复合式听写专项练习

Compound Dictation

Exercise 1

As a result of rising university costs, many students are finding it necessary to take on part-time jobs. To make finding those jobs (36)________, the placement services put together a listing of what is (37) __________ locally. For some students these part-time jobs could lead to full-time work after graduation as they many offer (38) ___________ in their own fields, such as finance, marketing, or even (39) _____.

For example, National Savings Bank offers work on a half time (40) _________: that’s 20 hours a week. Retail stores and (41) ___________ have positions requiring fewer hours. Even less time is expected of those (42) __________ childcare. We have a number of families (43) __________ with us who were looking for babysitters for as few as four hours a week. (44) ____________________________________________

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These often require the most time and are the least flexible in terms of scheduling.

(45)_________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________, stop by our office. Oh, and be sure to bring a resume with you. (46) ______________

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In addition, our counselors will give you hints about successful interviewing.

Scientists have discovered a good reason to sleep a little longer in the morning. The scientists found that a little (36) ________ sleep helps people learn better. They (37) _________ that people who learn a new skill, and then sleep well, are better at performing the skill the next day.

The team studied the (38) ________ of sleep on the ability to learn simple skills. They tested 62 people who were trained to push a series of numbers on a computer (39) __________ as quickly as possible. They used the hand they do not (40) _______

use for such activities.

The people were trained in the morning, and then tested 12 hours later. The scientists found that their speed and performance did not (41) _________ greatly. Yet the results were (42) _________ when the people were trained at night and tested the next day. After a good night’s sleep, their performance got better by about twenty percent.

The researchers looked (43) _________ at the sleep activity of the people in the study.

(44) ____________________________________________________________

_________________________________________ that many people do not experience if they get up early in the morning.

(45) _____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________. The findings may help answer other questions, such as why babies sleep so much. Scientists say (46) ______________________________________________________

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