Compound Dictation for Semaster 3.docVIP

Questions 1 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. He kept a diary, for his own pleasure. Because the days (1)______ by so quickly, he found it interesting to think of the past. Hed write and then go back and see how he had (2) ______his time, and with whom. He was (3) ______that his remarks were sometimes far from kind, but the people he wrote about were never going to read his writings, so what difference did it make? The current diary was usually on his desk, the (4) ______　ones on a shelf in his closet. And they were beginning to (5) room. He got older. His wife got older. They (6) ______deeper into their seventies without any sense of large changes but only of one day following another. Still, the days were full, pleasant, and worth (7) ______. So he went on writing his thoughts. (8) __________________________________________, along with his feelings about old age, his fear of dying, his declining strength, and his envy of the children that he saw running down the street. Though his wife had never felt the slightest desire to read his diary, she knew something was wrong (9) __________________________________________as carelessly as he did his opened mail. Once she saw where he had hidden the current diary, (10) __________________________________________. She didnt though, and put back the diary, exactly as it was before. Questions 11 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog. We use all sorts of services without thinking how we get them. But such services cost money. We pay for them through (11) ______. What would happen if everyone in a city (12) ______paying taxes? The water supply would stop. The streets might not be (13) ______. There would be no police force to protect people and (14) ______. The chief duty of every government is to protect persons and their property. More than three (15) ______of the money spent by our government is used for this purpose. The next (16) ______amount of public money goes to teach and train our citiz