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English Test December, 2015 2.5 Hours 150 Points Name:__________ School:__________ Part Ι: Listening Test (30MIN) Section 1 Spot Dictation Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage twice. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed—the planet, however, which we have (1) ________to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of (2) _ exploitation. This exploitation has reached such (3) _________that presently is appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be (4) ______before the end of the century. In our times, human science has mastered the deep (5) ________of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples. We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products. We can (6) ________the great grass cover of the western plains and pour (7) _______chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil. We can invent computers (8) ________processing ten million calculations per second. And why? To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap. Our manager