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 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 stray dogs benefited from 19 , for they 20 what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days! Direction:ANSWER BOOKLETONLY ONCE