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Dictation 24 College Life When students leave for college at an age 17 or 18, / many of them have never been away from home and their family. / The transition to greater freedom and responsibility may be difficult for them, / with no one to wake them up for breakfast or do their laundry, / and fewer classes to attend but larger amounts of homework. / Some students do not adjust successfully. / In the United States, where almost 70% of high school graduates enter college, / only a minority of these actually graduate. / College has many social attractions, / some of which can be distractions. / Sports, concerts, and parties can be very time-consuming. / The temptation to stay up too late at night is always present, / so self-discipline is an important lesson to learn. / In addition, many students have part-time jobs, especially in the US / where most students have cars and are expected to help their parents pay for tuition or college housing. / Dictation 25 MP3 Players Despite a cloud of controversy / and litigation over the legality of some web music sites, / online music files are apparently here to stay. / Many of those files are transferred from computers to more than 3.5 million portable MP3 players, / small as a walkabout radio, or even smaller. / Music fans have already downloaded an estimated 5 million copies of software programs that play computer files. / These files that use MP3 encoding currently are the predominant means of compressing music files online. / Many MP3 players look much like portable radio. / Others look like large pens or even watches. / Inside each player is a computer chip and memory / that can store and play compressed digital audio files / and will sometimes store other computer files as well. / Digital audio can be downloaded from various websites, / played on the home computer itself, transferred to one of these players, / or recorded onto CDs for permanent storage. / Dictation 26 TOEFL The TOEFL is an important test for non-native English speakers / who want to attend an American college or university. / TOEFL stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. / The Educational Testing Service is moving to end the use of the paper-and-pencil version of the TOEFL. / And on September 30th ETS stopped offering its existing computer test. / The new version is called the TOEFL Internet-Based Test. / The TOEFL measures the ability to read, write and understand English. / The new test represents about ten years of work by ETS. / The testing service redesigned it to measure not just knowledge of the language, / but the ability to communicate in English. / Each part of the test is worth a possible thirty points. / So the highest score on the TOEFL is one hundred twenty points. / Different colleges and universities require different minimum scores on the TOEFL / so be sure to find out the score requirements of the schools that interest you. / Dictation 27 Global Text Project Books are a high cost of higher education. / But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks / for students in developing countries. / The aim is to offer subjects that students may take / in their first few years at a university. / The books could be printed or read on a computer or copied onto a CD or DVD. / The Global Text Project is a new technology, / the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the Internet. / But only one or two people will be able to make the final edits in texts. / The project includes a committee of scholars, / mostly from developing countries, / to advice on required textbooks and their content. / The group’s first book on information systems is being tested in Indonesia. / Project organizers also want to offer textbooks in Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. / They are working with a translation company in the United States. / Dictation 28 Christmas Day Christmas Day, the 25th of December, / is the biggest festival celebrated in the Christian countries of the world. / Although everyone enjoys Christmas Day, it is particularly enjoyed by children, / who get very excited because of the presents they know they are going to receive. / Small children believe that their presents are brought by Father Christmas. / Father Christmas is a kind of old man who, the children are told, lives at the North Pole. / He travels through the sky on a sleigh which is pulled by deer and loaded with presents. / Stopping on the roof of house, he enters by climbing the chimney. / When small children go to bed on Christmas Eve, they hang a stocking at the end of their beds. / Their parents warn them not to try to look at Father Christmas, or he will not leave them anything. / When they wake, they find their stockings filled with presents. / Children are very excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early. / 本文来源：https://www.dywdw.cn/1790ec4955270722192ef7f1.html
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2024-03-14
