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* * * 山东省滨州市沾化二中英语组 张兆建 Skill One : changing or correcting a text Listen to the tape and correct the following sentences. 1. Legs can be lengthened by up to 8cm. 2. Legs are made to grow 1mm per week. 3. The new bone is not as strong as the original bone. 4. A 45-year-old man died after trying to grow by 6cm. 5. Patients can’t do any exercise for three years. 6. It takes 14 months to increase your height by 12cm. 7. Age of patients: 16 to 55. 8. 5% of operations are unsuccessful. 9. Costs RMB185,000. 18cm every day A 35-year-old two 18 60 8% 8500 Tapescript : M: Hi, Catherine. What are you doing? C: Just going over our notes on height-increasing operations. M: Yes, it took us a long time to finish them. What’s the problem? C: I can’t read some of my writing, so perhaps we can go over the notes together so I can check for any mistakes. M: Yes, sure. I’ll try to remember what we said before. C: According to my notes , the doctors break the bones of your legs and them make them grow by about eight centimeters? M: I think you’ve got that wrong . The doctors can make them grow by about eighteen centimeters C: That’s one millimeter per week, right? M: No. Every day. C: Yes, I see. So, the bone is not as strong as the original? M: The bone is as strong as the original. C: Oh! I also wrote that a forty-five-year old man dies after trying to make his legs