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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 新概念葵花宝典NO.12 2010/07/30 Dictation: Lesson 26 Wanted: a large biscuit tin ____________________________________________________________. Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we wants, ____________________________________________________. In their efforts to persuade us to buy this or that product, advertisers _______________________________________and have classified all our little weaknesses. Advertisers discovered years ago that all of us love to ________________________________________. An advertisement which begins with the magic word FREE can rarely go wrong. These days, advertisers not only offer free samples, but free cars, free houses, and free trips round the world as well. They devise hundreds of competitions which will enable us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to __________________________________________________ in this way. Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboard We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been _____________ strangers for years. The English language ___________________________________to describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called ‘a skeleton in the cupboard’. At some ___________ moment in the story, _____________________________________________. The reader’s _____________________ when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands. Quiz: With prices_______ so much, it is difficult for the school to plan a budget.(CET-6 03/1) Vibrating B. fluctuating C. fluttering D. swinging We are interested in the weather because it_________ us so directly what we wear, what we do, and even how we feel.(CET-4 91/6) Affects B. benefits C. guides D. effects You will see this product _______