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PAGE  PAGE 8 Compound Dictation Exercises (1) Around the world young people are spending (36) ___________ sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes Magazine (37) ____________ that at least fifty rock stars have (38) ____________ of between two million and six million dollars (39) ____________ year. “It doesn’t make much sense,” says Johnny Mathis, one of the (40) ____________ music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, in the 1950s. “Performers aren’t (41) ____________ this kind of money. In fact, nobody is.” But the rock stars’ admirers seem to (42) ____________ . Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for records. They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person. Some (43) ____________ think the customers are buying more than music. According to one theory, (44) _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________. There is no gulf between the audience and the performer. Every boy and girl in the audience thinks, “I could sing like that.” (45) __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________. Young people are glad to pay to worship a rock star because it is a way of worshipping themselves. Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang “American Pie.” McLean earned more than a million dollars from recordings of “American Pie.” Then, too, (46) _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________. Compound Dictation Exercises (2) A growing number of scientists insist that answers to the world’s problems will not come from a (36) ____________ array of electronics and machines. Instead, as they see it, solutions must (37) _____________ from a better understanding of the humans that drive t