, and the dissemination of information over the radio and television networks of (16) ____. It is a language of wider communication for (17) ___, especially former British colonies. Many of these countries have (18) ___ and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce industry, (19) ___ as well as international communication and (20) ___ development in the west.
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Unit 9
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.
Venice (1) ___ its many bridges, but one in particular attracts tourists, as once it (2) ___ the hearts of criminals.
The Bridge of Signs connected the courtrooms in the Doges’ Palace to the (3) ___ – completed at the beginning of the 17th century – (4) ___.
It had already been ordered (5) ___ when the infamous prisons of the palace were judged to be (6) ___.
Ponte and then Contin built the bridge, (7) ___ the Bridge of Sighs. It is built of Istrian stone with (8) ___ lengthwise divided by a wall. The condemned (9) ___ the bridge.
The fearful prisons of the Doges’ Palace were (10) ___: both the 18 dungeons of the wells (11) ___, and the lead cells (12) ___.
The latter (13) ___ the fact that the ceiling was plated in lead. In both of these prisons, damp, extremely narrow and unhealthy, the prisoners (14) ___ on earth.
Usually they were brought here after (15) ___ in the “Room of Torments”, as we learn from (16)___ of Casanova, libertine and traveler, condemned for licentious conduct and (17) ___.
Casanova (18) ___ in 1756. Even today, amidst all the splendors of the palace we can still see the lions’ mouths in which were slipped the odious (19) ___ of informers. On the prison walls, you can still read the prisoners’ (20) ___.
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Unit 10
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.
There are (1) ___ juvenile delinquents. One is the status offender. This is a young person who (2) ___, has run away from home, has not (3) ___ parents’ rules, or has done (4) ___ that is ordinarily not considered criminal – except when done by a minor. If Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn were (5) ___ today, he would fit into this category perfectly.
The second kind of juvenile delinquent is one who has done something that is considered a crime no matter who commits it – like (6) ___. If the young person is under the age of 16 or 18, (7) ___ the different states, he or she is usually (8) ___an adult criminal. The court proceedings will probably not be public, the offender (9) ___ tried and sentenced by (10) ___, and the sentence is usually (11) ___. However, for some particularly violent crimes, minors (12) ___.
In recent years, arrests of people (13) ___. People in this age group (14) ___ a disproportionately high share of certain kinds of crimes. Boys are much more likely than girls to (15) ___ with the law: for years, 4 or 5 boys were arrested for every girl. More recently (16) ___ to 3.5 to 1; but crime rates among girls (17) ___ rates among boys only for such status offenses as running away from home, incorrigibility, and engaging in sexual intercourse. Boys commit more of virtually all other offenses, (18) ___, and account for (19) ___ of juveniles in correctional institutions. The increase among girls of (20) ___ and running away from home apparently leads to the kinds of activities that support them, like shoplifting, robbery, larceny and prostitution.
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