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模拟试卷九 SECTION 1 LISTENING TEST Part A Spot Dictation Direction: 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 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. We have all experienced days when everything (1) . A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to (2) . What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong (3) . It is as if a single unimportant event set up (4) . Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and (5) the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this (6) to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself (7) . You hang up hurriedly and (8) baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal (9) . As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, (10) bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong (11) , as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the (12) one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two ears happened to be a learner. She suddenly (13) and stopped her ear. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was (14) , the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was (15) alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them (16) the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic (17) . It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic (18) again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stra