Part A Spot 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 word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.
However mean your life is, (1) ; do not shun it and (2) . It is not so bad as you are. It (3) when you are richest. The fault-finder will (4)
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some (5) hours, even in a poor-house. The (6) is reflected from the windows of the alms-house (7) from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door (8)
I do not see but (9) may live as contentedly there, and have (10) , as in a palace. The town’s poor seem to me often to live the (11) of any. May be they are (12) to receive (13) .
Most think that they are above (14) by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by (15) Which should be more disreputable
(16) like a garden herb, like a sage. Do not (17) to get new things, whether clothes or friends, (18) , return to them. Things do not change; (19) Sell your clothes and (20)