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Part III Listening Comprehension
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each
passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be
spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from
the four choices marked A), B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Besides private bills, there are also public bills that must be paid. Public bills are
paid for by the government. In turn, we get these services through taxes. What would
happen if everyone in the city stopped paying taxes? The water supply would stop.
Water might even become unclean and impure. The streets might not be cleaned.
There would be no police force to protect people and property. Schools would be
closed. People would become sick and diseases might spread. We would not want to
live in such a city. We all want pure water and food, clean streets and good schools.
We want the police to protect us from crime. The chief duty of every government is to
protect persons and property. More than three fourths of the money spent by our
government is used for this purpose. The next large amount of public money goes to
teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and
libraries. Public money is used to pay the teachers and all the public officials. Also, a
large amount of public funds is spent on roads.
The greatest part of the needed funds is raised by taxes. Tax is money that we all
must pay to support the government. The law orders us to pay taxes. We have no
choice in this matter. Almost everyone pays some tax in one form or another.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. How does the government pay for public bills?
27. According to the speaker, what would happen if nobody in the city paid
taxes?
28. Which of the following costs the largest amount of public money according
to the speaker?
Passage Two
America’s national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago,
but it has made a comeback. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is
considering the possibility of taking it off the Endangered Species List. Once, more
than fifty thousand pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, but by 1960 that
number had fallen below four hundred. The chief killer was the widely used DDT.
Fish soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on the shores, where bald eagles
feasted on them. DDT prevented eagle eggshells from thickening. The shells became
so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched. Fortunately, in 1972, a law was
passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. And since then,