SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

　　In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. ANSWER SHEET ONE

　　Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

　　Sleepwalking

　　The strange behavior of sleepwalkers have puzzled police, perplexed scientist and fascinated writers for centuries. There is an early (16) record of a somnambulist who wrote a novel in his sleep. The worlds (17) sleepwalker was supposed to have been an Indian, who walked 16 miles along a dangerous road. Sleepwalking is a (18) reality. What is certain about sleepwalking is that it is a    symptom of (19), which is a usually the (20) result of guilt, nervousness, worry or some other emotional (21).

　　One of the most common beliefs of sleepwalking is that it is dangerous or even (22) to waken the sleepwalkers. But this is one of the two mistaken beliefs. The other is that sleepwalkers are (23) to injury. Authorities on sleepwalking think that people will not do anything against their own moral (24). They also think sleepwalking itself is nothing to become alarmed about, but what may be very serious are the (25) that causes it.

　　PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION

　　The following passage contains ten errors .Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

　　For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in    the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end    of the line.

　　For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　EXAMPLE

　　When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit,

　　(1) an

　　it (never/) buys things in finished form and hangs

　　(2) never

　　them on the wall. When a natural history museum

　　wants an exhibition, it must often build it.

　　(3)exhibit

　　The German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　　pondered the question of how organisms develop in his scientific

　　studies of form and structure immature plants and animals, a field he

　　found and named morphology. His search for a single basic body plan

　　(26)

　　across all life-forms led him to think about the prevalence of repeating

　　(27)

　　segments in body structures. The spinal columns of fish, reptiles,

　　(28)

　　birds and mammals, for instance, all are made of long strings of

　　(29)

　　repeated vertebrae. Among invertebrates the growth of virtually

　　identical segments is how striking: in earthworms, for example, even

　　(30)

　　internal organs are repeated in serial segments. Likewise, the

　　abdomen of flies and other insects are segmented, as are the

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