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1、 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 doesnt make much sense,” says Johnny Mathis, one
2、of the (40) _ music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, in the 1950s. “Performers arent (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
3、 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 p
4、ay 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) _
5、.Compound Dictation Exercises (2)A growing number of scientists insist that answers to the worlds 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 the system and from a fuller (
6、38) _ of the limits and potential of the earths resources.What this means is an increased (39) _ on the life and earth sciences, on sociology, psychology, economics and even philosophy.More and more of the best minds in science, particularly young researchers, are being drawn into these (40) _ field
7、s.Industry officials are concerned by a (41) _ rate of innovation in technology. Patent applications by Americans have been (42) _ in the U. S. since 1971. Yet many scientists seem to be saying: The need for better televisions, bigger power plants and faster airplanes markers of rapid-fire technolog
8、ical creativity is becoming (43) _ at best. (44) _.All this is not to say that technological creativity will not play a critical role in solving energy and food shortages, or that (45) _.Where the real challenge lies is (46) _.Compound Dictation Exercises (3)London is the center of the international
9、 art market and Sothebys, which has its (36) _ there, is the worlds biggest and oldest seller of art and antiques. If you were lucky enough to own a priceless “Old Master”, an Impressionist, or a (37) _ antique, and you wanted to sell it, you would probably put it up for auction at Sothebys.Sothebys
10、 auctions are (38) _ by some of the worlds richest people, who spend millions of pounds on art and antiques each year. (39) _, the company is very proud of its status and its 250-year-old (40) _. But, earlier this year, that reputation came under threat, when a journalist (41)_ Sothebys staff of bri
11、nging art treasures to London illegally. If these (42) _ are true, they will severely damage Londons (43) _ as a center of the worlds art trade.As if that were not bad enough, (44) _ from European Union regulations. If passed in Britain, the EU laws would make London a much less attractive place to
12、purchase art treasures. Buyers and sellers would then look elsewhere for the best prices and could stop coming to London altogether.The problems began last year, (45) _. He made this allegations in a book and television program, which used hidden camera to film Sothebys staff. Watson says (46) _, and th
