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difficult, complicated and (S7) __________ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has (S8) ____________ of language. He has discovered it — babies don’t even know that language exists — and he has found out how it works and learns to use it properly. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by (S9) _________________ and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the (S10) ______________ that schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
Compound Dictation 8 (2010年12月)
Writing keeps us in touch with other people. We write to communicate with relatives and friends. We write to (S1) __________ our family histories so our children and grandchildren can learn and (S2) __________ their heritage (传统). With computers and Internet connections in so many (S3) __________, colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time — or talking to them in writing
in (S4) _____________ rooms. It is cheaper than calling long distance,
听Compound Dictation 8 and a lot more (S5) __________ than waiting until Sunday for (S6) ____________ to drop. Students are e-mailing their professors to (S7)
__________ and discuss their classroom assignments and to (S8) __________ them. They are e-mailing classmates to discuss and collaborate (合作) on homework. They are also sharing information about concerts and sports events, as well as jokes and their (S9) ________________.
Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter. (S10) _______________ to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts. No matter what the content of the message, its real point is, “I want you to know that I care about you.” This writing practice brings rewards that can’t be seen in bank accounts, but only in the success of human relationships.
Compound Dictation 9 (2011年6月)
Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move. It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may (S1) __________ so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the (S2) __________
future. If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand
听Compound Dictation 9 still. If you could move faster than light, your time would (S3) ______________.
Although no form of matter yet (S4) __________ moves as fast as or faster than light, (S5) __________ experiments have already confirmed that accelerated (S6) __________ causes a traveler’s time to be stretched. Albert Einstein (S7) __________ this in 1905, when he (S8) _______________ of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity. A search is now under
