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Section B Compound Dictation
注意: 听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在卷二上。现在请取出试卷二。
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage tree times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered S8 to S10 you are required to fill in missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
President Clinton later today joins (S1) ________ presidents Ford, Carter and Bush at “the president’s summit for America’s future” (S2) ________ at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (S3) ________ dollars to fund a five-year program called “America Reads”.
The program would fund the (S4) ________ efforts of 20 thousand reading (S5) ________ and it would also give (S6) ________ to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. During his Saturday radio (S7) ________, the president explained why the program is important. “We need ‘America Reads’ and we need it now. Studies show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well, (S8) ________. But, 40 percent of them still can’t read at a basic level.”
Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding, are being used in literacy and tutoring programs. (S9) ________.
The president says many of the Philadelphia summit’s corporate sponsors will recruit tutors. (S10) ________.
